bemean

Example Sentences

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He was fighting for his life, and no eye could bemean that effort.

From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison

If I wanted to bemean myself, could n't I cast up somethin' you would n't like to be minded of?

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

“When I’ve done my dooty by her, as other people, whom I won’t bemean myself to name, oughter have done, Mister Jarker, I shall go, and not before,” said Mrs Sims.

From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville

Faith, I wadna sae bemean mysel' to get the king oot o' Whitehall—wha they tell me is no that ill to get, gin yin had the chance—and in muckle the same way as Tam Lindsay.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

You and me's in different walks of life, and it's my bounden duty to see as you don't bemean yourself.

From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)