bemean

Example Sentences

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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)

Surely we need no further bemean and befoul ourselves!

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

He would bemean himself sufficiently to overlook Frau's caddishness.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver

I hain't blind and I hain't deef, and I can't holp seein' the way she does, and a hearin' her bemean you about me all the time nearly.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

“Which you’d best fetch this gentleman a light, Master Antony,” said cook; “for I ain’t going to bemean myself.”

From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville