beseem

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Does it beseem a grown-up man like you to be as disobedient as a capricious child?

From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r

There she stood With such a gentle pleasure in her looks As might beseem a river-nymph's soft eyes Gracing a bridal of the race whose flocks Were pastured on the borders of her stream.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Messire, I have no mind to assume any dispute with you; yet you must be aware that it would ill beseem any one of true knightly courage to draw aside and to give you way.

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard

"Ay, love! but here fall more drops,—more and more;—these showers are longer than beseem the April, and pertain not to the June."

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

"Sir," said she, "it will not beseem me to wear a knight's garment."

From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown