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

Who art thou, he said, thou fine fellòw, Of thee I am in great fear, For the clothes thou wearest upon thy back, Might beseem a lord to wear.

From The Book of Brave Old Ballads by Gilbert, John, Sir

"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

For, by what cantrip it wad ill beseem a man to judge, she was hingin’ frae a single nail an’ by a single wursted thread for darnin’ hose.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis