beseem

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"The better then doth it beseem both the place and me," he replied.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

He sent new milk to the ladies and little wheaten cakes with limpid golden honey, as might beseem fastidious ladies' lips.

From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

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

Why, does not beseem us here to inquire.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison

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