beseem

Example Sentences

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It would not beseem my insignificance to intrude upon him now.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert

Then the servant answered: "All this I know; but we have fared so ill in this house that mirth and laughter ill beseem us."

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

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

But now I see that thou hast not with the naming any gift to give me such as would beseem me to accept, wherefore he of us who hath must give to the other.'

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

They beseem quite normally the plainest of us all.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.