beseem

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Those limbs upon that cold earth laid, Those tresses twined in single braid,829 The fast and woe that wear thy frame, Beseem not thee, O beauteous dame.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Therefore, Sylla, these daring terms unfit Beseem not thee before the capitol.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

No formal elegiacs fashioned coldly, Beseem the memory of that manly soul, Whose simple, downright spirit trod so boldly Life's most sequestered ways from start to goal.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 by Various

That's well, though better would white ignorance Beseem your brow, undesecrate before— Ay, when I left you!

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald