beseeming
Example Sentences
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Bluff commonsense, which proffers such homely wisdom with beseeming pathos would of course be morally indignant at the opponent who attempted to show that the apple did not make the apple tree.
From Selected Essays by H. J. Stenning
Meekness is so beseeming every man, that it is even humanity itself.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
"A bonny thing it is, and a beseeming, that I should be kept at the door half-an-hour, Captain Stanchells," said he, addressing the principal jailer, who now showed himself.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments To wield old partisans.
From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux
This, I say, is not beseeming those that are in Christ Jesus.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
