beseeming
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Yet, still, had England said, “You’re free, Choose whom you will,” dear sir, to thee, For dress beseeming modest worth, I would have led our pilgrim forth.
From Cottage Poems by Patrick Brontë
Meekness is so beseeming every man, that it is even humanity itself.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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
Would ye know her? a woman, you shall eye her Strutting loftily, whiles she laughs a loud laugh Vast and vulgar, a Gaulish hound beseeming.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.
From Tales of Destiny by Edmund Mitchell
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