beseeming

Example Sentences

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I … did company these three in poor beseeming.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Time would come when M'tela would ceremoniously bring in his real present—assuredly magnificent as beseeming his power.

From The Leopard Woman by White, Stewart Edward

"My song is recompensed nobly," said Louise, shrinking back; "my nuts are sold to a good market; farther traffic, my lord, were neither befitting you nor beseeming me."

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

It was like a masquerade of rank and culture in the rags of misery, beseeming it as ill as an unsuitable part in a play.

From Footsteps of Fate by Couperus, Louis

Neither can they make good or evil, beseeming or not beseeming, what they list, but their commandments are to be examined by a higher rule.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George