beseeming

Example Sentences

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You see how much those saints in the Old Testament were in this and certainly they had more excellent and beseeming thoughts of God than we.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

This is a better cue, far more beseeming princes than boyish tears, and all the outward misery of woe, a tattered garment and dishevelled locks.

From The Rise of Iskander by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

For many of them breathe of a national spirit not beseeming a subject nation, and have been suppressed for many years.

From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Boettiger, Louis A.

Thus I complained, but Love unlocked his quiver, Took out the shaft, ordained my heart to shiver, And bent his sinewy bow upon his knee, Saying, "Poet, here's a work beseeming thee."

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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