beseeming

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A whole cart-load of proofs was tendered as evidence; and the culprit, as was beseeming, was brought into court in a large tub.

From The Talking Beasts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Words full of worth, beseeming noble minds: The very balsamum to mend my woes.

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

"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 Mee, Arthur

Wofull Fredericke Were a beseeming Epitaph for me, The other tastes of too much soveraigntie.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

There was something of Effie's former humour in her practically answering the question by a gentle pinch, more beseeming the fingers of a fairy than of a ghost.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir