beseeming

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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

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

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 Ellis, Robinson

And blush not, lad, if I guess that to you we all owe this meeting; 'twere a bravery well beseeming your blood.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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