beseeming

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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

Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Iesus Christ, as I can testifie he was.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard

And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave, beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Upon the scaffold, he behaved with the firmness which became a noble spirit, and the patience beseeming one who was reconciled to heaven.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

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