beseeming

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It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

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

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.

Arise! from your dreaming, In bright Orange bowers, To duties beseeming, Your fame and past powers.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

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

From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope