beseeming

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She stood near the door of the great drawing-room of the Knollys mansion, her figure beseeming well its framing of deep hangings and rich tapestries.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.

From Tales of Destiny by Mitchell, Edmund

Willingly, noble lady, will we give you our escort,—the more so that this poor child will then have a friend with her beseeming her father's rank.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

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

A hope beseeming Marius; but, I fear, Too strange to have a short and good event.

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