beseeming

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Bluff commonsense, which proffers such homely wisdom with beseeming pathos would of course be morally indignant at the opponent who attempted to show that the apple did not make the apple tree.

From Selected Essays by Stenning, H. J.

This, I say, is not beseeming those that are in Christ Jesus.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

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

Yet, still, had England said, “You’re free, Choose whom you will,” dear sir, to thee, For dress beseeming modest worth, I would have led our pilgrim forth.

From Cottage Poems by Brontë, Patrick

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