beseeming

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Neither can they make good or evil, beseeming or not beseeming, what they list, but their commandments are to be examined by a higher rule.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

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)

Wofull Fredericke Were a beseeming Epitaph for me, The other tastes of too much soveraigntie.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Thus I complained, but Love unlocked his quiver, Took out the shaft, ordained my heart to shiver, And bent his sinewy bow upon his knee, Saying, "Poet, here's a work beseeming thee."

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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