beseeming
Example Sentences
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The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.
From Tales of Destiny by Edmund Mitchell
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 Emerson Hough
"A bonny thing it is, and a beseeming, that I should be kept at the door half-an-hour, Captain Stanchells," said he, addressing the principal jailer, who now showed himself.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
Would ye know her? a woman, you shall eye her Strutting loftily, whiles she laughs a loud laugh Vast and vulgar, a Gaulish hound beseeming.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
I … did company these three in poor beseeming.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
