meetness
Example Sentences
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The rose is the fairest of earthly flowers— It is all of beauty and of sweetness— So my dear maid, in the heavenly bowers, Excels in beauty and in meetness.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 by Various
The Daffodil most dainty is, To match with these in meetness; The Columbine compared to this, All much alike for sweetness.
From Language of Flowers by Greenaway, Kate
Surely we should desire a meetness for our inheritance as well as a title to it.
From The Theology of Holiness by Clark, Dougan
“And what meetness is in setting the like of me in a chair that would well hold Charlemagne and his twelve Peers?” demanded the little girl, laughing.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah
"I have thought so sometimes lately, but I wished so much to be one that, in seeking to fulfil the wish, I may have overlooked the meetness."
From Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Alma, Maude
