meetness

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These the deep, tender records, Sacred in all their meetness, That, wakening purest fancies, Soften us with their sweetness; As, gathered where flickering fagots burn, We welcome the holy season's return.

From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Schauffler, Robert Haven

“There is meetness in all things,” said the old lady, picking up her distaff.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah

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

"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

Did they sit in that dim sweetness Of attained love's after-calm, Marking not the world—its meetness, Marking Time not, nor his fleetness, Only happy, palm to palm?

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin