unmeet

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This methinks he perceived, and he set him to reason with me, that the command of holy Church sanctified the act done for her service, which otherwise had been perchance unmeet to be done.

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.

And lo! upon a little steed, unmeet for such a course, Appeared the honoured veteran; but weak seemed man and horse.

From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard

Rejecting the heavy shoes, as unmeet for waxed floors, and the shinguards, he rolled the rest of the uniform in his slicker and tied it behind his saddle.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

With Ráma's might unmeet to vie, O'ermastered thou wilt quickly die.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

For Sweden’s Nightingale so sweet, Their fellowship had been unmeet, The sawdust underneath whose feet       Hath been the Drama’s sepulchre.”

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John