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"Beseem" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Such conduct does not beseem you.
"Fie, cousin!" said Elizabeth; "such thoughts ill beseem the nearest kinsman of the future queen of England."
This inn beseems well for a weary wayfarer.
To ſay the truth, this fact was infamous, / And ill beſeeming any common man; / Much more a Knight, a Captaine, and a Leader.
VVith that, her angels Face, vnſeene afore, / Like to the ruddie morne appeard in ſight, / Deawed with ſiluer drops, through ſweating ſore, / But ſomewhat redder, then beſeem'd aright, / Through toyleſome heate and labour of her weary fight.
Alt[ea]. Shee would faine marry. / 1. Tis a proper calling, / And well beſeemes her yeares, who would ſhe yoke with?
The Nationall Aſſembly of this Kirk, from which we have our Commiſſion, did promiſe in their thankſgiving for the many favours expreſſed in Your Majeſties Letter, their beſt endeavours to keep the people under their charge, in unity and peace, and in loyalty and obedience to Your Majeſtie and Your Laws, which we confeſſe is a duty well beſeeming the preachers of the Goſpel: […]
Now they can no more hear thy ghittern's tune, / For venturing syllables that ill beseem / The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.
My good damsel, you are now, I think, out of danger; it would ill beseem you, so young and comely, to go further with one not old enough to be your protector, so, in God's name, depart quickly, […]
The girl is born pretty—and a rebel. […] The mouth, artfully carmined to allure, beseems the red door of a white sepulchre.
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It beseems you not to grumble thus.
Giue me their Bodyes, that I may beare them hence / And giue them Buriall, as beſeemes their worth.
VVell Mortimer, ile make thee rue thoſe vvords. / Beſeemes it thee to contradict thy King?
Sad pauſe, and deepe regard beſeemes the ſage, / My part is youth and beates theſe from the ſtage.
Should wee hereupon frame a rule that what forme of ſpeech or behauiour ſoeuer is fit for ſuters in a Princes Court, the ſame and no other beſeemeth vs in our prayers to Almightie God?
King Richard ſeeking to put his courage out of doubt, brought his judgement into queſtion, being more prodigall of his perſon then beſeemed a Generall. One wound he received, but by loſing his bloud he found his ſpirits, and laid about him like a mad-man.
[Nature] hath purvey'd / From all the Elements her choiceſt ſtore / To treat thee as beſeems, and as her Lord / VVith honour, only deign to ſit and eat.
"Lady," said Cedric, "this beseems not; were further pledge necessary, I myself, offended, and justly offended, as I am, would yet gage my honour for the honour of Ivanhoe.["]
Trust me, sir, I have already laughed more than beseems my cloth, at your Homeric confabulation with yonder ragamuffin General of the rebels. One other such fit of merriment, and I must throw off my clerical wig and band.
Man acts as man must: God as God beseems.
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