Verb (used with object) : conduct that beseems a gentleman. From Dictionary.com.
She clad her and her handmaids with care, as did beseem them. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
"How might it beseem us to fight with you?" spake Gernot anew. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
This would still beseem all doughty knights at high festal tides. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
"Sir," said she, "it will not beseem me to wear a king's garment.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
To the twain she said, that weeping did beseem her and naught else better. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
But Zal cried, “Not so, O fair one, it would beseem me ill to do thee hurt.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Epic of Kings] Reference
Fair knight, said that knight, it would beseem a knight to joust and to fight on horseback. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
When that any gan gain this and chooseth one who doth beseem him, naught availeth so greatly for woe of heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Now, whether such a will and purpose as this beseem the wisdom and goodness of our Saviour, let the reader judge. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
“If thou wish for handsome stuffs, I will show them to thee; for I have wares that beseem persons of every condition.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
CXXVIII: Say: Doth it beseem a man while claiming. From Wordnik.com. [Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh] Reference
And deemest thou it can now beseem me to dwell beneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III.] Reference
A lady, whom it might beseem high Jove himself to love. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2] Reference
It would ill beseem us to treat Milton with generalities. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
Maids should never touch matters which do not beseem them!. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Scarcely they beseem a warrior, and a warrior cannot please!. From Wordnik.com. [Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse] Reference
"By no means which might not beseem the son of a brave man?" said. From Wordnik.com. [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference
Her floating robes, her holly crown, beseem her queenly charms. '. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference
We have not taught him (Muhammad) poetry,16 nor would it beseem him. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
Would it beseem an honest and shamefaced maid if I called him back to me?. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Thy majesty and may well beseem the seat of the revelation of Thy oneness. From Wordnik.com. [Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá] Reference
Say: Doth it beseem a man while claiming to be a follower of his Lord, the. From Wordnik.com. [Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh] Reference
And it does not beseem the wife of a Roman noble to accept new fashions in religions. From Wordnik.com. [Balthasar and Other Works - 1909] Reference
And they beseem you well3 when ye fetch them home and when ye drive them forth to pasture. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
Send down, moreover, upon Him and them such of Thy wondrous mercies as may well beseem Thy highness. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers and Meditations] Reference
Better would it beseem thee to hide this adventure, lest thy cheeks have cause to blush because of me. From Wordnik.com. [Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People] Reference
S: And it did not beseem your Lord to have destroyed the towns tyrannously, while their people acted well. From Wordnik.com. [Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side] Reference
Now, The Giant did not join the onslaught on the merchant's supper, that did not beseem his dignity as heir of the. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
Nor will the shield, embossed with the form of the great globe, beseem a dastard left hand, and one formed for theft. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference
"Cease, my lord," said Hastings, white with suppressed anger; "these references beseem not the councils of grave men.". From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
"If thou wish for handsome stuffs, I will show them to thee; for I have wares that beseem persons of every condition.". From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Katharine will return in a moment, and it does not beseem gentlemen, much less officers, to keep a lady waiting, you know. From Wordnik.com. [For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution] Reference
Of course, I have nothing to say against my daughter -- she's my own uprearing, so it would ill beseem me to run her down. From Wordnik.com. [Frances Kane's Fortune] Reference
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