beseemed

• No Prince stood up as beseemed: or only one, and he not a great one; Landgraf Wilhelm of Hessen, who, and his brave Widow after him, seemed always to know what hour it was. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• Without making any reply, he withdrew as speedily as possible, and, foregoing all manner of trial, and forgetting God and the honour of his house, he cruelly caused the hapless maiden to be hanged I cannot undertake to recount to you the grief of the Duchess; it was such as beseemed a lady of honour and a tender heart on beholding one, whom she would fain have saved, perish through trust in her own plighted faith. —  The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.)
• Although for a long time he showed me such looks as pointed to his wicked purpose, yet my heart, which only cares for you, understood nothing of them; and so at last he declared himself in words to which I returned a reply such as beseemed my condition and my chastity. —  The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.)
• However, although her reply was such as beseemed a Princess and a woman of true virtue, she readily pardoned his hardihood for the sake of his comeliness and breeding, and let him know that she bore him no ill-will for what he had said. —  The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.)
• Sadly I kissed her hand, when I knew she would tell me no more, and thanked her courteously for her tender words Indeed," said she, "I long to number thee soon among mine own sons, when thou leavest the monks thy tutors And I," said I, right gallantly, "will strive to be worthy of honours so high, of a race so noble Now, next morning we rode forth gaily, on our last stage, as we hoped, to Valognes, and a company of grooms and men-at-arms rode with us, such as beseemed my uncle's rank. —  The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven

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