beseems

• “We may find it difficult to maintain that the Episcopate suffered no loss in its sacred dignity from his public conduct, or that his spirituality and piety in private life were such as beseems a”

  Studies in the Book of Common Prayer

• “Moreover, the eunuch gave him a pair of bath-clogs, and he put them on; after which in came eunuchs and slaves and supported him, laughing the while, to the outer hall, which he found hung and spread with magnificent furniture, such as beseems none but kings; and the pages hastened up to him and seated him on the divan.”

  The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II

• “But it is the numen and staccatum in his action that define the import, the fact that he does exactly what beseems a hero -- what he should do -- and that the cry embodies this as a choice, an act of will -- what he would do.”

  On the Sublime

• ““And wherefore carp at my garments, brother Halbert?” said the Abbot; “it is the spiritual armour of my calling, and, as such, beseems me as well as breastplate and baldric becomes your own bosom.””

  The Abbot

• “But fare you well, for I must go, as beseems me, to the burial of the best chief the clan ever had, and the wisest captain that ever cocked the sweet gale (bog myrtle) in his bonnet.”

  The Fair Maid of Perth

• “Quebec and Malta lay the cloth for dinner, while Woolwich, serving, as beseems him, under his father, keeps the fowls revolving.”

  Bleak House

• ““For it ill beseems illustrious bards to scold like market-women.””

  Symposium

• “There is no denying that this desire beseems the girl who has earned the epithet of an “up-to-date young lady,” bestowed on me by the Duchess in jest, and which my father has approved.”

  Letters of Two Brides

• “Yet, for again I come to the former story, beseems not”

  Poems and Fragments

• “Now in good truth Melanthiusi shalt thou watch all night, lying on, a soft bed as beseems thee.”

  Essays and Miscellanies

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