Sentence example with the word 'beseemed'

beseemed

Last update: August 4, 2015


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He therefore took counsel merely with his interest as a temporal prince, threw in his lot with France, supported the duke of Nevers in the Mantuan Succession, and, under stress of ' fear of Habsburg supremacy, suffered himself to be drawn into closer relations with the Protestants than beseemed his office, and incurred the reproach of rejoicing in the victories of heretics.   [Please select]

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To her it was part of the entertainment that upon this last night they conducted themselves as beseemed her boyish masquerading.   [Please select]

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His dress was snow-white, as beseemed a priest, but there were patches and rents to be seen here and there.   [Please select]

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Furthermore, he knew how to live on very little; he was unmarried; and he felt a certain ardor which beseemed his age and gifts.   [Please select]

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Aye, and it would have well beseemed this old man to die, like the great Athenian, at a mirthful wedding-feast.   [Please select]

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His eyes had sparkled with boyish glee when he first caught sight of the friend from whom he had been separated several weeks, but to the stranger he wished to assume the bearing which beseemed a king.   [Please select]

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Rilla, who in spite of Jims, had been trying her best to look rapt and romantic, as beseemed a war bridesmaid, gave up the hopeless attempt, and devoted her energies to choking down untimely merriment.   [Please select]

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