We shall be clothed with the personal beauty, refinement, and other graces which befit spouses of Jesus Christ and children of God.
See, therefore, that you endeavor to clothe your soul with those virtues which befit a spouse of Jesus Christ.
Then he went forth, to seek a minion who should befitthe entertainment, saying, 'O my God and my Master and my Lord, I beseech Thee to send me one worthy of this banquet and apt to carouse with me this day!
So needs must thou send him with me, that the marriage may be solemnized in her father's kingdom.
I've quaffed the cup of love for thee, unmixed and pure; So, if thou see me drunk, reproach me not nor chide.
When she heard his words, she wept and buffeted her face, knowing that Fate had gotten the better of her and that there was nothing for it but to put her trust in God the Most High.
A longer sermon would ill befit the time and I have fulfilled my purpose, if I have done right in choosing you.
This was that, since by Heaven's grace the forces of the enemy had been broken, it would illbefit Domitian, now that the war was practically over, to stand in the way of the other generals to whom the credit belonged.
And well do time and placebefit my mood Beneath the arms Of this embracing wood, a good man made His home, like Abraham resting in the shade Of Mamre's lonely palms.
Revile him not, the Tempter hath A snare for all; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall!
Then she brought out to him a phial and he looked at it and said to her, "Tell me thy daughter's name, that I may calculate her horoscope and learn the hour in which it will befit her to take medicine.
But Edward felt that it did not befitone so young to discuss ethics with his lord; and, changing the subject, he inquired, "How long did your lordship say you would be absent?
My lord cardinal, it would befit me ill to bandy words with you," replied Edward: "I should but fare the worse.
The death of President Faure in February last called forth those sincere expressions of sympathy which befit the relations of two Republics as closely allied by unbroken historic ties as are the United States and France.
Leon: The preparation is, they are taking down, And packing up the hangings, plate and Jewels, And all those furnitures that shall befit me When I lye in garrison.
And many a squire went with them, and many a footman strong, Well armèd, as should befit them, did unto the train belong.
Then again came the knight Iofreit, when he to the king had told The guise that should best befit him when he greeted the heathen bold.
All salams that befit and greetings that are meet from part of Sankharib, King of Assyria and Niniveh, and from his Wazir and Secretary Haykar unto thee, O glorious monarch, and salutations be betwixt me and thee.
Amongst others the King of Hind heard of me and sent to my father to invite me to his court, with offerings and presents and rarities such as befit royalties.
Thanks be to Allah ye be all sound and sane, yet actions such as these befit none but mad men or those possessed of an evil spirit.
A complete rededication to its ideals, its purposes and requirements on the part of all individuals and Assemblies, can alone befit such a nation-wide celebration.
Both wore the silver spurs of esquires, but their behaviour did not at all befit their rank; for they seemed bent on showing their contempt for the sports and all connected with them as offensively as possible.
Nay, I am mightily beholden to him for acting his part out and taking on himself that would scarce befit a gentleman of a company--impedimenta, as we used to say in the grammar school.
Honour would befit me quite as well as that old fellow, Prosper Colonna; and the Badgers would well become the Pope's scarlet and yellow liveries.
Behind the garden she and a very old woman had a house already prepared, and she had her furnish it nicely with a bed, as would befit Tirant.
It is our hope that we all shall be helped to achieve these things, which alone befit this sacred day.
That my tongue, my pen could thank thee were a hopeless task, nor can any praise of mine befit thine excellence.
The "AEneid" is rendered with a roughness which might better befit a translation of Ennius.
As Mr. Stevenson says, a man must view "his very trifling enterprise with a gravity that would befit the cares of empire, and think the smallest improvement worth accomplishing at any expense of time and industry.
Sobs are but a woman's weapons--tears befit a maiden's cheek.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "befit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
