I do, with all the deference which befits a gentleman when a lady holds forth on the virtues of her own sex.
In approaching the last scene of Katherine's life, I feel as if about to tread within a sanctuary, where nothing befits us but silence and tears; veneration so strives with compassion, tenderness with awe.
The Tragedians speak in lofty tones; anger befits the buskin of Tragedy; the sock of Comedy [1239] must be furnished from the manners of every-day life.
But it befits a young man who is the master of vast resources, to manifest his worth in the performance of some mighty act, that the Persians may fully know they have a man for their king.
And instead of sending earth and water, I will send you such a present as befits the occasion; but as for calling thyself our master, I say, go hang.
These are much less serious ballads, and the tone of stanza 5, which so ill befits the distressful situation, is perhaps owing to that stanza's having been transferred from some copy of one of these.
It befits not to ride with a leman light, When awaits my returning my own lady bright, My own wedded wife in fair Scotland.
I will nevertheless fight as befits one of my name, and I promise thee that when the day is done the Purbiyas shall lie around me like grass from the scythe.
Verily I shall have work in the morning, and it befits to be up early.
All that sort of thing smells of rank Judaism, and befits Pagan rather than Christian worship.
Wherefore, the course which it most befits you to take, is to withdraw before you are plunged so deep into the mire that you are not able to extricate yourself; and, indeed, the sooner the better.
And on this first visit I went with my father to see the works of Rembrandt, with some doubt and unbelief and prejudice, as befits Italian patriots.
Then he told them: "Sirs, His Majesty the emperor commands your lordships to rest here, and to be a little patient if you are not being treated as befits your worthiness.
Apply the spurs strongly and without mercy, as befits a knight.
I have a young slave who is able to do what I have taught her from the time she was an infant: to embroider all manner of things as befits young women.
And if thou wish to reach the perfection of love, it befits thee to set thy life in order.
Thus sweetly it befits us to receive this Lamb, prepared in the fire of charity upon the wood of the Cross.
If thou yet wishest the life of the world, it befits thee to wait long enough so that the way can be found of giving it to thee in a way that shall be for the honour of God and for thy good.
It ill befits that we poor miserable men should hold by another way than that held by the Sweet Primal Truth.
We have seen that we must seek the kingdom of Heaven prudently: now I answer you about the attitude we should hold toward the Holy Communion, and how itbefits us to take it.
I say, it befits us to receive that sweet Sacrament, because it is the food of souls without which we cannot live in grace.
I tell you, on behalf of Christ crucified, it befits you to achieve three chief things through your power.
It befits us then to go to the Temple, and there He is found.
And yet every work of ours ought to be done both without and with moderation: it befits us to love God without moderation, putting to that love neither limit nor measure nor rule, but loving Him immeasurably.
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
Such a voice befits the age, as we learn to know it in our books of history, far better than the light effusions of contemporary rhymsters.
Such a plan of action is the republic--the only one that befits the trying period of transformation.
If you display the dignity that befits the representatives of a great nation, you will gain esteem, applause, and assistance.
I am half afraid that you are in that demented state, which befits the wretch ordained to perish.
Rochecliffe, and to keep such a look-out as befits the place, where are lodged for the time the Fortunes of England.
Wolf blushed like a girl, but, after the violinist had waited a short time for the confirmation of his conjecture, he continued more gravely: "It ill befits me to intrude upon your secret.
I must leave the country which has become my home, the city where prejudice and enmity greeted me, and where I have now obtained the position that befits me.
They had not been crimped or curled, but were simple and smooth, as befits the wife of a North German clergyman.
It was done seriously, discreetly, as befits a mere neighbour at table.
To the stray visitors who dropped in he was distant but civil, as befits a man who must act his part, but all the time a growing uneasiness was gnawing at his heart and he looked past them to the outer door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "befits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
