And now the young lord came galloping round the corner, attired in a green velvet doublet with red silk sleeves, and a grey hat with a heron's feather therein; summa, gaily dressed as beseems a wooer.
Thus to men cast in that heroic mould Came empire such as Spaniard never knew, Such empire as beseems the just and true; And at the last, almost unsought, came gold.
A pious belief, Cilli, such as well beseems a woman, but very ill beseems a man who is expected and rightly to understand and respect the world and the laws which regulate the world.
Scots, as beseems you well, being strangers in this sweet land of France"; and her face lighted up as she spoke the name she loved, and my heart worshipped her with reverence.
Rutherford and Douglas, go take him to quarters, and see that to-morrow he is clad as beseems a man of my command.
The Duke received the herald, and made as if he would hear him as beseems a gentleman under challenge.
Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence And give them burial as beseems their worth.
No blush at the avowal you dared buy A girl of age beseems your granddaughter, Like ox or ass?
It follows plain Who set him there to grow beholds repealed His primal law: his ordinance proves vain: And what beseems a king who cannot reign, But to drop sceptre valid arm should wield?
Let her be sent for, And honourably attended, asbeseems Her that we make our queen.
Gods the debate, norbeseems the upbraiding of anger.
Now I return to my place, nor go in to the sight of Achilles, Since it beseems not Immortal of lineage divine to reveal him Waiting with manifest love on the frail generation of mankind.
Beseems it me to offer such persuasion To thee, who like the fix'd star of the pole Wert all I gazed at on life's trackless ocean; Oh, what a rent thou makest in my heart!
And so he heaped A high broad pyre without the city wall: Upon the height thereof that warrior-queen They laid, and costly treasures did they heap Around her, all that well beseems to burn Around a mighty queen in battle slain.
Beseems not That longer thou deal death unto thy foes, Lest an Olympian God abase thy pride.
The great war-travail of the spear beseems True heroes.
Our life is short; Beseems not then in grief to live.
It beseems thee ill to fight against us, or to throw a spear into our army; for here are four of thy brothers.
Sure, this beseems a race of laggard wit, Unwarned by those plain letters scrawled on air.
So now go I to Phthia, for better by much it beseems me Homeward go with my beaked ships now, and I hold not in prospect, I being outraged, thou mayst gather here plunder and wealth-store.
I will not have any man, nor Brynhild's brother marry: it beseems me not with Budli's son to increase a race, or life enjoy.
This alone Hogni for answer gave: "It beseems us not so to do, by the sword to break sworn oaths, oaths sworn, and plighted faith.
Full well I know how to defend me, full well know I what beseems The maid of a knight's devotion, the maid of the poet's dreams!
Both cunning and skill have I, And tho' I were loath to vaunt me, yet I ne'er to this life did fly 430 For fear, as beseems a maiden!
Such speech, I ween, beseems not the man who in serving thee Hath comfort found!
To whom in anger Menelaus thus: "O Father Jove, how ill this vaunting tone Beseems this braggart!
To whom Earth-shaking Neptune thus replied: "Juno, thine anger carry not too far; It ill beseems thee.
Now then, put forth thy might; beseems it not To stand thus idly with thine arms in hand: Loose thou the horses; or do thou the men Despatch, and to my care the horses leave.
But thou, Achilles, curb thy noble rage; A heart implacable beseemsthee not.
I now return, nor to Achilles' eyes Will I appear; beseemsit not a God To greet a mortal in the sight of all.
Therefore, children, it beseems you to think and speak of so sublime a subject with awe and dread and discretion, and to listen with attentive ears and a pious heart, with love and not from frowardness.
But it beseems thee not to draw a card At such a game.
Tis not unfitting For you, Count Piccolomini, to feel So tenderly--my brother it beseems To show himself forever great and princely.
It beseems thee not to oppose his commands and frustrate his will.
Verily it beseemsthat all of England's sons have come forth for the fight.
Beseems that Her Grace cares naught for the courtiers.
Then riding up to the prisoners, he shouted to Joshua: "You once commanded many soldiers, and look more stiff-necked now than beseems you and me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beseems" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
