Immortal hate befits not the mortal I feel myself to have become.

We know well the sort of robe that befits her dignity, and no doubt it is this contrast that makes the trial of her present humiliation more difficult for us to bear.

Then up spake Will Scarlet, "Let us give him a golden chain to hang about his neck, such as befits one of his blood, and also golden spurs to wear at his heels.

But now she seemed lacking in the pride that befits the part.

By every sign of strength and martial power, They think him Rustem in his direst hour; On Káús now his proud defiance falls, Scornful to him the stripling warrior calls: "And why art thou misnamed of royal strain? What work of thine befits the tented plain?

Papa will only have to carry himself proudly, as befits the head of a dynasty.

"Dear, sunny head that lights my darkened way With its bright, golden glory, let me seek A crown that well befits it for my quest.

On such occasions he is marvellously clad, as befits the gallant that he really is, but this morning he wore a faded shirt and one of his suspender cords behind was fastened with a nail instead of a button.

I have not yet so much gravity as befits a philosopher; for I do not yet feel confidence in what I have learned and in what I have assented to.

Because I think it befits me, while the play (sport) lasts, to join in it.

[Mr. Stephen Gwynn has made the following translation for me: "Most eloquent Poet: though I know well such epithet befits orators rather than poetsand yet, Most eloquent!

The industrious youth who operates upon it has evidently some notion of the measured and regular motion that befits the tongues of well-disciplined and conservative bells.

The controversy has begotten no little bitterness of feeling; but none is shown in Mr. Tyndall's volume, which is throughout written in the truest spirit of science,with the earnest frankness that becomes a seeker of truth, and the dignity that befits a lover of it.

Many people see ghosts; Our Square is well haunted, as befits its ancient and diminished glories.

I know not thatbut joy is power, However short it last; And joy befits the present hour, If sadness fits the past.

And indeed, I think that the poets, as is their custom, corrupt the minds of young men by telling them that Zeus chained Prometheus to Caucasus for his theft; seeing that it befits such a ruler, as I take the Father of gods and men to be, to know that his subjects can only do well by means of his bounty, and therefore to bestow it freely, as the kings of Persia do, on all who are willing to use it in the service of their sovereign.

Our holy ancient writings say it is No sin deceit to conquer by deceit; And hence fail not to send immediate word That Bukka should to-morrow eve expect Thee as befits a woman of thy rank, And with a hundred maidens in his tent.

He probably knows by name at least three-quarters of his regiment, and is on pleasant terms with his staff and the men in the ranks, and yet maintains a proper dignity, such as befits his official rank.

"No, my footgear is not noisy, as befits a sickroom; but then my steps are not sprightly either, so you might have heard me slouching across the floor if you had not been so absorbed in the matter in hand.

We may be stern and unbending in the punishment of crime, as befits our masterful race, but we hold the scales of justice with even and impartial hand.

'Such conduct becomes a man,' means, 'such conduct befits him.'"Hart's Gram., p. 116.

The following Letter is a Complaint of a Young Lady, who sets forth a Trespass of this Kind with that Command of herself as befits Beauty and Innocence, and yet with so much Spirit as sufficiently expresses her Indignation.

It befits me to adorn myself with the symbol of youthful innocence, since I now wander in Nature's Paradise.

Troops with startlingly pink faces (one would not have noticed this yesterday) rolled over the girder bridge between churning motors and bubbling camels, and the whole long-coated loose-sleeved Moslem world was awake and about its business, as befits sensible people who pray at dawn.

The Cyprian came to thy cradle, When thou wast little and small, And said to the nurse who rocked thee "Fear not thou for the child: "She shall be kindly favoured, 5 And fair and fashioned well, As befits the Lesbian maidens And those who are fated to love.