She, partly as a sort of well-turned compliment to Alexander, partly out of sport, as the drinking went on, at last was carried so far as to utter a saying, not Misbecoming her native country's character, though somewhat too lofty for her own condition.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
If ladies prefer what is ugly and Misbecoming, the dressmakers have to make it.
"Routledge's Manual of Etiquette"
George Routledge
We will now repair to Newgate, it being the place where most of the great men of this history are hastening as fast as possible; and, to confess the truth, it is a castle very far from being an improper or Misbecoming habitation for any great man whatever.
"The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great"
Henry Fielding