Even first-class Pullman passengers have, as a rule, something to put up with if they desire to be clean, and Colonist travelers are not expected to be endued with any particular sense of delicacy or seemliness.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
This meant then that their daughter had something particular to say to them, and it could not with any seemliness be put off longer.
"The Bridal March; One Day"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
There was a very particular seemliness in this-though I had not much time to think of it then.
"Oddsfish!"
Robert Hugh Benson