I walked a while on the pavement but a subtle, well-known scent-that of a cigar-stole from some window I saw the library casement open a handbreadth I knew I might be watched thence so I went apart into the orchard.
The east had its own charm or fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon but she was yet beneath the horizon. Where the sun had gone down in simple state-pure of the pomp of clouds-spread a solemn purple, burning with the light of red jewel and furnace flame at one point, on one hill-peak, and extending high and wide, soft and still softer, over half heaven. It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:-“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. I watched her drop asleep, and when I left her, I sought the garden.
On Midsummer-eve, Adèle, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun. The hay was all got in the fields round Thornfield were green and shorn the roads white and baked the trees were in their dark prime hedge and wood, full-leaved and deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue of the cleared meadows between. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.īehind came Sir Nigel himself, with Lady Loring upon his arm, the pair walking slowly and sedately, as befitted both their age and their condition, while they watched with a smile in their eyes the scrambling crowd in front of them.A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land. His eyes were bright and searching, with something of menace and of authority in their quick glitter, and his mouth was firm-set and hard, as befitted one who was wont to set his face against danger. (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) I wish to remind you that it was you who first said to me, with that discretion I respect in you-with that foresight, prudence, and humility which befit your responsible and dependent position-that in case I married Miss Ingram, both you and little Adele had better trot forthwith.īut these are not thoughts befitting me I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world. (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) The youth was not clad in monastic garb, but in lay attire, though his jerkin, cloak and hose were all of a sombre hue, as befitted one who dwelt in sacred precincts. Verbs of being, having, spatial relationsĪgree check correspond fit gibe jibe match tally (be compatible, similar or consistent coincide in their characteristics)
This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!
Present simple: I / you / we / they befit.
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