How To Use Betimes In A Sentence

  • Phoebe contributed little to the talk, as a good deal of it was in Dutch and she felt sure that anything she might have to say would bear little weight with Corina, She offered more coffee, undertook to see that both her guests would be called betimes and asked diffidently if she could help Corina to pack. A Summer Idyll
  • According to clients'requests, Xian Yong can improve and produce products betimes with cheap prices.
  • he awoke betimes that morning
  • ‘There is no Terry Spencer here,’ I said, only to discover an apologetic police officer now asking for Mr Joseph, saying betimes: ‘We have a lot of reports.’
  • Up betimes, my wife having a mind to have gone abroad with me, but I had not because of troubling me, and so left her, though against my will, to go and see her father and mother by herself.
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  • Waves so high that they disappeared into clouds, gales that betimes lifted the boat from the very sea, rain and hail, all manner of precipitation.
  • A serious admonition to prepare for death and judgment, and to begin betimes, even in the days of our youth, to do so, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier. The Ambassadors
  • He rose betimes in the morning.
  • He rose betimes in the morning.
  • The prompt Paris morning struck its cheerful notes -- in a soft breeze and a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier. The Ambassadors
  • And it is good to begin betimes with children, to teach them, as they are capable, the good knowledge of the Lord, and to instruct them even when they are but newly weaned from the milk. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows aught, what is't to leave betimes?
  • Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows aught, what is't to leave betimes?
  • As a rule, he and his mates rose betimes and, clad in slippers and pajamas, raced up and down the decks to keep their muscles in hard order, before descending for the tubbing which is the matin duty of every self-respecting British subject. On the Firing Line
  • Those that will go abroad with Christ must begin betimes with him, early in the morning of their days, must begin every day with him, seek him early, seek him diligently. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • An exhortation to young people to begin betimes to be religious and not to put it off to old age (ver. 1), enforced with arguments taken from the calamities of old age (ver. 1-5) and the great change that death will make upon us, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Nonetheless, it s a subject about which I can get a little bit passionate betimes.
  • This brawniness and insensibility of mind, is the best armour we can have against the common evils and accidents of life; and being a temper that is to be got by exercise and custom, more than any other way, the practice of it should be begun betimes; and happy is he that is taught it early. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 111-120
  • Up very betimes and walked (my boy with me) to Mr. Cole’s, and after long waiting below, he being under the barber’s hands, I spoke with him, and he did give me much hopes of getting my debt that my brother owed me, and also that things would go well with my father.
  • When a day's work is to be done for God and souls it is good to begin betimes, and take the day before us. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book The Ambassadors
  • And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
  • Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to hear Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down to the Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily; and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
  • It is good to begin betimes with the necessary restraints of children from that which is evil, before vicious habits are confirmed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • As elsewhere in Canto 2, here the occasion for elegy is young male loveliness dead betimes: "Thou art gone, thou lov'd and lovely one,/Whom youth and youth's affection bound to me" (st. 'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_
  • Did Monsieur your father guess how Andrea's affections have "-- I caught the word" miscarried "betimes, and substituted --" gone against his wishes, his opposition is not a thing to be doubted. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
  • His is indeed a calling of skill, not to wait for the cries of pain, but recognise betimes a sick body not yet conscious of its sickness.
  • People Rise Betimes to Quaff the Health-Giving Waters in Central Park.
  • After playing a little upon my new little flageolet, that is so soft that pleases me mightily, betimes to my office, where most of the morning. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.
  • Up pretty betimes, but yet I observe how my dancing and lying a morning or two longer than ordinary for my cold do make me hard to rise as I used to do, or look after my business as I am wont.
  • And another answered, ‘The jackanape will be here betimes the morn.’ Redgauntlet
  • Trouble is oppressive to the heart; yet often it proves a source of help and salvation to the children of men, to everyone who heeds it betimes.
  • They concluded that his resurrection would be his entrance upon his kingdom, and therefore were resolved to put in betimes for the best place; nor would they lose it for want of speaking early. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • As she drew nigh, the arch-fiend whispered him to condense into small compass and drop into her tender bosom a germ of evil that would be sure to blossom darkly soon, and bear black fruit betimes.
  • If the calamities of age will be such as are here represented, we shall have need of something to support and comfort us then, and nothing will be more effectual to do that than the testimony of our consciences for us that we begin betimes to remember our Creator and have not since laid aside the remembrance of him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Probably, had the black not killed the poor gogobera, we should have been aroused betimes in the morning; as it was, the man who was on watch at that time did not think it necessary to call us till the sun was above the horizon. Twice Lost

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