Rockley had betaken himself to his counting-house hours before.
Randal and his friends had betaken themselves, luckily, the day before, to the Snowy River, or there might have been murder done.
And in the fierce battle of the Eleventh Book, Eris alone is present to enjoy it, while all the other deities, inhibited from action by Jupiter, have betaken themselves to their several abodes on Olympus.
The little conventional figure had given over the contemplation of Parisian styles andbetaken herself to the absorbing pages of a novel which she read through smoked glasses.
He soon ascertained that they had been starved out of this tract of country, and had betaken themselves to the buffalo region, whither he now shaped his course.
Had we consulted our own peace and safety only, we should have betaken ourselves to Germany; but had we done that, it would have been a desertion of our brethren, who look to us for leading and guidance.
While Coligny had been accomplishing his wonderful march round France, La Noue, who had been exchanged for Strozzi, had betaken himself to La Rochelle.
But not so: they came in presently, having failed to get near the brute, which had betaken itself to a steep craggy height.
The shikarries went to scout, and returned with the provoking information, that they had watched the ibex which had betaken themselves to a distant and inaccessible portion of the mountain.
Tell me,' he continued, after a pause, 'whither has Ulpius betaken himself?
The return of the robbers had produced even a more vivid feeling of affright than their first appearance; and the people of the plantation-- white as well as black--had betaken themselves to places of concealment more permanent than before.
Tyndarus has probably betaken himself to some corner of the stage, and Aristophontes misses him from his former position.
Whither am I to say, now, that that man has betaken himself from the house out of doors?
The minor prophet had betaken himself again to his work, delving deeper, and throwing slow spadeful after spadeful to the surface.
Many of the neighbors, driven from their homes, had betaken themselves to his inclosure, and when he went, he found the salmon-fishers still carrying families thither.
He must have been a good way toward that point, however, to have thus betaken himself to denial.
It was but a few moments, and the thought that roused him was: could she have betaken herself to her old lodging at Owlkirk?
He assumed that the dog had abandoned his caprice of being outside his master's door, and had betaken himself to his usual haunts in the basement rooms and passages of the house.
In a few minutes, he saw the old beadsman, who he thought had betaken himself to his quarters at Pittenweem, come forth, in the company of a young woman rolled up in a cloak.
All was again still: the bats had again betaken themselves to the walls and the roof, and the sound of a cricket might have been heard throughout the extent of the dreary chamber.
By the middle of August we were before New York, whither Mr. Howe had brought his army that had betaken itself to Halifax after its inglorious expulsion from Boston.
Had he not betaken himself elsewhere--and that with her right good-will?
What is to become of so great a multitude of pious men, who havebetaken themselves to voluntary exile in that country?
He was not seen by any one here; and indeed I have no doubt but that he has betaken himself to one who is likely to bring him greater gain.
Very easily could we have left our horses, and betaken us into the deepest parts of the bottomless shaking bogs, where no man could have followed us.
She also told me (which I much yearned to know), that the Duchrae had at last been turned out, and that old Anton had betaken himself to the hills.
And finding himself in the neighbourhood to which these people had betaken themselves, he spared no pains, but with much and sore foot-travel he found them out, and entered into conference with them.
Sandy has betaken himself to his great oak on the border of the policies, where with his skill in forest craft he had built himself a platform among the solidest masses of the leaves.
Most of our Galloway men had betaken themselves home, and they that had come out of Lanarkshire and Ayr were the greater part of the scanty company.
Rumour said that Botha had betaken himself to Vryheid to seek rest and change of scene for himself and his hunted horde.
Beyers, a troublesome personage, had betaken himself to a fertile valley in the region of Pietersburg.
And some had betakenthemselves to vow of living like deer.
Nahusha said, 'Let him who has stolen thy stalks live in domesticity after having betaken himself to the vow of mendicancy!
Thou, O son, wilt rise from joy to greater joy in consequence of thy having betaken thyself to the duty of making gifts The man of intelligence (who practises this duty) certainly rises from joy to greater joy.
The retreat to which Mahadeva had betaken himself also abounded with celestial flowers and blazed with celestial rays of light.
Oppressed by the heat, I had betaken myself to the shade of a tree!
The poor fox, with his last gasp of strength, had betaken himself to the thicket before the door, and there the hounds had killed him, at the very spot on which Aby Mollett had fallen.
The Highland settlers had betaken themselves for protection to Fort Douglas, and in their Gaelic tongue made sad complaint.
Happily families were in the Fort, to which they had betaken themselves in opposition to the affectionate remonstrances of the native officers, who said it was a slur on their fidelity!
Whole tribes have for generations followed theft as a profession, and have betaken themselves to honest work only when compelled by finding their occupation perilous.
With surprise and a little concern Lucia Harden learnt that the rather extraordinary young man, Mr. Savage Keith Rickman, had betaken himself to an hotel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "betaken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
