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Example sentences for "betimes"

Lexicographically close words:
beti; betid; betide; betided; betideth; betoken; betokened; betokeneth; betokening; betokens
  1. The hilltops are free: the hilltops are open: from their peaks we can catch betimes some crimson glimpses of the sunrise and the morning.

  2. DOWN by the streamlet in the Frying Pan, in the heavy clay soil of the bank, I see this morning the flower-scapes of the coltsfoot are lifting betimes their curious bent heads.

  3. This world has been betimes visited by celestial beings.

  4. God really sent the Holy Spirit fire upon the honest efforts of men, and wonders were accomplished betimes in the name of Jesus.

  5. Up betimes rose Peter, seized an axe, hammer and saw which he had placed by his bedside, and hied him to the garret.

  6. Here, in a substantial family chaise, setting forth betimes to take advantage of the dewy road, come a gentleman and his wife with their rosy-cheeked little girl sitting gladsomely between them.

  7. Our Commissioners for the treaty set out this morning betimes down the river.

  8. Therefore I fear me to take this enterprise upon me, that I shall not come again betimes to this justs.

  9. And then she said unto Beaumains, Why followest thou me thou kitchen boy, cast away thy shield and thy spear and flee away, yet I counsel thee betimes or thou shalt say right soon, Alas!

  10. My son, Bethink thee now betimes and save thy soul.

  11. Up betimes to write fair my last night's paper for the Duke, and so along with Sir W.

  12. Up and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich thither, making an end of the "Adventures of Five Hours," which when all is done is the best play that ever I read in my life.

  13. Up betimes and to my office, and there we sat all the morning and dispatched much business, the King, Duke of Yorke, and Sir W.

  14. Betimes to bed, my wife also being all this day ill in the same manner.

  15. Up betimes to the settling of my last month's accounts, and I bless God I find them very clear, and that I am worth L5700, the most that ever my book did yet make out.

  16. Up betimes and by water to the Cockepitt, there met Sir G.

  17. Thence toward London and home, and I to the office, where I did much, and betimes to bed, having had of late so little sleep, and there slept 16th.

  18. Up betimes and did much business before office time.

  19. Up very betimes and to attend the Duke of York by order, all of us to report to him what the works are that are required of us and to divide among us, wherein I have taken a very good share, and more than I can perform, I doubt.

  20. Up to the office very betimes to draw up a letter for the Duke of Yorke relating to him the badness of our condition in this office for want of money.

  21. Warren with me betimes and signed a bond, and assigned his order on the Exchequer to a blank for me to fill and I did deliver him L1900.

  22. Up betimes and to the office, there to prepare some things against the afternoon for discourse about the business of the pursers and settling the pursers' matters of the fleete according to my proposition.

  23. Mount, and this is above all a word to say that in case you should do so at all betimes you will probably still see me here; as though I have taken my passage for England my date is only the 14th June.

  24. I shall be able to put my hand here betimes tomorrow.

  25. The Black Death I saw not above a couple of leagues off, having taken advantage betimes of the favorable breeze that had sprung up after the stillness of the night.

  26. There was a second net in this chamber for Lewis de Pino; but he, having business to do with the hunters, that we might start betimes the next morning, went out and joined them elsewhere, so that I was left alone to my meditations.

  27. Bell was down betimes despite the fact that it had been daylight before he was in bed.

  28. Chris was up betimes in the morning and out on the terrace.

  29. Men learn betimes in courts to forsake Love for Plutus, and many a wealthy lord would give his heiress to the poorest gentleman who claims kindred to the Earl of Salisbury and Warwick.

  30. The king, meanwhile, had ridden out betimes alone, and no other of the male sex presumed in his absence to invade the female circle.

  31. Rebecca must have sung a ballad betimes as she cooked venison or wild turkey at the hearth, or swept the floor with her rived oak broom.

  32. Then there was a beautiful thoroughbred colt, which Melanie chose betimes to bear her name.

  33. Dressed with more care than usual and went betimes to State House.

  34. Although very tired with the preparations, I wrote my little screed, dressed, and went betimes to the Hall, where I was expected to preside.

  35. And O, that they who read my lines Would ponder soberly, And lay to heart such things betimes As touch eternity.

  36. How much then doth it concern those parents that love their children, to see, that if they go from them, they be put into such families as be good, that they may learn there betimes to eschew evil, and to follow that which is good!

  37. I responded, 'With me in the shop are many necklaces but I have better at home and I will bring them for thee betimes to-morrow if it be the will of Almighty Allah.

  38. But we shall know betimes why he hath made this journey.

  39. In her distress the princess said unto her handmaiden: “Go thou and observe this man closely, and return betimes to inform me of all he doeth.

  40. But the Lean Man, as if bent on refuting his grandson's fears, was down betimes on the morrow.

  41. Up betimes and to my vyall and song book a pretty while, and so to my office, and there we sat all the morning.

  42. Up betimes and to my office, and by and by, about 8 o'clock, to the Temple to Commissioner Pett lately come to town and discoursed about the affairs of our office, how ill they go through the corruption and folly of Sir W.

  43. Up betimes and to my office, and anon we met upon finishing the Treasurer's accounts.

  44. Up betimes and to my office a while, and then home and to Sir W.

  45. Up betimes and in my office wrote out our bill for the Parliament about our being made justices of Peace in the City.

  46. Up betimes and found my weather-glass sunk again just to the same position which it was last night before I had any fire made in my chamber, which had made it rise in two hours time above half a degree.

  47. Up betimes and to my office, and there all the morning, only stepped up to see my wife and her dancing master at it, and I think after all she will do pretty well at it.

  48. Up betimes to my office, where busy till 8 o'clock that Sir W.

  49. Up betimes and to Woolwich all alone by water, where took the officers most abed.

  50. People go to bed betimes in the Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt.

  51. Just as you like, child; but if you are going to do that, we must be off soon, for I must be at my stand betimes to sell oranges: I had them all picked this morning while my little darling was asleep.

  52. There had been a bustle and stir betimes in the little dove-cot, for to-morrow the inmates were to leave it for a long, adventurous journey.

  53. Cameron betimes enjoyed the hospitality of friends who risked their lives in receiving him under their roof.

  54. These men of God knew how to wrestle with the Angel of the Covenant, and betimes continued their prayers till the break of day.

  55. The sight of such horrible wickedness made Cargill's blood boil, and his sermons arose betimes in passionate eloquence against the guilty king.

  56. Accordingly the fisherman went away by night, and coming to the lake, threw in his nets betimes next morning, took four fish like the former, and brought them to the vizier at the hour appointed.

  57. He went every day to fish betimes in the morning, and imposed it as a law upon himself not to cast his nets above four times a day.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "betimes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ahead; anon; before; beforehand; beforetime; betimes; directly; early; presently; shortly; soon; timely