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Example sentences for "betweens"

Lexicographically close words:
betuixt; betune; betwane; between; betweene; betwen; betwene; betwix; betwixt; betwixte
  1. Why, even the Queen's go-betweens will never daunt me, now I can go and drink love and courage direct from HER eyes; and nothing can chill nor discourage me now.

  2. Not a bit of it: the Queen's signature wasn't good till another of her go-betweens had signed it.

  3. Another of her go-betweens nailed me, and made me pay, and wait: these locusts steal your time as well as your money.

  4. They demanded more copies, and then employed more go-betweens to charge ten times the value of a copy, and nailed the balance, no doubt.

  5. From him to the other go-betweens at Whitehall.

  6. And, when all was done, I had to take the document back to one of the old go-betweens that I hoped I had worn out, the Attorney-general.

  7. These go-betweens influence the persons with whom they carry on the intercourse, by stating their own sense to each of them as the sense of the other; and thus they reciprocally master both sides.

  8. With no better than such powers, the go-betweens assume a new representative character.

  9. Such go-betweens are called match-makers for disembodied souls.

  10. Such go-betweens make a regular livelihood out of these proceedings.

  11. And the go-betweens of princes, and even of princesses, are always found in the finest situations.

  12. Fate, however, has often avenged the go-betweens on account of the misunderstandings from which they suffer at the hands of the vulgar.

  13. When she was fourteen years old, one after another wooed her, but when the go-betweens found out that there was nothing left of her property they went away and let the girl alone.

  14. Yes, yes, dear aunt, a lot of go-betweens go to his house.

  15. Betrothals are always in practice arranged through go-betweens or middlemen (mei jên) who are understood to be the disinterested friends of both the contracting parties.

  16. The custom of employing go-betweens is by no means exclusively Chinese.

  17. It will not be long before the go-betweens come knocking at our door with eager proposals of marriage for the fairest little lady in the whole prefecture.

  18. Among some tribes female go-betweens are made use of, while genuine courtship prevails among other tribes.

  19. There is no such thing there, unless bartering by go-betweens could be called by that name.

  20. Go-betweens are not agents of one party more than another.

  21. Go-betweens are responsible to both parties to a transaction, for the correct rendering of tenders, offers, and payments.

  22. After a time his father said that Lita must marry; so marriage go-betweens were sent out to look for a bride and they found a very rich and beautiful girl whose parents were agreeable to the match.


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