"Betimes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... betimes to his work, a chisel in his hand. He was old, but pike and partisan brandished at his back gave wings to his flight. In the ecstasy of his terror, he leaped upward, clutched the top of the palisade, and threw himself over with the agility of a boy. He ran up ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.
... evil thought, she carried her victims one after the other into Duchess's kennel and left them there. The coachman, who was up betimes cleaning his harness, saw her do this. After which the old sly-boots retired to her own lair and went to sleep ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... children to come unto one, to forbid them betimes to love themselves—so causeth the ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche
... poisoned the pleasure I had at first felt in my return to my own family. I cannot describe the weary tumult of thought and doubt that tossed me, till, after a brief sleep, I heard the church-bells. I rose and dressed for early mass, taking my boy, who always awoke betimes, leaving the house quietly, and only calling my trusty lackey Nicolas to take me to the nearest Church, which was not many steps off. I do not think I found peace there: there was too much SELF in me to reach that as yet; but at any rate ...
— Stray Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Prussians are up betimes; King Friedrich, as above noted, had not, or had hardly at all, slept during those two nights, such his anxieties. This morning, all is calm, sleeked out into spotless white; Pogarell and the world are wrapt as in a winding-sheet, near two feet ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
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