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Betimes   Listen
adverb
Betimes, Betime  adv.  
1.
In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. "To measure life learn thou betimes." "To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work."
2.
In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. "He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes."





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"Betimes" Quotes from Famous Books



... Later time shall tell The tale of that strange parting, of the schemes That set asunder autocratic youth And age, perchance, imperious. But, in truth, Wise age discounts the worth of boyish dreams; 'Tis well that youth, betimes, should bear the yoke! Maybe the Mighty Chancellor's career Is far less like, whatever may appear, Than the proud Emperor's plans ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 • Various
... date, alas, of modern rhymes, And 'tis but just to let them live betimes. No longer now that golden age appears, When Patriarch-wits surviv'd a thousand years; Now length of Fame (our second life) is lost, And bare threescore is all ev'n that can boast; Our sons their father's failing language ...
— The Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos - Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. • Horace
... Now betimes, in the afternoon, came Alfred the Atheling to me as I sat with Ceorle, talking of the arms of the vikings, and asked me to come and speak with friends of his, who would not see him ...
— A Thane of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler
... beginning your political career betimes," said Antonin, laughing. "You are trying to ...
— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac
... dear William, ere the day When Revolution goes for crowns and things, To cut your loss betimes and come this way And start a coterie ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch


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