betimes
Example Sentences
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Poppies don’t bloom in December — not even here — and roses put in an appearance only betimes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022
It originated as Union Army surplus fabric after the Civil War, and 19th-century officers wore it betimes with a cowboy hat, or with an Abe Lincoln stovepipe topper.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2021
Next morning he was up betimes and off to the Vatican for a conference of nearly two hours with Papal Secretary of State Luigi Cardinal Maglione.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Moral Rearmament" became the 1938 slogan of Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford Groups, who worked betimes for a religious revival, and betimes announced that it had already happened.
From Time Magazine Archive
An we do not shift for ourselves betimes, we shall have all the Spaniards of Panama upon us pell mell.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
