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BETWIXT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the interval
Example:
dancing all the dances with little rest between
Synonyms:
between; betwixt
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Context examples:
He’d set his heart very much on comin’ here to-night, but there were reasons why I didn’t wish him to, and so there’s a shadow betwixt us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For though she ain't no call to doubt my love, and doen't—and doen't, he repeated, with a quiet assurance of the truth of what he said, there's shame steps in, and keeps betwixt us.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I kept from them at as great a distance as I could, but was forced to move with extreme difficulty, for the stalks of the corn were sometimes not above a foot distant, so that I could hardly squeeze my body betwixt them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And see this stag, Alleyne, with the cross betwixt its horns.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Downs swarmed with them, for since there might be no lawful trade betwixt France and England, it had all to run in that channel.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“She attended on Em'ly,” said Mr. Peggotty, who had released my hand, and put his own hand on his heaving chest; “she attended to my Em'ly, lying wearied out, and wandering betwixt whiles, till late next day. Then she went in search of me; then in search of you, Mas'r Davy. She didn't tell Em'ly what she come out fur, lest her 'art should fail, and she should think of hiding of herself. How the cruel lady know'd of her being theer, I can't say. Whether him as I have spoke so much of, chanced to see 'em going theer, or whether (which is most like, to my thinking) he had heerd it from the woman, I doen't greatly ask myself. My niece is found.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Such a one at Ventadour ran three courses with me betwixt daybreak and sunrise, to the great exaltation of his lady.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At last, in a fight with Black Baruk the Jew, he finished the battle with such a lashing hit that he not only knocked his opponent over the inner ropes, but he left him betwixt life and death for long three weeks.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had eluded pursuit, and was going to America in a flaxen wig, and whiskers, and such a complete disguise as never you see in all your born days; when the little woman, being in Southampton, met him walking along the street—picked him out with her sharp eye in a moment—ran betwixt his legs to upset him—and held on to him like grim Death.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“And I can see men-at-arms in yonder boats which ply betwixt the vessel and the shore. But methinks that we are very welcome here, for already they come forth to meet us.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
