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- verb Present participle of
betake .
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Examples
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County and city officials were ordered to list men between the ages of eighteen and fifty and select from them able-bodied men “found loitering and neglecting to labor for reasonable wages; all who run from their habitations, leaving wives or children without suitable means for their subsistence, and all other idle, vagrant, or dissolute persons, wandering abroad without betaking themselves to some lawful employment.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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County and city officials were ordered to list men between the ages of eighteen and fifty and select from them able-bodied men “found loitering and neglecting to labor for reasonable wages; all who run from their habitations, leaving wives or children without suitable means for their subsistence, and all other idle, vagrant, or dissolute persons, wandering abroad without betaking themselves to some lawful employment.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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County and city officials were ordered to list men between the ages of eighteen and fifty and select from them able-bodied men “found loitering and neglecting to labor for reasonable wages; all who run from their habitations, leaving wives or children without suitable means for their subsistence, and all other idle, vagrant, or dissolute persons, wandering abroad without betaking themselves to some lawful employment.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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County and city officials were ordered to list men between the ages of eighteen and fifty and select from them able-bodied men “found loitering and neglecting to labor for reasonable wages; all who run from their habitations, leaving wives or children without suitable means for their subsistence, and all other idle, vagrant, or dissolute persons, wandering abroad without betaking themselves to some lawful employment.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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But when a man is vexed with what he finds indoors, he goeth forth and rids his soul of its disgust, betaking him to some friend or comrade of like age; whilst we must needs regard his single self.
Medea 2008
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And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of the
Les Miserables 2008
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But when a man is vexed with what he finds indoors, he goeth forth and rids his soul of its disgust, betaking him to some friend or comrade of like age; whilst we must needs regard his single self.
Medea 2008
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The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking himself to shelter.
Les Miserables 2008
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Advice, in betaking himself to some vertuous Woman in Marriage.
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In the late Troubles of Ireland, said she, my Husband betaking himself to King James's Party, we were stript of all we had, our
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