betiding
- present participle of betide.
Example Sentences
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Then spake the Carline: "I must now look along the ways of sleep and see what is betiding."
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
For prairie and mountain, windswept and high, For betiding beauty of earth and sky— Say a benediction e'er you pass by.
From The Miracle and Other Poems by Sheard, Virna
The death of my son betiding while my soul was under this anxiety, I thought of nothing but resigning my dominions, and retiring for ever from the sight of mankind.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
And hence their quiet looks confiding, Hence grateful instincts seated deep, By whose strong bond, were ill betiding, They'd risk their own his life to keep.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various
There was an Ark with scrolls of the Law in the room, betiding a piety and a purse beyond the normal.
From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel
