Betaking

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.” ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of the ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then he resolved to visit the Hammam, that he might dispel doubt by supplying certainty; and when he entered, Abu Sir doffed his dress and betaking himself as of wont to the service of the King, proceeded to glove him; after which he said to him, “O King of the age, I have made a drug which assisteth in plucking out the lower hair.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

When he heard this he arose and withdrew with out speaking a single word; and, betaking himself to his mother related what his aunt had said. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Armanus had agreed with his daughter on this wise and had determined what course he would take and night came on, Queen Budur arose from the throne of her kingdom and betaking herself to the palace, entered the apartment prepared for her. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to the forest with his pickaxe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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 ❋ Unknown (2008)

He ceased not doing on this wise forty days, betaking himself daily to the sea, from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, and returning home without fish; and still he took bread and spending-money of the baker, who never once named the fish to him nor neglected him nor kept him waiting like the folk,239 but gave him the bread and the ten half-dirhams without delay. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So the youth Ibrahim arose and betaking himself to the shop of the humpbacked tailor, went in to him and found with him ten Mamelukes as they were moons. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Advice, in betaking himself to some vertuous Woman in Marriage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When Friday came round, however, the crier proclaimed as usual that the people should repair to the mosques two hours before prayer time or else hide themselves in their houses, together with their cats and dogs; whereat their breasts were straitened and they assembled in general assembly and betaking themselves to the ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hammam and presently donned a suit of the richest royal raiment and betaking myself to Ibn al-Alaa, said to him, ‘O my lord, I want her whose night is five hundred dinars.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

But after awhile, he fell to taking a company of them every day and betaking himself with them afar off to one of the caves, where he struck them down and eating their eyes and brains, threw their bodies into the river. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"You have a [betak] [ass], you betak!" ❋ Lawlzilllllllllla (2008)

"Yekhreb Betak ya [Mahmoud]" Person 1: "I just made 1 [Mio] dollars from an [Investment] bro!!" Person 2: "Yekhreb Betak!!! How did you do that??" ❋ MrCreamy69 (2023)