Betime

Formerly 'betime'; "the final 's' is due to the habit of adding '- s' or '- es' to form adverbs; cf. 'whiles' (afterwards ❋ William Shakespeare (1590)

Therefore, brethren, take we heed betime, while the day of salvation lasteth; for the night cometh, when none can work. ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2008)

But his mention of Madonna got me hoping that it might betime for the material girl to stop in as a guest judge! ❋ Unknown (2008)

And in the morn betime, as those [5977] Lacedaemonian lasses saluted ❋ Unknown (2007)

“‘To business that we love we rise betime and go to it with delight,’” Nectar quoted. ❋ Karen Quinn (2007)

_And I my reading learnt betime From studying pocket-books. ❋ John S. Farmer (N/A)

And so that day he took his lodging betime in a little town called Milly. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

Then, surely it had been sleeping now with chubby limbs flung wide, its breathing so soft that you had to bend your ear to its red lips to hear it, had been lying wearied with dancing and mischief-making and shouting and toddling and falling, resting the night from a happy to-day till the dawn woke it betime for a happy to-morrow. ❋ John Maurice Miller (N/A)

Similarly at Jaffa in choosing a mount for the ride up to Jerusalem 'be not too long behind your fellows; for an ye come betime, ye may choose the best mule' and 'ye shall pay no more for the best than for the worst'. ❋ Unknown (1901)

'If ye shall go in a galley, make your covenant with the patron betime; and choose you a place in the said galley in the overmost stage. ❋ Unknown (1901)

From Sherborne, Raleigh wrote on the 6th of April saying frankly that if her Majesty persisted in excluding him from every sort of preferment, 'I must begin to keep sheep betime.' ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

"If you can spare no other time I will send for you some evening and you can spend the night with me and I will have you in school betime in the morning," she said. ❋ Zillah Raymond (1883)

First, You must begin betime, before your children have got any ill habits, which may be easily prevented, but are not easily cured. ❋ 1637-1708 (1834)

First, You must begin betime, before your Children have got any ill Habits, which may be easily prevented, but are not so easily cured. ❋ 1637-1708 (1712)

Such cold mean flowrs the spring puts forth betime ❋ Unknown (1678)

Up betime with my wife, and by coach with Sir W. Pen and Sir Thomas Allen to W.ite Hall, there my wife and I the first time that ever we went to my Lady Jemimah's chamber at Sir Edward Carteret's lodgings. ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)

Do you have a Betim? [Capture] one and he will [be the best] man you could ever [dream] of. ❋ JustAGirl214 (2017)

[that guy over there], yes [that one], he is [Betim]. ❋ Jonsnowthewise (2018)

[Betim], [my god]. ❋ Hahdud Shai (2016)

[Betim], [my god]. ❋ Hahdud Shai (2016)