"Do thou harness whichever I fling thee, and betweenwhiles protect the team." ❋ Unknown (2010)
By day he cooked as well, and, in the betweenwhiles, helped Anson in the building of the boat beside the torrent as the green planks came down. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is something beyond the compass of your thinking, inasmuch as it is yourself; but is it not of a higher spirit than you had dreamed betweenwhiles, and erect above all base considerations? ❋ Unknown (2005)
She would regularly change the ice, or the cooling spirit, on his head, and would keep her ear at the pillow betweenwhiles, listening for any faint words that fell from him in his wanderings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And betweenwhiles he has grudgingly allowed himself to be wooed by Sasha and his outriders. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2003)
He's worse now; I think he forgets betweenwhiles what was said the last time they looked. ❋ Various (N/A)
Horieneke sat demurely in the middle, next to Doorke, with uncle and aunt on either side and, lower down, father and all the children: mother had to keep moving to and fro, waiting on them, snatching a mouthful now and again betweenwhiles. ❋ Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels (1920)
At election times they do service for men high in authority; betweenwhiles they thrive on the bickerings and feuds among the despoilers. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
Iki, breathing every now and then a long quivering sigh and forgetting to breathe betweenwhiles, held on tightly with both hands. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)
We lingered on, looking and marveling, and betweenwhiles wondering whether our automobile's hacking cough had got any better by resting, until the sun went down and the twilight came. ❋ Unknown (1910)
You are feasting your eyes on the wonderful color effects and the groupings that so enthuse the artist, and which he generally manages to botch and boggle when he seeks to commit them to canvas; and betweenwhiles you are wondering why all the despondent cats in Venice should have picked out the Grand Canal as the most suitable place in which to commit suicide, when -- bump! ❋ Unknown (1910)
Richard was but a young Man, wild & headlong, and I a fair Woman thrown in his Way in an empty betweenwhiles ere his own true love came. ❋ Marie Conway Oemler (1905)
These things get about; and they are none so unobserving a people, south of the Gila, where 't is fair life or death to them to note betweenwhiles all manner of small things -- the set of a pack, the tongue of a buckle, the cleat of a mine ladder. ❋ Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1901)
Gallienne's last book along -- it just came in -- and read to you in betweenwhiles. ❋ Jack London (1896)
Liquids seem to have played as important a part as solids at these meals, each guest being obliged to begin with a cup of brandy, after which great glasses of wine were served, "and betweenwhiles a bumper of the strongest English beer, by which mixture of liquors every one of the guests is fuddled before the soup is served up." ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
