But when she sits to iudge the good and ill, And to discerne betwixt the false and true; She is not guided by the Senses' skill, But doth each thing in her owne mirrour view.
The second is "A Contention betwixt a Wife, a Widdow, and a Maide.
Marian, a-plucking me in a way that did not serve to increase good feeling betwixt us.
Hold my fan betwixt thy dainty cheeks and the blaze, sweetheart, lest the fire-fiend witch thy roses into very poppy flowers.
There isbetwixt the wals of their cities and the mote of the same a broade space, that six horsemen may ride together; the like space is within, betwixt the walles and the houses, whereas they may walke without impediment.
They esteeme it a great discourtesie, not to salute one an other when they see or meete one an other, although the acquaintance betwixt them be but small.
It is a strange thing to be seene, the strange and great difference betwixt the colours of the dwellers of this kingdome.
No boat could live in such a sea; it would either be swamped or crushed betwixt the heavy lumps of ice that, rising and falling, outrivalled the dreaded Scylla and Charybdis a thousand-fold.
If he could cross the steamship tracks betwixt the Old and New Worlds without being discovered, well and good.
The authorities knew that such was impossible, partly on account of the distance from British waters, and also that the Straits of Gibraltar were too well guarded by a strong flotilla cruising betwixt Tarifa and Ceuta.
Through the ports they had witnessed the cruiser's mishaps in the submerged bed of ice, and her perilous passage betwixt the horns of the berg.
Suddenly a four-pounder boomed out, and a shell hissed betwixt the huge funnels of L'Égalité.
It was indeed a strange freak of fortune that had guided the cruiser betwixt those icy portals in the fog.
Fielding and his companions gained the passage betwixt the cabin on the half-deck.
Not till the little craft had put a mile betwixt her and the dumbfounded Cervillo did the lieutenant order speed to be reduced.
In AEgypt and Mauritania above all things they look to this, that their Granaries stand on high ground; and how drie so ever their Floor be, they lay a course of Chaff betwixt it and the ground.
Beside Shocks, and little Hairy Dogs, they bring another sort over, Headed like a Fox, which they say are bred betwixt Dogs and Foxes; these are desired by the Shepherds of this Country.
For, the length of the face twice exceedeth that of the neck, and the space betwixt the throat-pit and the navell, is equall unto the circumference thereof.
Yet there was, by reason of a fierce flame which issued out and came from before him, a convenient distance betwixt him and them, as betwixt the Judge and the Prisoners at the bar.
The question being discussed with considerable animation betwixt them, it excited observation among the crew, and reached the ears of the Captain.
And on two or three occasions, especially on a discussion, as he fancied, of the important matter of the reckoning, there seemed to be a considerable difference of opinion betwixt the parties as to the amount to be charged.
The Dundee was as well armed as she was well manned, carrying twelve guns, eighteen pounders, I believe, with a crew of betwixt fifty and sixty men.
There were heights on one side garnished with stately oaks, and a meadow betwixt the road and the hill enamelled with all sorts of pleasing flowers, and stored with sheep, which were feeding in sober security.
In another recess betwixt the alcove and the chimney stood a praying stool and a desk with a cushion for a book to lie on.
Basil and Hubert; to call to mind how they did look and speak, and of the pretty kind {358} of natural affection there wasbetwixt them in their manner to each other.
They had been reared in the same house; and a kindness had always continued betwixt them.
And so they fell to whispering and suchlike discourses as lovers hold together; and I, being seated betwixt this enamored gentleman and the wall on the other side, had no one then to talk with.
Oh, what a gulf of tenfold separation did those words "beyond seas" suggest betwixtthat sole parent and his poor child!
But what chiefly renders the harmony betwixt them durable, is the absence of soldiers, who never appear in this nation.
If we also consider the form of government, and the manner of living among the northern nations of America, there will appear a great resemblance betwixt them and the Tartars in the north-east parts of Asia.
I continued with the hunters two or three days, and then accompanied one of them and his wife, who was near her time of lying-in, to their village, which lay far off betwixt the north and west.
Betwixt the canes and the infant is a kind of matrass of the tufted herb called Spanish Beard, and under its head is a little skin cushion, stuffed with the same herb.
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It 'ud seem to come in wi' the probability of things as they might have had a sort of a shortness betwixt 'em, and parted.
And I've seen enough to know as theer's no staple so easy to mannyfacture as ill-will, even betwixt them as thinks well of each other.
Niver could do it," replied Joseph; "it slips from betwixtthe thumb and finger like a eel.
Betwixt twelve and one," said he; "for that is the sacred dismal time of night for fiends to come, tombs to open and let loose their dead.
GP A True Relation of the Fight betwixt his Majestie's Souldiers, and his Excellence the Earle of Essex, his Forces, on the 24th of Oct.
Betwixt its beginning and its completion so many years intervened as to give birth to the rhyme: "Proud Banbury, poor people, Built a church without a steeple.
Because that like a Jack thou keep'st the stroke Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
By heaven, I think there is no man is secure But the Queen's kindred, and night-walking heralds That trudge betwixt the King and Mistress Shore.
He snorted, as the billows snort In darkness of the night; Betwixt his lean locks tawny-swart, He glowered on the sight.
That very same wee leetle Will Eating his bread and butter there, A-looking on the broad blue sea Betwixt his yaller hair!
It is a questionbetwixt my father's word and yours.
Take your choice betwixt imprisonment during my pleasure, or perpetual banishment from Czernova.
That day, and the few days that followed, formed the most unhappy time that Paul had ever known, for the fair maiden whom he loved lay in the mystic borderland betwixt life and death.
That desire of our hearts, a war betwixt England and Russia, seems as far off as ever.
Besides, the eternal trophy you shall rear, You by the deed shall gain a glorious prize, The sweetest flower of all the ladies fair That betwixt Ind and Atlas' pillars are.
XXII "Between Geneura and her faithful knight Such discord and ill will he schemed to shed, And put betwixtthe pair such foul despite.
I confess, I don’t conceive the Difference betwixt Ingenio and Genio in the first Verse.
Some Censurers of Shakespeare, and particularly Mr. Rymer, have taught me to distinguish betwixt the Railer and Critick.
Nor is there any occasion for all that bolstering with which they fill up the figure of Falstaff; they do not distinguish betwixt humourous exaggeration and necessary truth.
After reading and again reading the letter, Mrs. Butler hurried down stairs, divided betwixt the fear of betraying her secret, and the desire to throw herself upon her sister's neck.
There was some sense in Jeanie's reasoning; yet she was not sufficiently mistress either of the circumstances of etiquette, or the particular relations which existed betwixt the government and the Duke of Argyle, to form an accurate judgment.
And you scruple to exchange that for twelve hundred a-year, without alleging any damning difference of doctrine betwixt the two churches of England and Scotland?
Butler, however, set out in pursuit of her, and with much trouble traced her towards a little landing-place, formed by a small brook which enters the sea betwixt Musselburgh and Edinburgh.
Duke, using the encouraging epithet which at once acknowledged the connection betwixt them as country-folk; "or did you wish to see the Duchess?
Jeanie had good sense and tact, which constitute betwixt them that which is called natural good breeding.
So, after a while, he quieted in some measure, and the captain of the Ostender coming aboard about this time, we made shift betwixt us to settle some sort of a plan for mutual protection.
This awakening must have happened betwixt four and five o'clock in the morning, for the mat which hung at the door had been raised, and a cool and refreshing breeze swept through the mud hut.
She must have received more than one shot betwixt wind and water, for she was heeled over to one side, and I could see a stream of bloody water pouring continually from her scupper-holes.
She was at that time some six or seven miles distant, and just emerging from behind a raised thicket of scrub bushes that lay betwixt her and the Cassandra, and which had hidden her until now.
You shall well and truly Try, and true Deliverance make betwixt our Sovereign Lord the King, and the Prisoners at the Bar, according to your Evidence.
The Evidence you shall give to the Court, betwixt our Sovereign the King, and the Prisoners at the Bar, shall be the Truth, and the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.
Maybe you are somewhat like as yet unto him whose eyen Christ touched, that at first he could not tell betwixt men and trees.
I will set no difference betwixt Blanche and Clare.
Three rows and an half, betwixt twelve of the clock and four!
Blanche, look me in the face, and answer truly:--Hath there been any passage of lovebetwixt Don John and thee?
Nay, I had well-nigh said, betwixt Heaven and Hell: for I do believe the Devil to have been the perverter of truth with those corruptions that are in Papistry.
You can deal with the maid betwixt you two," pursued the spinster.
Mistress Blanche, if she can hear and make distinction betwixt all these at the self-same moment, then is she no woman like to you.
There is no manner of likeness, Blanche, betwixt this creature and Don John," she urged.
Twas ill turning her down one road an' she took the bitbetwixt her teeth, and had a mind to go the other.
What should you say, Mistress Blanche, if you wist that therein lieth no difference betwixt Popery and Paganism?
There is all the difference that is betwixt Heaven and earth," answered Mr Tremayne.
I be loth to come betwixt you and your studies, but my need presseth me to pray of you the way unto Master Tremayne's house the parson?
There is a difference betwixt forgetting and not knowing," replied Mrs Tremayne with a smile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "betwixt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: among; mid; midst
