betimes
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Poppies don’t bloom in December — not even here — and roses put in an appearance only betimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
It originated as Union Army surplus fabric after the Civil War, and 19th-century officers wore it betimes with a cowboy hat, or with an Abe Lincoln stovepipe topper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
Next morning he was up betimes and off to the Vatican for a conference of nearly two hours with Papal Secretary of State Luigi Cardinal Maglione.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the past ten years, Dolan has toiled in Hollywood, worked betimes on radio scripts for the Big Town series.
From Time Magazine Archive
So it was light enough for one of the Sisters, entering the church betimes, to distinguish a little figure curled up darkly in the porch.
From The Man with the Pan Pipes and other Stories by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
Vocabulary lists containing betimes
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 3
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"To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman
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