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When conscience has extorted a confession, she returns him to his monastery and God, betaking herself to the Garden of Allah, gem of the desert, where their courtship began and her days will end.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here my companion, betaking himself once more to his crutches and keeping ahead of me, turned southwards along the road which lined the walls towards Santa Agnese.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

The classes should assemble in the large hall, in the morning, where they might join in singing or light gymnastic exercises, or listen to some short appropriate address before betaking themselves to their class-rooms.

From The Philosophy of Teaching The Teacher, The Pupil, The School by Sands, Nathaniel

And he talked something of betaking himself to the nearest hotel after we landed, and waiting for the next boat down the river.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

On my way home—remember, it was before eight o'clock—I met her betaking herself to what she calls "matins."

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various