Betwixt

"Betwixt" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal.

And when the feast was sped, / their missing friends in converse they require, / doubtful to deem them, betwixt hope and dread, / alive or out of hearing with the dead.

For there is no difference betwixt a poor man and a rich, betwixt a master and a servant.

The marriage betwixt Janet Dalrymple and David Dunbar of Baldoon now went forward, the bride showing no repugnance, but being absolutely passive in everything her mother commanded or advised.

According to the ideas of the time, which did not permit a young woman to offer her sentiments on any subject of importance unless required to do so, Lucy was bound to appear ignorant of the meaning of all that had passed betwixt Alice and her father.

It was always the image of the Master of Ravenswood, with his native nobleness of countenance and form, that seemed to interpose betwixt her and assured death.

She knew little of Ravenswood, or the disputes which had existed betwixt her father and his.

They broke betwixt them the thin broad-piece of gold.

The bride was led forth betwixt her brother Henry and her mother.

And he set the space of three days journey betwixt himself and his son-in-law, who fed the rest of his flock.

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There was some speech of marriage / Betwixt myself and her.

The times have changed in nothing more (we follow as we were wont the manuscript of Peter Pattieson,) than in the rapid conveyance of intelligence and communication betwixt one part of Scotland and another.

When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

And praying to the Gods beneath, I stuck my dirk betwixt my teeth and drew my sabre from its sheath.

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