Verb (used with object), : She bestirred herself at the first light of morning. From Dictionary.com.
We may make these times better if we bestir ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
"Say, captain," said Mr Marline, who was the first to bestir himself. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
I really think you might bestir yourself a little to look after the estate. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence] Reference
"Get up, husband, and bestir yourself, for we must be king of all the land.". From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
If he did not wake and bestir himself, the callous waves would come and cover him. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
When reason began to bestir itself, I appeared each week in great open meetings in. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
At this news the adventurous youths all over the country began to bestir themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Now is it time for them, who profess to love him, to bestir themselves in his behalf. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Of course the planter must, and will bestir himself, to meet the ever-increasing demand. From Wordnik.com. [The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses] Reference
In a short time he began to bestir himself to make a place for his wife in Berlin society. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
People of refined sentiments will, at such a disclosure, bestir themselves to better things. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Now is the time for every body to bestir themselves, and that all resort here to their master. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Perhaps we had better bestir ourselves, for Mars is now getting farther away from the earth every day. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
With the coming of spring all began to bestir themselves in various activities, and everything looked hopeful. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
It is a torpor that must be resisted, as the man in the whirling snows must bestir himself, or he will perish. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Fire! in a City in Flames, where all are drunk or asleep, and must either rouse and bestir themselves, or Perish. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
To sit still, however, was to yield to the rising spirit of reformation, and they determined to bestir themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
To get to those beds he was even willing to bestir his poor limbs, so he sat up and felt about him for the donkey. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference
To get to those beds he was even willing to bestir his bruised limbs, so he sat up and felt about him for the donkey. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
I always thought I could have it when I chose; but if I don't bestir myself, I shall not be able to choose much longer. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Thus left with a family and very slender resources, I was compelled, feeble as I was, to bestir myself for their and my own support. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
But if thy soul trusts not her prowess utterly, then neither bestir thyself nor sit still and look round for some one else of these men. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Was not an enormous lever wanted to bestir those masses; and if this lever in falling crushes some useless wretches, am I very culpable?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Comrades vie with one another in cutting the widest swathe, women bestir themselves in their wake so as not to be distanced by the mowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Until a crime was committed the old constable had no reason to bestir himself, and when a crime was committed he was hampered in many ways. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
He began to bestir himself, going to and fro with the candle, beleaguered by moving shadows, and startled to the soul by chance reflections. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
General steps from his car, demoralised reapers bestir themselves into some semblance of activity, and the commander of the party simply is not. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
As the nearby text makes clear, zoologists even then knew perfectly well that the male wouldn't ordinarily bestir himself to chase his own dinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hall Of Bacteria] Reference
But when he began organizing the masses into sworn legions, then did the magnates bestir themselves, seeing danger in the gathering clouds of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
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