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  • verb Present participle of bestir.

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Examples

  • Did they bestir themselves on my trail, their dogs were too fat, and themselves too lean, to overtake me; also, I deemed their bestirring would be of an order for which I had made due preparation.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Did they bestir themselves on my trail, their dogs were too fat, and themselves too lean, to overtake me; also, I deemed their bestirring would be of an order for which I had made due preparation.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Miss Deborah and the other teachers sat in the shade, bestirring themselves only when one of their charges grew too rambunctious.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Miss Deborah and the other teachers sat in the shade, bestirring themselves only when one of their charges grew too rambunctious.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Miss Deborah and the other teachers sat in the shade, bestirring themselves only when one of their charges grew too rambunctious.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • These chairs were built to his measure, though he is seldom bestirring himself from Pentos to sit in them.

    The Headless Brother 2009

  • Elsewhere, through the agency of the great railway companies, some of which are bestirring themselves in this matter with a gallantry and generosity deserving of all praise.

    Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

  • We left him bestirring himself to feed the fowls, and we sat down to our punch in the arbor; where Wemmick told me, as he smoked a pipe, that it had taken him a good many years to bring the property up to its present pitch of perfection.

    Great Expectations 2007

  • You have roused the families, and they are bestirring themselves.

    Ursula 2006

  • It was easier when the body politic watched the jiggling mammaries on TV and drank beer by the caseload to forget their domestic trifles, but that darn internet went from being a cybernetic version of the Home Shopping Network for fatasses incapable of bestirring themselves beyond their own barcalounger, to something that could actually be used to communicate concepts requiring critical thinking and studied responses.

    Firedoglake » It’s High Time for Some Truth 2006

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