Why should a four-star general bestir himself over getting his facts wrong or describing a black woman as a barrel?
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We should not entertain fantasies that the Russian economy will soon collapse so that we do not have to bestir ourselves.
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It's Lovely Up Here," Daisy, singing to a flower pot, may seem a little daffy, but the song ends with her singing the lines "Wake up / Bestir yourself / It's time that you disinter yourself!
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As for the book's title story, Fitzgerald couldn't bestir himself to climb yet another flight of plot stairs: "If 'I'd Die for You' hasn't sold you might as well send it back to me," he wrote Ober.
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He finishes the story by laying out the master's lesson: "It's not my duck, it's not my bottle, it's not my problem," he says, meaning that he won't bestir himself to act for good if he's not morally culpable in the problem.
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Above all, do not forget that the world would be a duller and darker place if everyone thought as you did, and if all our thoughts were safe ones, and if there were nothing to bestir our minds, and inflame our senses, and rouse our consciences, and churn the warm but too-placid waters in which we swim at our own peril.
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Why is it so important to bestir oneself? Bestirring oneself means that one feels truly fortunate and excited to stand before one's Creator and that one longs for this moment.
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There he offered the chief Tróndur í Gøtu the boys Sigmundur Brestisson and Tóri Beinisson as slaves for sale. Becoming aware that the two boys were sons of the brothers Bestir and Beinir, whom Tróndur had previously murdered, Tróndur rejected the offer. Tróndur instead offered Ravnur money so as to bring the boys away from the Faroes. The sagas report that Ravnur treated the boys excellently, bringing them back with him to Viken in Norway.
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Clark's drawing of the keelboat from above Lewis was very dissatisfied with how the construction progressed. The boatbuilder was very tardy, drunken, and quarreled with his workers, causing several of them to quit work and leave the yard, further delaying the construction. He promised to bestir himself, but his resolution lasted only for a week. Lewis had to spend most of his time in Pittsburgh at the boat yard, in order to hasten the construction.
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It is saidfor example, "Soon after Reeve's death Claxton challenged Muggleton for the leadership of the movement" T. L. Underwood Acts of the Witnesses p. 10 that, on the death of John Reeve, there was a power-struggle between Lodowicke Muggleton and Laurence Clarkson (or Claxton) for leadership. However, it is unclear if Muggleton saw there as being a "movement" of which to be leader. William Lamont remarks that it is strange that he took three years to bestir himself in his own cause.
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Vasily Vorontsov called for the Russian intelligentsia to "bestir itself from the mental lethargy into which, in contrast to the sensitive and lively years of the seventies, it had fallen and formulate a scientific theory of Russian economic development". However, some Narodnik intellectuals called for an immediate revolution that went beyond philosophical and political discussion. In the spring of 1874, the Narodnik intelligentsia left the cities for the villages, Going to the People in an attempt to uplift the peasantry their moral imperative to revolt. They found almost no support.
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Carry It On! edited by Seeger and Bob Reiser urges women to "Like Mother Jones, bestir them bones"."Union Maid", in: Seeger, Pete and Bob Reiser, eds. Carry It On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985 The 1973 single "Part of the Union" by British rock band The Strawbs, draws on similar themes to Guthrie's song to the extent that some sections - in particular the second verse - could be considered as a cover version. This song has also been adopted by supporters of the Philadelphia Union soccer team, who will sing the chorus of the song outside of and at matches.
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In 1946, Edwin Jenyss Quinby, an activated reserve commander, founder of the Electric Railroaders' Association in 1934 (which lobbied on behalf of rail users and services), and former employee of North Jersey Rapid Transit (which operated in New York), published a 24-page "expose" on the ownership of National City Lines addressed to "The Mayors; The City Manager; The City Transit Engineer; The members of The Committee on Mass-Transportation and The Tax-Payers and The Riding Citizens of Your Community". It began, "This is an urgent warning to each and every one of you that there is a careful, deliberately planned campaign to swindle you out of your most important and valuable public utilities–your Electric Railway System". His activism may have led Federal authorities to prosecute GM and the other companies. "Quinby’s charges would finally bestir the government to begin an investigation into National City Lines and its owners and subsidiaries and suddenly the opposition changed their tactics (in a clear admission of guilt)..." Thanks to Quinby’s warning, the Feds eventually took GM to trial and convicted them for controlling these companies to monopolize sales of its products, a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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In 1908, J. Nilsen Laurvik wrote: > In the sculpture of Barnard, as in the work of Rodin, we see the vital, > almost consuming energy that appears to bestir itself within the clay or > marble as it flows out in the undulating, rhythmic movements of thews > [sinews] and muscles, in the suggestions of the delicate yet withal powerful > bony structure of the body under its finely drawn covering of soft flesh and > smooth envelope of skin, as in the prostrate figure of the Two Natures, > where the shoulder blades and the delicate ridge and furrow of the backbone > are modeled with a supple, caressing, quivering touch as of life itself. > This is no less true of his well-known bronze figure Pan, which adorns the > northeastern corner of Columbia University campus. With the discerning, this > lazy creature of infinite good nature has already become a sort of a classic > in the art of our country—one of the very few so far, and one destined to > remain incomparable for some time to come. In its suavity and suppleness of > modeling it reveals Barnard's virtuosity in a striking manner.
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