bethink

Example Sentences

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When a New Englander needs an image for swarming bees he may not bethink him of showered stars, yet sparks from a Fourth of July pinwheel are quite as effective and wholly permissible.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the head of the French department did not bethink himself in time to procure a bust of Ronsard to be duly "crowned," during the ceremony.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet many readers will bethink themselves of many Cynthias and wonder if it is too late, or just timely, to pass the book along.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now I bethink me, child, I have a message for thee.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

My poor Francesco," said he "bethink thee that I have had a life of controversy, and am sick on't, sick as death.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles