bethink
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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
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.
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He sighed stormily, and then seemed to bethink himself again of the girl listening behind.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
Further, you brothers and sisters of the north ought to bethink yourselves and keep in mind how we regard them.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.
From Time Magazine Archive
The elder hunter bethinks him of a solution for this problem.
From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough
The father, if he be a sensible man, naturally bethinks him that, if his boy can do so creditable a thing, worthy of praise, so might he himself.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
The president bethinks himself of a "patriot" architect, Citizen Palloy, who generally makes his appearance whenever there are "patriotic" demolitions to be accomplished.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
ARGUMENT:—On his wanderings Everychild bethinks him of his parents, and discovers that though he has seemed to lose them, he has not really done so.
From Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old by Blanche Fisher Laite
In his Discourse on Inequality, he lamented "the first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2017
Surfeited by whole years of public adulation, Signer Mussolini bethought himself suddenly last week of perhaps the most unnoticed and retiring woman in all Italy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly, Kalonji bethought himself of a dozen Lumumba aides and bullyboys he was holding.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Now. All night, I lay and I bethought myself—how to leave so I won’t be forgot? And behold.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Then bethinking herself, she added: "It seems so strange that a gentleman should do all those things for himself."
From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Eug?ne Sue
Then, bethinking himself of the serious business which he had in hand, he picked it up and trotted off to a dry spot which he knew of, just on the fringe of the island.
From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
"Oh, that was merely a side-issue,--only an after-piece," said Frau von Leskjewitsch, bethinking herself.
From Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
My vespers were done, and I was bethinking me of retiring to rest, when I heard the plaintive voice of Ethel beseeching me to let her come within my tent.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
And suddenly bethinking her of the pocket that commonly hung between the gown and petticoat, she felt for it.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
