bethink
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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
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 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
He sighed stormily, and then seemed to bethink himself again of the girl listening behind.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
But here, in trunk-upsetting Boston, I bethink me, and confess.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.
From Time Magazine Archive
He will not know how few of us will be there, and you will be able to choose your own ground for the fighting while he bethinks him.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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
In this finale the despairing Lionel bethinks him of his ring.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
After languishing for a week or more in darkness and misery, Hopeful suddenly bethinks him of a key which he has in his bosom, a key that will unlock any door in the castle.
From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen
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
In this emergency a fertile-minded office man bethought him of telephotography.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a dark night has passed since the great Osman, looking into a pool of blood, saw a star and the crescent moon there reflected and bethought him of a design for the Turkish flag.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus faced with a well-nigh desperate situation, Belgian royalty bethought itself of royal nieces.
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
Sewell professed his delight at such a prospect; and the Judge then, suddenly bethinking himself of the hour,—it was already nigh eleven,—arose.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever
"But meanwhile Mr. Jervas Rookley must shift for himself," I added, bethinking me of the condition.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Naturally in the course of my own work I have asked myself this question with qualms, bethinking myself of Tennyson’s phrase about swamping the sacred poets with themselves.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
I exclaimed, bethinking me of Jervas Rookley's threat.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Wogan turned away to the window and looked out into the street, bethinking him of what Lady Mary had told him.
From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang
