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
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
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
We bethink a means to break it off.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
And now I bethink me, kind lady, that it ill becomes me to have spoken of nothing but my own poor affairs on my first having the honor of meeting with you.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Mr. Pennock, who has danced the previous galop with her, sees the leader raising his baton, bethinks him of his next partner, and leaves her at the open window close to the dressing-room door.
From Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier by Charles King
In such a state of mind one bethinks one's self of one's relations—those friends not always congenial, but whom one looks to instinctively, when one is young, in the crisis of life.
From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
After dinner he bethinks himself of some opportunity to procure supper, and with the night come new cares.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
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
In his meditations he bethought him of the Hippocratic Oath which doctors swear.
From Time Magazine Archive
The line was that Britain, at least, had bethought herself, after hearing and acceding to Joseph Stalin's blunt demand for land action on the Invasion Coast.
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
I threw a glance at them over my shoulder, bethinking me that I had not told the Duchess my story, and that Sir Anthony and Petronilla would never--but, pish!
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
"We once staid here for a month, noble sir; and, as to bethinking me of what I shall do, I have bethought me already, but will not stay you to speak about it now."
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
I could have informed her who had possessed the key, but refrained, bethinking me that the knowledge might only add to her distress and yet do no real service to me.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
She smiled right into Victor's face to such a degree that she knew no way of escape but by bethinking herself of his destined chamber, which she directed to be opened and shown to him.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
I rose to my feet, grasped it, and, suddenly bethinking myself for the first time, uncovered my head.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
