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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.

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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.

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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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But bethink thee of the doom that awaits thee at the end of it.”

From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

Now do you, my Friends, before reading farther, bethink you how a man was to extricate himself from such a plight, without losing head!

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle

Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this dilemma, Anne of Austria bethinks her of the man to whose address and courage she had, twenty years previously, been so deeply indebted; D'Artagnan is called in to her assistance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

And he bethinks himself,—does it lie somewhere under the harsh and dogmatic utterances of the Ashfield pulpit?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various

Hrothgar, king of the Danes, lives happily and peacefully, and bethinks him to build a glorious hall called Hart.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

It meditates no question of political economy or of trade, but bethinks it how streets are best defended, and how towns are fortified against themselves.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 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

At Houston, Tex., authorities bethought themselves that criminals are criminals, and abolished the "State Honor Farm," from which 49 "honor prisoners" have already escaped this year.

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But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition.

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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.

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“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

Smith was leading his cohort to the attack, when one of the men, apparently bethinking himself, approached Armathwaite and touched his cap.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy

“How much would you be inclined to give?” asked the lessee, bethinking him of a compromise.

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid

“Bless me!” exclaimed Mr. Webster suddenly bethinking himself of his duties.

From Jane Lends A Hand by Shirley Watkins

So the wily Frenchman, bethinking himself how useful it often is to know another man's disagreeable secrets, set himself to discover all he could of his employer's past.

From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight

As Otto said, I had set the traps myself, and bethinking me of this, I recalled a phrase which I had spoken to Count Lukstein.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason