bethink
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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.
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
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
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
And there are sick maroons in the forecastle, I bethink me you said.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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
Then Denise bethinks herself of some homely household duties.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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
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
After these practical matters had been attended to, Cleve bethought himself of form, and sent a telegram offering the fish to the Queen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far away in Doorn the ex-Kaiser, too, bethought him of the Battle of Tannenberg and recalled that if Hindenberg and Ludendorff were its heroes, it was only because he had sent them there.
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
"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
The intercessor would not be baffled, and, bethinking himself to appeal by the tenderness of birth and of death to the king, wrote four lines of verse which he left on the table.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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
“How much would you be inclined to give?” asked the lessee, bethinking him of a compromise.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
