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.
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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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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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Lady, what unlucky accident should bethink you of the garment?
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
Judith," said she, "even if he be not of that fearful kind—even if he be a real man, and such as he represents himself, bethink you what you are doing!
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.
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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
Bosley, soon as left alone with his captive, bethinks him what he had best do with her.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
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
He bethinks him that the man with the brass-plate was to land on this villainous bank, and for that cause, if no other, begins to suspect him.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
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
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.
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Thus faced with a well-nigh desperate situation, Belgian royalty bethought itself of royal nieces.
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But Smith College bethought herself, or was reminded, of Poet Pierre's 400th birthday last week.
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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
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"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
I changed my mind, however, bethinking me that the couple were poor, and that if I acted on the inclination, I should be punishing not merely the husband but the wife as well.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Madame," I said, "last night, as I lay in my bed, bethinking me of the morrow, and wondering what it held in store for me, I heard the sound of a woman weeping.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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
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
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