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 ought first to bethink ourselves that the inward significance of an action is quite different from its outward significance, and that these are often separated from each other.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
He is resolv'd to woo thee whatever thence betide; So now betimes bethink thee; he'll ne'er renounce his bride.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The performer announces that he is about to cut them all up, but before commencing to do so bethinks himself of his own good handkerchief which he removes and places in his pocket.
From Peerless Prestidigitation Being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the fascinating art of modern magic by Herbert de Caston
D'Artagnan takes his advice; bethinks him of the three mousquetaires, and sets out to look for them.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
But at last the king bethinks himself of Elisha the prophet, and he says, “There is a subject in my kingdom who may be able to help you and cure your leprosy.”
From Wondrous Love and other Gospel addresses by Dwight Lyman Moody
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly, Kalonji bethought himself of a dozen Lumumba aides and bullyboys he was holding.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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
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
At any rate, as though bethinking himself of something half forgotten, he changed his mind of a sudden.
From Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman by Norman Duncan
“Bless me!” exclaimed Mr. Webster suddenly bethinking himself of his duties.
From Jane Lends A Hand by Shirley Watkins
My vespers were done, and I was bethinking me of retiring to rest, when I heard the plaintive voice of Ethel beseeching me to let her come within my tent.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
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
