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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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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

We bethink a means to break it off.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.

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But then he bethinks himself that that is not quite all.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

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

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

When the Newmarket Houghton meeting is over, Mr. Bookmaker bethinks him of billiards, and he goes daily and nightly among interesting gatherings of his brotherhood.

From Side Lights by Grant Allen

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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In his meditations he bethought him of the Hippocratic Oath which doctors swear.

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Many a dark night has passed since the great Osman, looking into a pool of blood, saw a star and the crescent moon there reflected and bethought him of a design for the Turkish flag.*

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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

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

I sat in my saddle, gazing at the house silently, and bethinking me of what service it might prove in the enterprise on which I was embarked.

From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

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

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

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