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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

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

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

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

My poor Francesco," said he "bethink thee that I have had a life of controversy, and am sick on't, sick as death.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Meanwhile the refractory urchin, with no fear to stimulate his sluggish conscience, chuckles, rejoices and is glad, and bethinks himself of some uninvented methods of devilment.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton

Thus, struck down in the hour of his pride and passion, Euphues becomes "a changed man," and bethinks himself of his soul, which he has so long neglected.

From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson

She laughs, then bethinks herself in time to save the undesired blunder, and they float gracefully through the first figure.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas

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

But Smith College bethought herself, or was reminded, of Poet Pierre's 400th birthday last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.*

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

Then, bethinking himself of the serious business which he had in hand, he picked it up and trotted off to a dry spot which he knew of, just on the fringe of the island.

From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Then bethinking him of his French, he added, with dignity, "Welcome to Miaw-lins—Miaw-lins-lay-Tower."

From Dorothy and other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

The danger quickened his faculties: he clung on with a tighter grip, bethinking himself to look whether his fishing spear, which he had stuck into the bark, was still safe.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

In their rhythm too is this increasing velocity, this catching of the breath and this return to the starting-point, this bethinking itself of gravity when it returns to the earth.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig

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