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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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He sighed stormily, and then seemed to bethink himself again of the girl listening behind.

From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson

I bethink me there are barrels of oil that we did not place aboard the Mirandola.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert

Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.

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In such a state of mind one bethinks one's self of one's relations—those friends not always congenial, but whom one looks to instinctively, when one is young, in the crisis of life.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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 Melville, Herman

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 Moody, Dwight Lyman

And he bethinks himself,—does it lie somewhere under the harsh and dogmatic utterances of the Ashfield pulpit?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various

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

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.

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Prince George, mistaking the crowd for a normal one, sat up with his usual cheery smile, soon bethought him of his top, put it on without anyone's having mentioned it to him.

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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

"Oh, that was merely a side-issue,--only an after-piece," said Frau von Leskjewitsch, bethinking herself.

From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip

And then, suddenly bethinking himself, "Have you been there ever since?"

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

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 Sue, Eug?ne

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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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 Zweig, Stefan