bethink
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But to the point, bethink your self well; a man may forget a thing to day, and recollect it to morrow.
From Citt and Bumpkin (1680) by Sir Roger L'Estrange
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
When the sculptor has mastered the possible he bethinks him of the impossible.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison
After languishing for a week or more in darkness and misery, Hopeful suddenly bethinks him of a key which he has in his bosom, a key that will unlock any door in the castle.
From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen
So when an untaught and uncorrupted mind looks upon a new scene and bethinks itself of a name to fit it, the name is almost certainly full of charm or rugged power.
From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Sir Hall Caine
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
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus faced with a well-nigh desperate situation, Belgian royalty bethought itself of royal nieces.
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
"Oh, that was merely a side-issue,--only an after-piece," said Frau von Leskjewitsch, bethinking herself.
From Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
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
I rose to my feet, grasped it, and, suddenly bethinking myself for the first time, uncovered my head.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
She smiled right into Victor's face to such a degree that she knew no way of escape but by bethinking herself of his destined chamber, which she directed to be opened and shown to him.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
Smith was leading his cohort to the attack, when one of the men, apparently bethinking himself, approached Armathwaite and touched his cap.
From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy
