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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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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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And there are sick maroons in the forecastle, I bethink me you said.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

But here, in trunk-upsetting Boston, I bethink me, and confess.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.

From Time Magazine Archive

He will not know how few of us will be there, and you will be able to choose your own ground for the fighting while he bethinks him.

From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

In this dilemma, Anne of Austria bethinks her of the man to whose address and courage she had, twenty years previously, been so deeply indebted; D'Artagnan is called in to her assistance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

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

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

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.*

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The line was that Britain, at least, had bethought herself, after hearing and acceding to Joseph Stalin's blunt demand for land action on the Invasion Coast.

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But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition.

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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

"But meanwhile Mr. Jervas Rookley must shift for himself," I added, bethinking me of the condition.

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

While congratulating himself on the change of fortune, he was also bethinking him of what had led to it.

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid

Ben, bethinking himself of the drinking cup that was part of the auto’s equipment, filled it with water from a nearby spring, and under these attentions the ladies somewhat recovered from their terrifying experience.

From Bert Wilson at the Wheel by J. W. Duffield

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

Madame," I said, "last night, as I lay in my bed, bethinking me of the morrow, and wondering what it held in store for me, I heard the sound of a woman weeping.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason