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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.

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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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If you have worked evil, you must bethink yourself of doing good.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

But let us say that the young man is bold and ingenious, and bethinks him of a stratagem whereby to make acquaintance with the damsel.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

ARGUMENT:—On his wanderings Everychild bethinks him of his parents, and discovers that though he has seemed to lose them, he has not really done so.

From Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old by Blanche Fisher Laite

But while she is preparing herself for this fate, she bethinks her of Antonio.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

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

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

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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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

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

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

And I, bethinking me that, in spite of his gloomy forecast, Lord Bolingbroke would none the less serve the King with unremitting vigour, began to take heart again, and so pardoned Leonard Ashlock.

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

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 threw a glance at them over my shoulder, bethinking me that I had not told the Duchess my story, and that Sir Anthony and Petronilla would never--but, pish!

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman