bethink

“Now. All night, I lay and I bethought myself—how to leave so I won’t be forgot? And behold.”

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."

Truly, truly, if they rightly bethink themselves and acknowledge the truth, I shall have them for witnesses that they are licking honey off thorns.

I will go to him at once, Ella," he said; "and before my return you had better bethink you of what course you will pursue, in case your kinsman should not be with the Count.

At length I bethought me of the fire, and taking a piece of charcoal I scrawled the words on the under side of my table.