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If she writes to you otherwise than as I shall dictate; if she does not, when she has bethought herself, break with you once and forever,—all's over between us!

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

The Prince has bethought himself to pay me for my kindness to him.

From King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays by Dell, Floyd

Is this boy of Nazareth the first who has bethought him of playing the part of a Messiah?

From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Sue, Eugène

A miller has bethought him of putting the brook, which used to flow so gaily through the fields, to work.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander