bethink
verb (used with object)
to think; consider (used reflexively).
was bethinking
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past progressiveof bethink.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Outhouse bowed, and was bethinking himself slowly what manner of speech he would adopt.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
The cherry-brandy had already evaporated before the blaze of all that beauty, and he was bethinking himself how he might best take himself off.
From The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope
But while he was bethinking himself what great words to use, when he should arrive thither, he felt himself slipping from the friar's broad back.
From Robin Hood by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden
My vespers were done, and I was bethinking me of retiring to rest, when I heard the plaintive voice of Ethel beseeching me to let her come within my tent.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
Miss Perry was bethinking her of something suitable and manly to say when the door opened and Mr. Benson was announced.
From Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
