Example Sentences

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, I will talk no more of this; and we will bethink us of the means of getting him out of the hands of the Hurons.

From The Deerslayer by Cooper, James Fenimore

But then they will fear, and few will bethink them115 What they to Christ may venture to say.

From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by Garnett, James Mercer

And then again, demanding his name, she said, 'Fail you not to come to the court, and I will bethink myself how to do you good.'

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

"On thy return, my son," he said, "we will bethink us of a wife for thee."

From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington