bethink

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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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But to the point, bethink your self well; a man may forget a thing to day, and recollect it to morrow.

From Citt and Bumpkin (1680) by L'Estrange, Sir Roger

But here, in trunk-upsetting Boston, I bethink me, and confess.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward