“Surely we are all out of the computation of our age, and every man is some months elder than he bethinks him,” Browne wrote, “for we live, move, have a being and are subject to the actions of the elements, and malice of diseases, in that other world, the truest microcosm, the womb of our mother.” ❋ Annie Murphy Paul (2010)
For whoever comes into the witch prison must become a witch or be tortured until he invents something out of his head and – God pity him – bethinks him of something. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For whoever comes into the witch prison must become a witch or be tortured until he invents something out of his head and–God pity him–bethinks him of something. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A man is flushed with success, and bethinks himself what this good luck signifies. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In prose, he bethinks himself, one must not use the common words of daily speech. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was fond of her — almost too passionately fond, for her staider liking — but he was unused to thwart his own will in anything, least of all in those seeming trifles, for the consideration of which true selfishness bethinks itself. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This done, but not thinking himself yet secure enough, in the next place he bethinks himself of new modelling the town; and so he does, setting up one, and putting down another at pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Wherefore he bethinks him of another project, and that was, to persuade the men of the town that Mr. Recorder was mad, and so not to be regarded. ❋ Unknown (2001)
But fearing also lest this knot should break, he bethinks himself of another, to wit: ❋ Unknown (2001)
When Stephen is talking about Shakespeare's affection for his granddaughter, he suddenly bethinks himself, in a passage that the typist probably skipped because two closely succeeding paragraphs ended in ellipsis. ❋ Ellmann, Richard (1984)
As a last resource, Sakuntala bethinks herself of the ring given her by her husband, but on discovering that it is lost, abandons hope. ❋ R. N. Dutta (N/A)
After he has been striding along for a short time with a free, manly gait, he suddenly bethinks himself that he is writing a book. ❋ Various (N/A)
Even as when a toiling woman turns her spindle through the night, and round her moan her orphan children, for she is a widow, and down her cheeks fall the tears, as she bethinks her how dreary a lot hath seized her; so Medea's cheeks were wet; and her heart within her was in agony, pierced with sharp pain. ❋ Apollonius Rhodius (N/A)
Hrothgar, king of the Danes, lives happily and peacefully, and bethinks him to build a glorious hall called Hart. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
And he bethinks himself, -- does it lie somewhere under the harsh and dogmatic utterances of the Ashfield pulpit? ❋ Various (N/A)
Religion and philosophy touch at so many points -- have so many problems in common -- that the first moment the good man bethinks him he will be profound, sees him plunged in all the darkest enigmas of speculative thought, there to lose himself in we know not what heretical delusions. ❋ Various (N/A)
In this dilemma, Anne of Austria bethinks her of the man to whose address and courage she had, twenty years previously, been so deeply indebted; ❋ Various (N/A)
Then like the courteous dame that she is, she bethinks herself that she will make him to whom it will be joy and profit serve the potion. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (N/A)
