When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. From LearnThat.org. [Marcus Aurelius, Source: Meditations]
Verb (used with object) : He bethought himself a moment. ,to bethink oneself of family obligations. ,She lives in the past now, bethinking herself of happier days. ,Under the circumstances I could not otherwise bethink me. From Dictionary.com.
But I bethink me, shall I give her something to eat?. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
The mere well-informed will bethink themselves of BROWNE. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
In the old days, I bethink me, 'twas I that was always found out. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
He tried to bethink himself of some plan of lowering his enemy's colors. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
I bethink me that I was very much perturbed in my mind after this, albeit. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
“Be it so; only, bethink you that one of us will infallibly be killed.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
"The very clever may bethink themselves of Milton's 'subject of all verse.'". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
Yet bethink thee, that I see and hear on thy behalf what is hidden from thee. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
And it was she certainly who made him bethink him when she was asked to stay at. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
I feart it at first, but I didn't arter a bit, when I'd time to bethink me a little. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
I bethink me that I more fully sympathized with her than was my wont, simply because. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Meantime, it was necessary for us to bethink ourselves on some new plan of subsistence. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
London -- cultivating literature in the Temple; his praenomen, I bethink me, is Edmund. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
And, I bethink me, he said that the sahib's khansaman was one of these men with lying lips. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
And then to fly into a passion and seize you, and afterward bethink myself too late and say. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Then keep ships no longer on the sparkling sea, but bethink you to till the land as I bid you. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Friend, bethink you first what it is you would do, and then what your own nature is able to bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
The affair of the wolf having passed off so well, Alan began to bethink himself of other adventures. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1] Reference
I bethink me that I have said "friend Barbara" at some parts of this narration, at others simply "Barbara.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Israel chanced to bethink himself of a certain aged farmer living with his old wife near a spot called Lee's. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
I bethink me, too, that our old jurists always make the law presume this goodness to exist, at the outset, '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
He was out, in truth, as far as it was possible to be, and must now rather bethink himself of getting in again. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
I bethink me that I would rather that her friendliness and cheerfulness might in a measure depend upon me for existence. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
But thus Emmanuel carried it now, and by this his carriage he sought to make them bethink themselves, and return to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy War] Reference
And I bethink me, too, that in the course of my peregrinations on this planet I have more than once heard the name of one. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
Alice was aware that she had as yet hardly spoken herself, and began to bethink herself that she didn't know what to say. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
I bethink me it is high time to keep silence altogether; a little more, and I shall be proved to know absolutely nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Memorabilia] Reference
This he placed upon her road, for well he knew that should the Queen but mark his name she would bethink her of her friend. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
"An 'jist bethink ye, my lord: wad it be onything less nor an imposition to lat a man merry her ohn tellt him what she was?". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
"Agnes, bethink yourself!" said the white-haired dame; -- "the gentleman asks the price of your oranges; -- be alive, child!". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
"At another time, worthy Captain, it were a pleasure to accept thine invitation, but bethink thee that it is early in the day.". From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Nausicaa bade Odysseus bethink him of the inconvenient talk which his presence would occasion if he were seen with her near the city. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Give them, O Lord, well to bethink themselves what they say, and to find, that “never” cannot be predicated, when “time” is not. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
For the first plunge is not the last, and even if you do not gamble, bethink you that your moneyed tranquillity, your golden happiness, are in the care of a banker who may fail. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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