bethinks

“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.”

Origins 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.

An old, sad story of torture « Skulls in the Stars 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.

Torture Works « Lean Left 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.

2007 December 13 « Lean Left 2007

A man is flushed with success, and bethinks himself what this good luck signifies.

Representative Men 2006

In prose, he bethinks himself, one must not use the common words of daily speech.

The Common Reader, Second Series 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.

For the term of his natural life 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.

The Holy War 2001

But fearing also lest this knot should break, he bethinks himself of another, to wit:

The Holy War 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.

The Holy War 2001