bethink

Verily, many of them once lifted their legs like the dancer; to them winked the laughter of my wisdom:--then did they bethink themselves.

This caused the Frenchman to bethink him of playing the coward.

"Our minds will play us strange pranks, and bethink you that these words of the Lady Tiphaine Du Guesclin have wrought upon us and shaken us."

I had inherited considerable wealth from my parents, and being young and foolish I at first squandered it recklessly upon every kind of pleasure, but presently, finding that riches speedily take to themselves wings if managed as badly as I was managing mine, and remembering also that to be old and poor is misery indeed, I began to bethink me of how I could make the best of what still remained to me.

BETHINK THE words of Nelson Mandela who said: "As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be low.

The Holy Qur'an says: 'Bethink thee of him who had and argument with Abraham about his Lord, because Allah had given him the kingdom; how, when Abraham said: My Lord is 'He Who gives life and causes death, he answered: I give life and cause death.Abraham said: 'Lo!Allah causesthe sun to rise in the east, so you do cause it to come up from the West.

Her speech has a strong note of social identification: "Remember who ye are," she says, "remember Christ too." This is not an individual matter: "Ye should bethink yourselves of your nation and your fame....

Being in bed, he did bethink himself, And coming down, he found the doors unshut.

Deciding to kill his wife, Othello sees Desdemona half-asleep and first suggests, "If you bethink yourself of any crime / Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace, / Solicit for it straight" (5.2.28-30).

In a comparable Homeric scene, Ajax exhorts his fellow Achaeans, whose resolve is weakening in the face of a Trojan onslaught, to "be men, my friends, and bethink you of furious might" (Iliad 15.734).