Word: bethinks
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Zinn has decided that he can ignore Oliver Cromwell's eloquent plea: "In the bowels of Christ, I beseech you, bethink you that you may be mistaken...
...color and motion caused Fester J. Pupous '65 to bethink himself: "'Tis the season to be jolly. I shall go out and see how Christmas comes to the Square...
...Bethink yourselves. You have sinned against godliness and the laws of your fatherland. Farewell...
...that Miss Lowell adapted as a net to catch the crabbed dialect of her much-cherished New England. That dialect imposed restrictions upon her crystalline and pyrotechnic fancy, but only in the matter of actual words. 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. Similarly, the macabre, the delicately gruesome, of which Miss Lowell was so fond, is to be found quite as handily in a neurotic seafarer's terror of growing grass...
...suffice to save Cynthia from standing indicted for modernity's most prevalent shortcoming: emotional anemia induced by self-seeking and self-indulgence. The book is far too finely executed to be referred to solely as a moral essay. It is an intricate story sensitively told. Yet many readers will bethink themselves of many Cynthias and wonder if it is too late, or just timely, to pass the book along...