Word: bethought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, he told the court, one of his wives came down with a nervous ailment, and when doctors failed to help her, Barzilai bethought himself of a miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel...
Cleve packed the sturgeon in ice and shipped it off to Yeovil to Fishmonger Tom Moore, who in turn earmarked it for a local hotel. After these practical matters had been attended to, Cleve bethought himself of form, and sent a telegram offering the fish to the Queen. Next day the startling reply came back from Sandringham, where the Queen was vacationing. "Your very kind offer accepted. Please send fish to comptroller...