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Befall
"Befall" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.
No harm shall befall thee.
The witch told the girl what work she was to do. "You must keep the house clean and tidy, sweep the floor and the fireplace; but there is one thing you must never do. You must never look up the chimney, or something bad will befall you."
But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.
Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two. One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not. If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.
And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.
Protesters Sunday expressed some worry the same fate will befall the new wave of demonstrations.
Millions of people around the world who have seen the stage play know very well the tragedy that will befall that chandelier in this Gothic love story set in 1890's Paris and based on a novel first published in 1911.
At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands.
It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon [...] that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time.
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Temptation befell me.
But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred[…]
I beseech your grace that I may know / The worst that may befall me.
As we’ve said before, with the exception of communism itself, the euro has been the biggest economic catastrophe to befall the continent (and the world) since the 1930s.
This wasn't the last tragedy to befall Reading. There were fatal accidents involving trains in 1855 and 1914, while on a lesser scale T E Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his precious manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom when changing trains in 1919.
With a thought I tooke for Maudline & a cruse of cockle pottage. with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all: I befell into this dotage.
Or he had tolde al his befall.
This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.
He said "I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. …"
[...], the word "care" asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that "fall" does in the "befall" of "Infant Joy."
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