Befell

Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.

A most horrible thing befell him.

A misfortune befell him.

Mary's faith helped her get through the tragedy that befell her.

A cruel mental illness befell me, and convulsed my brain quite horribly.

The good fairy who had saved her life by condemning her to sleep a hundred years was in the kingdom of Matakin, twelve thousand leagues off, when this accident befell the Princess; but she was instantly informed of it by a little dwarf, who had seven-leagued boots, that is, boots with which he could stride over seven leagues of ground at once.

But their extraordinary prosperity was attended by some equally singular family misfortunes, of which that which befell their eldest daughter was at once unaccountable and melancholy.

What befell him was precisely what he feared.

A tragedy befell Lorenzo’s family.

The heroine was a famous member of the Russian Imperial Ballet who, though she had not then danced in London—her genius being too precious in her own country—had been here unprofessionally as a sightseer; and it was here that the adventure which is the foundation of this narrative befell.