Betide

//bɪˈtaɪd//

"Betide" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Woe betide him!

Woe betide the child who speaks correct English; he will be the laughing-stock of his classmates.

No one can find happiness without work. Woe betide the lazy fellow! Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end.

And in the cloud unseen, / wrapt in its hollow covering, they abide / and note what fortune did their friends betide, / and whence they come, and why for grace they sue, / and on what shore they left the fleet to bide, / for chosen captains came from every crew, / and towards the sacred fane with clamorous cries they drew.

Why wayle we then? why weary we the Gods with playnts, / As if ſome euill were to her betight? / She raignes a goddeſſe now emong the ſaintes, / That whilome was the ſaynt of ſhepheardes light: / And is enſtalled nowe in heauens hight.

Why, how now, countrymen! Why flock you thus to me in multitudes? What accident's betided to the Jews?

More health and happines betide my liege, / Then can my care tunde tongue deliuer him.

But woe betide the wandering wight, / That treads its circle in the night.

Ill betide those foul birds that delight to file their own nest, and disgust the ear with perpetual discord of ill-omened croak.

If he were dead what would betide of me.

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[W]ipe thou thine eyes, haue comfort, / The direfull ſpectacle of the wracke which touch'd / The very vertue of compaſſion in thee: / I haue with ſuch prouiſion in mine Art / So ſafely ordered, that there is no ſoule / No not ſo much perdition as an hayre / Betid to any creature in the veſſel / Which thou heardſt cry, which thou ſaw'ſt ſinke: […]

The death of my ſon betiding while my ſoul was under this anxiety, I thought of nothing but reſigning my dominions, and retiring for ever from the ſight of mankind.

Be not dismayed whate'er betide, / God will take care of you; / Beneath his wings of love abide, / God will take care of you.

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