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And the characters are so superficial that we hardly care which of these different fates may befall them.
The worst economic calamity to befall a family, and especially women and children, is divorce.
First he had a dream in the night, which foreshowed him truly the evils that were about to befall him in the person of his son.
The forms of common worship are sufficient to all the joys and sorrows that befall us in this vale of tears.
There are many 19 th-century illustrations of the disastrous possibilities that could befall a whaling boat at close quarters with a whale.
We read regularly about the horrors that can befall our planet if we upset the fine ecological balance.
Jeannie ends up as a servant in a great house, where various things befall her.
Was that old woman she met earlier telling the truth, and that she really was warning Alli of a possible danger that could befall her?
Summoning emergency help should an injury befall a walker would have been almost impossible.
The theft had been the latest in a series of misfortunes to befall the memorial garden.
Mrs. Winchester believed ill would befall her if she ever stopped altering her sprawling mansion.
She was so young as to not understand the ink her name was written in, and unconscious of it, and all that was to befall her.
And at this point you maybe thinking that collapses are something that befall only Polynesians and Native Americans, we Europeans would surely never make such mistakes.
Our holy father had been moved by his concern for the greatest catastrophe to befall humankind, namely sin.
Such a dispiriting fate should not befall Lawrie on this occasion.
Know this: that you cannot go your own way without knowing of the sin that is to befall you.
And if they cease not from what they say, verily, a painful torment will befall the disbelievers among them.
Information about the neurologic and psychological changes that may befall young TBI victims is scarce.
Her daily missives chronicle the longing and insecurity that often befall long-distance relationships and eventual breakups.
Winston Churchill said that no fate is destined to inevitably befall us, except where we do nothing to prevent it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She, indeed, was ill-pleased with the tidings and felt instinctively that some calamity was about to befall.
In full sight of whom, the malignant star of the analytical has pre-ordained that pain and ridicule shall befall him.
For the life of me I cannot realize anything that may, or may not, befall me remotely.
It may befall that even such giant operators as masticator B. Fellows find themselves embarrassed.
We extend to Mr. P. our sincere sympathy in the greatest calamity that can befall an unmarriageable man.
It must be confessed that they have not wholly escaped the fate that is apt to befall the progeny of parturient mountains.
He answered, that no worser should befall him than he had caused to better men than he.
What will be our fate in the frenzy, so to speak, that shall befall the world in its dotage?
Can it be that you are indeed curious to know what will befall when he returns?
Roma, if I allowed these misfortunes to befall you it was only to let you feel what others could do for you.
Whatever evils may befall you, they will not be occasioned by my instrumentality, that I solemnly promise you.
Now that he was gone, he had moved about in daily dread and trembling, not knowing what might befall him next.
It was a foretaste which God gave me of what was to befall me.
Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.
Without a hand to guide and guard her, what evils might not befall?
I'll throw him overboard before such a disgrace befall us or him.
So look well to thyself, I say, or ill may befall thee as well as all the thieving knaves in Nottinghamshire.
I would have no ill befall her, but I am glad to be rid of her.
He knew too well what would befall him in Aten's hands if he did.
Their entire being was reduced to a monotonous dead level of patience, resignation, dumb uncomplaining acceptance of whatever might befall them in this life.
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