259 collocations for befalling

he said to himself that nothing of the sort had befallen the Big Chimney men any more than to the whipped and bankrupt crew struggling down there on the wharf.

So look well to thyself, I say, or ill may befall thee as well as all the thieving knaves in Nottinghamshire.

Faithfully hold to it, without any deflection; for if within the four seas necessity and want befall the people, your own revenue will forever come to an end.

The elder, Brewster, was deeply moved at the misfortune that had befallen his young friend, Henrich.

The mother, the beautiful Gúlshaher, seeing what had befallen her son, rushed out of the fort in a state of frenzy, and flying to him, clasped him in her arms in an agony of grief.

Had it ever yet befallen any young woman in the world to wish with secret intensity that she might have been, for her convenience, a shade less inordinately pretty?

The little girl had soon to experience the greatest loss that can befall a child.

When Pericles heard of the disaster which had befallen his army, he returned in all haste to assist them.

The worst had befallen the house; there was nothing to guard.

Rustem, and Gúdarz, and Tús, at length heard of what had befallen the king, and with feelings of sorrow not unmixed with indignation, set off to his assistance.

Think, Maud, that we are on the point of a war, and how bitterly you would regret it, should any accident befall your brother, and your memory not be able to recall the time passed among us, in his last visit, with entire satisfaction.

Crabbe was leaving the Vale of Belvoir because an accession of fortune had befallen the family, and it was pleasanter to live in his native county and in a better house.

Much the same fate has befallen the churches within the walls of Southampton.

" Esther hereupon briefly related the misfortunes that had befallen her father.

A Moor observed, "I hope to see any calamity befall the country rather than that of the slaves being liberated," He observed: "God shews his approbation of slavery by not permitting slaves to rise against their masters, or the free negroes to invade Morocco, who are infinitely more numerous.

Strange things meantime had befallen our nation in the West.

This was the fate which was befalling our race at home and abroad as the year 1847 closed.

Comes Home for the Third Time More than three years have passed since the Rose sailed out from Bideford, and never a word has reached England of what has befallen the ship and her company.

It was but a few days after Henrich's capture that this heavy affliction befell the colony, and added greatly to the gloom which the loss of young Maitland had already cast over the whole village.

But since his return to Vienna, unprecedented disasters had befallen England; a whole army had laid down its arms; the ultimate success of the Americans seemed to every statesman in Europe to be assured, and the prospect gave such encouragement to the war party in the French cabinet that Louis could resist it no longer.

Canst thou tell us what dreadful thing hath befallen this city? MERCHANT.

Mr. Allen, who owned the chief of the property about Fullerton, the village in Wiltshire where the Morland family lived, was ordered to Bath for the benefit of a gouty constitution; and his lady, a good-humoured woman, fond of Miss Morland, and probably aware that if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village she must seek them abroad, invited her to go with them.

If any mishap had befallen that boy, he would shrink from returning to Acredale.

If he meant to return to Farawayand there was no reason why he should nothe dared not let any harm befall the girl.

The unfortunate man was labouring under one of the greatest calamities which can befall a human creature.

259 collocations for  befalling