If, while passing under the ladder, a hod of bricks should fall through it and strike you on the head, then an "accident or affliction" shall have befallen you: otherwise not.

Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any which had befallen the sport in an organized sense from a professional standpoint.

The Colonel discovered that the same thing had befallen the toes of his left foot.

But in that country His face is hidden, and even to name His name is anguish,for then only do men understand what has befallen them, who can say that name no more.'

Bayard was quite broken-hearted at the misfortune which had befallen him, although it was certainly not his fault, but there is more chance in war than in anything else.

He had already heard of the misfortune; and he too, instead of being sorry for the poor creature, regarded what had befallen it, without being exactly ready to confess it to himself, as a convenient accident, through which the only impediment in the way of his happiness was at once removed.

How it was with him there were numberless ways in which she might have discovered, for every soul of her acquaintance knew Andrew, and must be aware of the fact if he were missing or ailing, or if any other ill chance had befallen him.

Even the Cabinet Ministers and other officials who had accompanied the Government in its flight to Antwerp were unable to learn what had befallen the families which they had in many cases left behind them.

No such loss had befallen the Company for many years.

The storm was already of two hours' duration, and Ben would have certainly returned to the cave unless disaster had befallen him.

The inference was obvious: whatever disaster had befallen him must have occurred within a few hundred yards of the cave.

On the night upon which such strange chances had befallen his messengers, the king sat alone in his cabinet.

It was clear to the American that some sudden calamity had befallen, so he aided his comrade and the grooms to saddle and bridle.

He bore no malice against his wife by reason of that which had befallen, for well he knew that it, was by force, and not according to her will.

" "For what reason, lady?" "Certes," answered she, "for reason of the great shame which had befallen her.

What ill has befallen you, that you durst prove false to me?

When I met mother and sister yesterday on my return from your house, I saw that something was the matter of which they hesitated to tell me; and of whom should I naturally think but of youyou in whom my life is bound up; and, when mother finally came to put her arms around me, I suffered for the moment that intensity of anguish which I should feel in knowing that something dreadful had befallen you.

What, for example, might have befallen him if he had worked with Signorelli, it is difficult to imagine; for while nothing is more obvious on the one hand than Raphael's originality, his strong assimilative bias is scarcely less remarkable.

By his extensive resources, with funds enlarged and credit fortified, he easily put right what had befallen only, perhaps, through his absence, and set out for Scotland to exact justice from Rashleigh Osbaldistone.

"I will leave you in his care while I go and see what has befallen the King and Queen.

I must go to the Tuileries and find out what has befallen their Majesties and then I will return.

Then he realized that it was impossible to help her even through the hazard of telling her what had befallen; that no such effect as was to be desired could be anticipated from the outside.

But by that very circumstance I knew Otho had not revealed how his accident had befallen.

Had any accident befallen her on the road?

You must consent to be taught; you cannot possibly know everything!" They fixed a time for the morrow, and Bernardine went off with the camera; and meeting Marie on the staircase, confided to her the piece of good fortune which had befallen her.