172 examples of betiding in sentences
Woe betide, too, the person who dreams that he is cutting grass.
"Now, ill betide thee, traitor staff," cried Robin, as it fell from his hands; "a foul stick art thou to serve me thus in mine hour of need.
Woe betide him, if he placed a mine or trained a gun upon this ship of ours.
But woe betide the tired soldier who attempts to escape the tropical rain by taking refuge on the floor.
If you labour or sell eggs, woe betide you in the day of reckoning."
O, 'tis an unthrift, still the churchmen's foe; An ill-end will betide him, that I know.
Widow or wife, or maiden if thou be, Lend me thy hand; thou seest I cannot see: Blessing betide thee, little feel'st thou want; With me, good child, food is both hard and scant.
Then, Doncaster, ourselves ourselves accurse, And let no good betide to thee or me!
But woe betide the silly dairymaids, For I shall fleet their cream-bowls night by night.
Now joy betide this merry morn, And keep Grim's forehead from the horn: For Robin bids his last adieu To Grim and all the rest of you.
Stand forth, Belphegor, and report the truth Of all things have betide thee in the world.
If she were displeased, if her preferences were not consulted, if her plans were interfered with, woe betide the first person who entered her presence; and still more woe betide the person who was responsible for her annoyance.
If she were displeased, if her preferences were not consulted, if her plans were interfered with, woe betide the first person who entered her presence; and still more woe betide the person who was responsible for her annoyance.
The best accord that could betide their loves.
The worst accord that could betide my love.
For prairie and mountain, windswept and high, For betiding beauty of earth and sky Say a benediction e'er you pass by.
Well might he have cried with his knightly ancestor of the "Round Table," "Me forethinketh this shall betide, but God may well foredoe destiny."
It had not risen easily, but when it did woe betide whatever or whomever it met in collision.
"And hence their quiet looks confiding, Hence grateful instincts seated deep, By whose strong bond, were ill betiding, They'd risk their own his life to keep.
Again, there are, I think, more than twenty redundant verbs which are treated by Crombie,and, with one or two exceptions, by Lowth and Murray also,as if they were always regular: namely, betide, blend, bless, burn, dive, dream, dress, geld, kneel, lean, leap, learn, mean, mulct, pass, pen, plead, prove, reave, smell, spell, stave, stay, sweep, wake, whet, wont.
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Woe betide them if they could not explain satisfactorily, first, why the raiders had been able to get to London at all, and, secondly, why they had been allowed to depart almost unscathed.
On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing, they betide ill to those who threw them in."
They are not in the least like, any more than they are like one another; but here they are, and if we can neither love nor understand them, woe betide us!