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'Our own Scottish archers, who will see no harm befall my blessed father's daughters.
Dame Lilias could not but think it only too likely; but she said 'the worst that could well befall the poor lassies in that case would be their detention until a ransom was paid, and if their situation was known, the King, the Dauphin, and the Duke of Brittany would be certain one or other to rescue them by force of arms, if not to raise the money.
No one ever dreamed of informing against him, owing to a superstitious belief amongst the peasants that evil would befall the man who did so, and all attempts of the Government to take any of the band were long futile.
Ill befall the yellow flowers, Children of the flaring hours, Buttercups that will be seen, Whether we will see or no; Others, too, of lofty mien, They have done as worldlings do, Stolen praise that should be thine, Little humble Celandine.
Antoine told me again to-day, that he loved Lucie dearly; “and,” he said, “I still watch over her, even now; tell her no evil will ever befall her.
She was, therefore, in a perilous condition at the very time[229] Antoine said: “I watch over her, even now; tell her, no evil will ever befall her.
The object with which it is proposed to deal should first be photographed, and from different sides if necessary; for the external appearance is often changed during the process of preservation, and it is advisable that a representation of the specimen in its original condition should be kept in case any injury should befall the object, which however rarely happens if proper caution be observed.
The duties connected with the capital sentence are, of course, infinitely the most trying of those which befall a High Sheriff; but even in other respects his lot is not an unmixed pleasure.
It is related how, on one occasion, after communication had with much difficulty been established with a stranded ship by means of the rocket apparatus, the onlookers rushed down and cut the hawser when only one man had been saved, because they believed that if the crew was rescued, ill-luck would befall the district.
And at an instant the most momentous that can befall a puny child of clay?
I reasoned as I had reasoned already without knowing it,-if that be reasoning,-in case any harm should befall him through my not going, how could I ever forgive myself!
These biscuits, should anything befall me, would keep me, at least, from starving till far on in the next day.
At length, having spoken one day, in tears, of the last sad change which must befall Humanity, she thenceforward dwelt only upon this one sorrowful theme, interweaving it into all our converse, as, in the songs of the bard of Schiraz, the same images are found occurring, again and again, in every impressive variation of phrase.
Kenneth says he would wager his mare that he’ll outlive any man on this side Gimmerton, and go to the grave a hoary sinner; unless some happy chance out of the common course befall him.
Even though the gods themselves willed it no such good fortune could befall me.
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