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A most horrible thing befell him.
A misfortune befell him.
Nothing more befell them.
"[119] It is not to be wondered at if during the troubles which befell the nation in King Charles' reign, police suffered in common with all other institutions.
The value of the property destroyed and stolen by the mob, whilst the machinery for keeping the peace was thus temporarily out of gear, was comparatively trivial, and probably fell short of the £7000 paid as compensation; a far more serious factor was the loss of prestige that befell the police.
We doubt whether any marked event, for good or evil, ever befell New England, from its settlement down to revolutionary times, of which the inhabitants had not been previously warned by some spectacle of its nature.
I next drew up that will to which you so much objected; so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr.
We know what fate befell each one of the other heroes who fought at Troy, but as regards Ulysses heaven has hidden from us the knowledge even that he is dead at all, for no one can certify us in what place he perished, nor say whether he fell in battle on the mainland, or was lost at sea amid the waves of Amphitrite.
The same experience befell him as Golenishtchev, who felt that he had nothing to say, and continually deceived himself with the theory that his idea was not yet mature, that he was working it out and collecting materials.
He promised to communicate with me, when anything befell him; and he slung his bag about him, took his hat and stick, and bade us both 'Good-bye!
We believe-Mas'r Davy, me, and all of us-that you are as innocent of everything that has befell her, as the unborn child.
An evil fate of this kind befell a friend of mine from Gloucestershire who went to live in Germany near a town called Scheidt , the pronunciation of which proved to substantiate his worst misgivings.
Now, it has not been enough observed, how, in the seventeenth century, a fate befell Hellenism in some respects analogous to that which befell it at the commencement of our era.
"I was a good man before the king, I saved the population in the dire calamity which befell all the land, I shielded the weak against the strong, I did all good things when the time came to do them, I was pious towards my father, and did the will of my mother, I was kind-hearted towards my brethren .
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