Befallen

Examples

• I have no doubt, Mr Twemlow, that you have heard of a reverse of fortune having befallen us. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In consequence of the disasters that had befallen us in the past few days, Lee could be reinforced largely, and I had no doubt he would be. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Wright, Nottingham bankers, but these bankers, figuring on the experience that had befallen the inventors of other spinning machines, soon withdrew their aid. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• That gallant officer at once knew what had befallen him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This release had befallen her some two years before; for anything I knew, she was married again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Pray compose yourself, sir, said Holmes, and let me have a clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• No incidents have hitherto befallen us, that would make a figure in a letter. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• What had befallen the kind-hearted Shirley that she should be so indifferent to the dreary position of a fellow-creature thus isolated under her roof? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We had shaken off Lord Mount-James, and Overton had gone to consult with the other members of his team over the misfortune which had befallen them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But what had befallen the night? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I had strange thoughts of what had befallen me, when the door of my dungeon creaked, and two villain monks entered. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Many sorrows have befallen man during his chequered course; and many a woe-stricken mourner has found himself sole survivor among many. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There stood the fair Evangeline, a little paler than the day before, but otherwise exhibiting no traces of the accident which had befallen her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Terrible have been the calamities that have befallen your great-grandsire's mighty nation since the fatal day that saw you leave our midst. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I hope no bereavement has befallen her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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