Befalls
[bɪ'fɔ:lz]
Examples
- In that way Lydgate put the question--not quite in the way required by the awaiting answer; but such missing of the right word befalls many seekers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I would I had not trusted Malkin to his keeping, for, crippled as I am with the cold rheum, I am undone if aught but good befalls her. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Put thy trust in him and, no matter what befalls thee here, he will make all right hereafter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When the mental is regarded as a self-contained separate realm, a counterpart fate befalls bodily activity and movements. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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