Sweet are the uses of adversity! even such as befell the egg symbolised by Humpty-Dumpty. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
In the ordinary scenes of ordinary life, such as befell her during her visit to Fawn Court, she could not acquit herself well. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
"And why should she not try to save her lad from capture or ambuscade such as befell the Hessian commissary with the provisions that you --". From Wordnik.com. [Thankful Blossom] Reference
The ant will never know what fate befell its kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Eusociality] Reference
Standing near the golden kiosk, it befell my lot to meet. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
A ludicrous adventure in the water once befell Captain Marryat. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
I have no time to tell you of several marvelous things that befell. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Such a fate befell Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj at the '96 Olympics. From Wordnik.com. [Who To Watch] Reference
A minute, and of what befell him after that he was quite unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
"I will save Claire Keith from the suffering that befell me," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
His death was universally deplored as the greatest calamity that ever befell. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
A young teacher who was observing in the room at the time told me what befell. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
I came down this morning in the most industrious mood, when the misfortune befell. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When the Thirty had removed these I think you know many misfortunes befell the state. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
How can we contemplate through the imagination the horrors that befell the 14th and 20th centuries?. From Wordnik.com. [Did You Hear The One About Plato?] Reference
Modibjah, taught me, whatever difficulties and dangers befell me, to pronounce the word Haschanascha. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
But that's just meager punishment compared to the tragedy that befell Donnie Moore after that same season. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Anxiety Of The Relief Pitcher] Reference
This is not the place to tell of the miserable disputes and squabbles that befell the little Spanish colony. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
My courtship also and marriage, which befell in the year 1674, had great effect in obliterating past transactions. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
The change did not come easily, and a great many wonderful adventures befell him, which I am going to tell you now. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
But by far the most curious episode of this nature was that which befell Tom Killigrew, the poet, grandfather of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
He was scoping out new opportunities in Moscow like any decent modern capitalist when an unfortunate fate befell him. From Wordnik.com. [Global Mafia] Reference
But first, it is our pleasure to report all the terrible things that befell "Lemony Snicket" on its path from page to screen. From Wordnik.com. [PERFECTLY MISERABLE] Reference
Or maybe genius requires an intellectual crisis, as befell physics around the time Einstein was working as a Swiss patent clerk. From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle Of Genius] Reference
An amusing little series of pictures, drawn and written, setting forth the accidents which befell a 'Dutchman' in catching a fly. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Bless you! no! Miranda never expected anything from a young man for herself, but she was keenly interested in what befell other girls. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Union leaders have been beaten up by police, a fate that also befell dozens of teachers staging a peaceful demonstration in early March. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
This he maintained whatever befell him, whether incarceration in Colditz as a PoW or in reporting the communist show trials of postwar Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Burn obituary] Reference
In the first place, though I was left little money by my father, both on account of his misfortunes and the calamity that befell the city, yet. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Some of the problems that befell the Philadelpia Phillies in losing two of three games to the Washington Nationals appear to be minor and fixable. From Wordnik.com. [The Phillies' closer problem] Reference
But he was given a good bed in which to sleep, and he passed a delightful night, dreaming of the wonderful adventures which befell him in the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
That he was the cause of all the evils which befell the state and is not worthy to be pitied by a single one, I think I can show you in a few words. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
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