Nor do I fear for my works: no evil can befal them; and whosoever shall understand them, he shall be freed from all such misery as burthens mankind.
Yet the feeling of joy was tempered by a universal regret, to see so gifted an individual labouring under an infliction the most cruel that could befal an artist in that profession for which Nature had destined him.
So take my advice ere a calamity befal thee; and when they bring thee thy fodder eat it and rise up and bellow and paw the ground, or our master will assuredly slay thee: and peace be with thee!
But after this there occurreth a sign respecting a matter which will befal thee and whereof I will not speak.
The Wazir was again moved to fury and blamed and reproached her, ending with, "In very deed I fear lest the same befal thee which befel the Bull and the Ass with the Husbandman.
The Wazir was again moved to fury and blamed and reproached her, ending with, "In very deed--I fear lest the same befal thee which befel the Bull and the Ass with the Husband man.
All those evils that befal mankind in consequence of transgression, may be mitigated, or removed, or otherwise the penalty may be averted, by repentance and obedience to the requisitions of the Holy Bible.
Return, therefore, to thy lord in haste and tell him this, ere evil befal him.
And indeed, at the time of thy birth, the astrologers assured thy sire that all manner troubles should befal thee.
Najmah mourned over him; then, fearing lest the like calamity befal herself, snatched up her lover and flew with him to his father's palace, where she cast him down at the gate.
And if nothing happens without his knowledge, he knows that I am here, and am in a dreadful condition; and if nothing happens without his appointment, he has appointed all this to befal me.
Thus it was the whole party returned a long while after dark across the fields, with all the various accidents that were likely to befal such an assemblage of people.
For him I sorrow yet more than for my lord, and I tremble and fear for him lest aught befal him, whether, it may be, amid that folk where he is gone, or in the deep.
Sayest thou that this is the worst hap that can befal a man?
For there she said the most dreadful mischief would befal us.
Wherefore no half-wrought doom shallbefal the wooers every one, nor shall any avoid death and the fates.
Oh the alteration that will befal a foolish virgin!
Justifies the ways of Providence, let what willbefal her: and argues with exemplary greatness of mind on this subject.
But, however this be, it is good, when calamities befal us, that we should look into ourselves, and fear.
Before he went to the battle of Sherriff Muir, he arranged his affairs so as to be prepared for the worst result that might befal his family.
So, when she came up to her, she fell to kissing and embracing her, and Shaykh Iblis cried, "Fair befal the accolade!
Then he farewelled her and mounted, saying, "When this cometh about, pass over to the Crescent Mountain and take up thine abode there, and await what shall befal me and what I shall say to thee.
Or is not the being threatened with danger sufficient to excite a dread, though we think not of any particular evil likely to befal us, nor yet frame to ourselves an idea of danger in abstract?
The Sultan accepted the gift and largessed him in return, and at even-tide the skipper craved leave of return to his ship fearing lest any harm befal vessel or passengers.
Quoth she, "Nay, thou must eat and gladness shall befal thee.
Indeed I dissuaded him, saying so-and-so shall befal thee, but I could not deter him.
Now when this mighty great matter befel me, I said to myself, 'Ho certain person, there remaineth upon this good luck no better luck; and haply there will befal thee somewhat contrary to this.
So the ancient dame said to her, "O my lady, no harm shall befal thee; yet is thy case changed into other case and thy colour hath turned to yellow.
She is in the ward of the Kazi al'-Askar, to whose household haply she belongeth or to some great man in the quarter, and we fear lest befal her of evil matters some matter and we shall come to be transgressors.
I desire, however, that thou relate to me the cause of the blows upon thy body and no harm shall befal thee.
Now our Lord doth show, in this verse, partly what doth and shall befal to the reprobate after this life is ended, where he saith, 'And in hell he lifted up his eyes.
Did ye not once swear that no change should befal you?
On that day shall faces beam with light, Outlooking towards their Lord; And faces on that day shall be dismal, As if they thought that some great calamity would befal them.
A conceit that cannot befal his greatest enemy, or him that would induce the same in us; who hath a sensible apprehension hereof, for he believeth with trembling.
That it was abundantly sufficient to reconcile the mind to any of these mischances, to reflect that they are liable to befal the wisest of mankind, and are undoubtedly for the good of the whole.
The fary gave the man a box of ointment with which to anoint the child's eyes; but he had not on any account to touch himself with it, or some misfortune would befal him.
Afterwards he sees the fary's husband stealing corn in the market, when similar consequences befal him as those which occurred unto the woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "befal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
