But she reached the firm, unyielding Rock, with no worse misfortune than a drenching befalling her, and made her way to the warm and comfortable precincts of her kitchen, with many ejaculations of delight and thankfulness.
But there was no prospect of any such fortunebefalling him, and he usually turned away from the cluster of dirty, unkempt children with a hopeless sigh.
In this connection I may remark that Jack Crawford is the only man I have ever known that could have brought that bottle of whiskey through without accident befalling it, for he is one of the very few teetotal scouts I ever met.
We were not yet in view of our wagons, as a rise of ground intervened, and therefore we could not signal the train-men in case of any unexpected danger befalling us.
Ay, who hears of such things befalling them but their own nation?
No, I do not," I replied: "I never heard of any injury befalling them.
This reviving interest in the literature of ancient Greece was vastly augmented by the disasters just now befalling the Greek empire (see p.
During her life at Northampton, she had dreamed of such things, with no expectation of their ever befalling her.
He seldom thought of his parents; none the less they represented his only true affection, and he became uncomfortable at the prospect of disaster befalling their latter years.
In the midst of the troubles befalling Italy as the consequence of these Pythagorean machinations, it is impossible to ascertain facts with certainty.
Among the latter many figuratively supposed that what we call visible nature is a mere illusion befalling the soul, because of its temporary separation from God.
In a representation of the common events befalling us in these times, upon an appreciation of which this history depends, one turns at whiles a languishing glance toward the vast potential mood, pluperfect tense.
If it was an accident befalling him in a London square during a space of a quarter of an hour, what of the sentiments of universal England?
By this elevation of view, we are necessarily raised far above the consideration of the petty events befalling ourselves.
Pity is grief for the calamity of another, arising from the imagination of the like calamity befalling one's self; the best men have, therefore, least pity for calamity arising from great wickedness.
The author has endeavored to enliven his narrative, and to infuse into it elements of a salutary moral influence, by means of personal incidents befalling the actors in the story.
We call the risk great, when either the evil which we are in danger of is great, or when the chance of its befalling us is great.
For the fiction and representation of evil acts, when it withal acquaints us with the shame and damage befalling the doers, hurts not but rather profits him that reads them.
To the internal and doctrinal troubles thus befalling the Church, material and foreign ones of the most vital importance were soon added.
Man's own folly will account perhaps for some evils befalling the righteous and some good coming to the wicked.
In fact the evils befalling man come under three categories.
And he considered that the accomplishment of his object was near at hand, for good luck, befalling one by the way indicates success in an undertaking.
Soon he hears of a shocking accident or distressing illness befalling the one whose voice he recognized in the dream.
For a young woman to dream that her lover has been reprieved, denotes that she will soon hear of some good luck befalling him, which will be of vital interest to her.
Pennyloaf would not believe in the possibility of this befallingher husband.
Otherwise, I shall live in dread of some other calamity befalling either Baby or me.
The story goes on to tell of great calamities befalling the fortunes of the Nawab; of battles fought in the neighbourhood between Hindus and Mohammedans, and the immediate withdrawal of the Moslems to another part of Bengal.
Mrs. Dale, though with an eye upon the child, was quietly talking to Mrs. Gray of the privileges and duties befalling the Christian.
In her broken childish way, Rosa told of the many and varied experiences befalling her and grandpa since mother moved.
I was in some saving way, as often happens in our lives, conscious of these familiar things, to which we return and cling in the accidents befalling us and in the emergencies of feeling we must all survive.
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