Burns never tried to conceal either his joys or his sorrows: he sent copies of his favorite pieces, and intimations of much that befel him to his chief friends and comrades--this brief note was made to carry double.
It is not necessary here to detail the many adventures that befel our plant-hunter and his party, during the progress of their journey towards the Himalayas, and after they had entered within the grand gorges of these mountains.
During their residence in the place, many adventures befel them with wild animals of various kinds.
Skinner hastened to save himself from the fate which in 1681 befel Locke, and gave up to the Secretary of State, not only the Latin letters, but the MS.
There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expence of his best blood, or of his life if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron.
In 1810, our father thought fit to marry a second time; but a great misfortune befel his children in the death of their grandfather.
The catastrophe of the Medusa is already known to the public, as one of the most awful and appalling that ever befel any class of human beings.
We shall not anticipate the narrative of what befel Madame Godin in her voyage down this river; but it will not probably be denied to present as extraordinary a series of perils, adventures, and escapes, as are anywhere to be found on record.
That no material injury befel Owyn from them, and that neither were his means crippled, nor his resolution daunted, is testified by the inroads which, not long after, he made into England with redoubled impetuosity.
Soon after then (befel it afterward) The Prince was then discharged of counsaile.
These fasts are held on different occasions for various reasons, and purposes; such as days of repentance, humiliation, and of calamity and misfortune which befel the nation in the several ages of persecution.
Could Henry have known of the sad calamity which befel him that very Easter, his rejoicings would have been turned into mourning.
To save his life, he left his spear on the field of battle, a disgrace which likewise befeltwo of his companions.
The same fate befel almost all the other estates of the Spaniards, which being now destitute of beef, and the fruits of the earth having been consumed long ago, they began to be at a loss for provisions.
The same fate at the same time befel the Jews, who had admitted Italian proselytes to their sabbath.
In the negative I replied, reflecting upon the strange story of the escape of this man beyond the confines of Ea, and wondering what adventures befel him.
He never returned hither, for on the day the calamity befel us Anu was wroth, a great earthquake occurred, and the gate by which he made his exit became closed for ever.
Footnote 194] Whatever may have been her trials in a convent, they could hardly have equalled those which befel her as queen.
And then, as already had happened to our Verse, to our Prose too there befel a miracle.
Hit befelon Whitsontide, Erly in a May mornyng, The Son up feyre can shyne, And the briddis mery can syng.
The scrupulous proprietors of Waddow Hall regarded the innocuous image with distrust and aversion; nor did they think themselves otherwise than justified in ascribing to Peggy all the evils and mischances that befel in the house.
And that since this trouble befel her, her spirit hath left her, and she never saw him since.
One day he was playing at chess, and his sword lay beside him, and it befel that one angered him, and he was slain with his own sword.
Both to Jeremiah and to his adversaries the land was Iahvah's land; what befel it must have happened by His will, or at least with His consent.
With the graphic force of a keen observer, who is also a poet, the priest of Anathoth has thus depicted for all time the collapse of terror which befel his contemporaries, on the rumoured approach of the Scythians in the reign of Josiah.
We have at present nothing to do with their journey, or any incident of it, except that which befel two of the party that evening in a commonplace hotel overlooking the Rhine.
This was mainly attributable to an accident that befel Xit in his hurry to escape.
III Hit befel on Whitsontide, Erly in a May mornyng, The Son up feyre can shyne, And the briddis mery can syng.
II As it befel in merry Barnsdale, And under the green-wood tree, The Bishop of Hereford was to come by, With all his companye.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "befel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
