English example sentences with "befell"

Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.
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A most horrible thing befell him.
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A misfortune befell him.
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Mary's faith helped her get through the tragedy that befell her.
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A cruel mental illness befell me, and convulsed my brain quite horribly.
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The good fairy who had saved her life by condemning her to sleep a hundred years was in the kingdom of Matakin, twelve thousand leagues off, when this accident befell the Princess; but she was instantly informed of it by a little dwarf, who had seven-leagued boots, that is, boots with which he could stride over seven leagues of ground at once.
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But their extraordinary prosperity was attended by some equally singular family misfortunes, of which that which befell their eldest daughter was at once unaccountable and melancholy.
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What befell him was precisely what he feared.
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A tragedy befell Lorenzo’s family.
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The heroine was a famous member of the Russian Imperial Ballet who, though she had not then danced in London—her genius being too precious in her own country—had been here unprofessionally as a sightseer; and it was here that the adventure which is the foundation of this narrative befell.
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A great disaster befell him.
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He erased from his memory what befell him.
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We have no idea what befell us.
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He has no idea what befell me.
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