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Definition of Befallen
1. befall [v] - See also: befall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Befallen
Literary usage of Befallen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... and many other horrors having befallen them in tbeir straits for food, and
gomo having even eaten ouo another ; under these circumstance, . ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"... him to relate what had befallen him. This he did, and the peasants at once
determined to go to the little hut in the field of Inami, which was well ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"Which treats of the Adventure which gave more pain to Don Quixote than all which
till then had befallen him. THE wife of Don Antonio Moreno, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... and of all the misery that had befallen them, as if all had happened in that
very spot; and especially of the fate of their lord. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He pictured the evils which had befallen Germany, "once the first of all nations
in fidelity, religion, piety, and divine worship", and warned his hearers ..."
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