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Definition of Befell
1. befall [v] - See also: befall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Befell
Literary usage of Befell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"CHAPTER IX HOW STRANGE THINGS befell IN MINSTEAD WOOD THE path which the young
clerk had now to follow lay through a magnificent forest of the very heaviest ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"AND did ye not hear of a mirth befell The morrow after a wedding day, The quintain
was set, and the garlands were made, 'T is pity old customs should ever ..."
3. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth: From 1602-1625 by Alexander Young (1844)
"OF THE TROUBLES THAT befell THE FIRST PLANTERS UPON THE COAST OF ENGLAND, ...
13 ' " But what befell them further England's Memorial, page 33. ..."
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