befall

• Think rather of what is certain to befall, and that is that I shall come back a rich man, rich enough to enable me to realise all my wishes and ambitions. —  Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
• Not that they were actually alarmed, of course, but they felt that in such unusual circumstances the least they could do was to be ready for whatever might befall--or turn up A moment later and Aglootook stalked into the cabin, his legs encased in a pair of fishermen's sea-boots, so large that they seemed quite to diminish his natural proportions In all their discoveries, however, they did not find a single scrap of any kind of food. —  The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
• And as the fortunes of the trail sometimes befall, they raised an Indian camp on the bank of the river at the mouth of the cańon. —  North of Fifty-Three
• Ornulf has stood thy friend, forsooth, and there is peace between us; but I counsel thee not to seek thy home yet awhile; the man thou slewest has many avengers, and it well might befall---- See, I have shown thee the danger; thou must e'en take what follows. —  The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III.
• Give him honour as may befall, and full allowance of work, but look to it, O King, that neither he nor his hold a foot of earth from thee henceforward. —  The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling

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