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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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