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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
betide .
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Examples
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“Wait till to-morrow when we will visit this garden and note its condition and see what betideth us with the care-taker.”
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Endure then with patience that which thou sufferest, for verily thou deservest all that betideth thee! —
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Nevertheless he who hath wings hath no repose at most seasons, for that the good he getteth is not a fourth part of what ill betideth him, and the highmost aims of the creature are repose and ease of life.
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the Seaman continued: — But when I had bestridden the plank, quoth I to myself, Thou deservest all that betideth thee.
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But thou departest from us at peep of day and returnest not to us till sundown, wherefore there betideth us extreme desolation.
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King of the age, (Allah advance thee!) these white slaves and women and negroes befit only Kings and hadst thou ordered me ready money, it were more profitable to me than this army; for they must eat and drink and dress, and whatever betideth me of wealth, it will not suffice for their support.
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“Whatever good betideth thee is from God, and whatever betideth thee Of evil is from thyself”: rank Manichæism, as pronounced as any in Christendom.
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But now I will not leave thee between this place and Baghdad, and what betideth thy comrade shall betide thee.
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Said his wife, “Put thy trust in Allah, for no harm betideth him whom He protecteth, and carry him with thee this very day to the shop.”
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Quoth I, “O maid, and what betideth thee of thy love for this man?”
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