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In that way Lydgate put the question -- not quite in the way required by the awaiting answer; but such missing of the right word befalls many seekers.

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

In that way Lydgate put the question -- not quite in the way required by the awaiting answer; but such missing of the right word befalls many seekers.

Middlemarch 1871

In that way Lydgate put the question -- not quite in the way required by the awaiting answer; but such missing of the right word befalls many seekers.

Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

It was rolled, watered and attended to with an assiduity such as befalls few spots of ground in the world.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

His extraordinary freshness of spirit easily carried Arnold, Herbert Spencer, myself, and afterwards many others, high over an occasional crudity or haste in judgment such as befalls the best of us in ardent hours.

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1920

His death, however, had not been like that of an ordinary man; it was not Namtaru, the spirit of fate, who had taken him, nor a misfortune such as befalls ordinary men, but

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895

Given health and strength, he might perhaps continue to hold his own in this merciless conflict; perhaps, only; but what if some accident, such as befalls this man or that in every moment of time, threw him among the weaklings?

Will Warburton George Gissing 1880

Carmichael had a sudden revulsion of feeling, such as befalls emotional and ill-disciplined natures when they are disappointed and mortified.

Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878

Carmichael had a sudden revulsion of feeling, such as befalls emotional and ill-disciplined natures when they are disappointed and mortified.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

The negative side of the each of us being responsible for all that befalls us is that no one else has to take responsibility.

You Are to Blame For All That Befalls You « Colleen Anderson 2009