Example Sentences

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This should have served to prefigure to me that my soul, once free and sovereign of itself, was on that day to lay aside its sovereignty and become a slave, as it betided.

From La Fiammetta by Boccaccio, Giovanni

I deserve even more than what hath betided me for my deeds were unrighteous, O Ruler of the Time.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

They bade Rose remain in the garden for the next few hours, and they would hide in a clump of bushes at the corner and watch what betided.

From Tom Tufton's Travels by Everett-Green, Evelyn

But she always took the side of right and virtue against wrong and vice, and woe betided the luckless wight who fell under the ban of her just displeasure.

From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Webb, Archibald

Whatever betided, there was but one woman in the world for him.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend