betides
- present tense form of betide (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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But I have to wonder if, whatever betides, I can stay upbeat in spirit.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
It fails to mention Ogden Nash's "One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it,/ Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it."
From Time Magazine Archive
It betides a great misfortune, they said, and they could reveal things of great importance to the king.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
Trim, I fear nothing, he would say, but the doing a wrong thing.——Well, he would add, whatever betides, I will take care of Le Fever’s boy.—And with that, like a quieting draught, his honour would fall asleep.
From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence
"To us," cries Beowulf in his last fight, "to us it shall be as our Weird betides, that Weird that is every man's lord!"
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard
