Sentence examples for befell him from inspiring English sources

Misery befell him; he didn't seek it out.

Mohammad Akaiam recounts the fate that befell him and his family.

People who knew Guthrie say that he kept a positive attitude no matter what befell him.

In the same preface to his first book, Levi promises a "detached study" of what befell him.

That, Mr. Blum's friends said, would be a tragedy, compounding the one that befell him as a young man in Eastern Europe.

"I got off the field and did a couple of things, and then I got back on the field," Paterno said of the minor virus that befell him.

In a letter to Mersenne, dated November 1633, Descartes expresses his fear that were he to publish The World, the same fate that befell Galileo would befall him.

Mr. Solanki seemed confused by all that had befallen him.

If he refuses to heed them, a worse fate may befall him.

Indicating what might befall him, he draws his hand across his neck.

His love of money has brought down the worst fate that could have befallen him.