betide

How To Use betide In A Sentence

• So saying she seized a sword and made at him to smite him; and behold, he cried out and said, “O Kings of the Age, suffer her not to slay me, till I shall have told you the rare adventures that have betided me.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Endure then with patience that which thou sufferest, for verily thou deservest all that betideth thee! — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• And she still answereth me, ‘Allah is bountiful: good will presently betide thee.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Thyself ordain who first must seize the blazing bar and burn the Cyclops 'eye out, that we may share alike whate'er betides. The Cyclops
• Nuzhat al-Zaman and the Wazir Dandan, they marvelled at the wonderful events that had betided them and bade the scribes chronicle them in books that those who came after might read. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Sometimes a Mencken column went on for pages, and woe betide the subeditor who cut him. Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High
• Newcomers are viewed skeptically until they "prove" their loyalty, and "woe betide anyone who walks into our house wearing that [hated team X] shirt! Pop Culture
• There she found the wax-candles lighted and the Princess Hayat al-Nufus seated and awaiting her; whereupon she bethought her of her husband and what had betided them both of sorrow and severance in so short a space; she wept and sighed and groaned groan upon groan, and began improvising these couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• But woe betide you if you make your splash with a financial killing or by getting a huge advance.
• And if someone is incapacitated and unable to make decisions for themselves, woe betide another person who might make a wrong decision for them.