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    betide


    1. But on waking he would be in such a fearful mood, that woe betide anyone who got in his way


    2. Then: this little popinjay of Kaiser writes commiserating to his royal cousin the Tsar of all the Russia’s who is at the very moment mobilizing 2 ½ million mean to attack Europe and Austria AND Germany: as they both tearfully confess to each other in private, in a private letter that does not go through the diplomatic channels of their respective govts, that neither one of them really want war but ‘alas, woe betide us’ it is out of our hands… “Though I have tried my best, I can do nothing to stop it


    3. Ill betide my master, Anselmo, for giving such authority in his house to this shameless fellow! And supposing you kill him, senora, as I suspect you mean to do, what shall we do with him when he is dead?"


    4. Ill betide the devil! if it had not been for your worship my master would be married to the Princess Micomicona this minute, and I should be a count at least; for no less was to be expected, as well from the goodness of my master, him of the Rueful Countenance, as from the greatness of my services


    5. Ill betide the jade that in the flower of her youth would not sooner become a nun than a duenna! Unfortunate beings that we are, we duennas! Though we may be descended in the direct male line from Hector of Troy himself, our mistresses never fail to address us as 'you' if they think it makes queens of them


    6. "Yes, but they will make you then sign your declaration, and confront you with him you have denounced; I will supply you with the means of supporting your accusation, for I know it, and the day when he comes out, woe betide him who was the cause of his incarceration!"the fact well


    7. Woe betide the wretch who is born to behold this plain, with the judgment hanging about his soul! Ha—as I am a man of white blood, yonder lies a red-skin, without the hair of his head where nature rooted it! Look to him, Delaware; it may be one of your missing people; and he should have burial like a stout warrior


    8. Whatever betide, you have come to the end of the Gondor that you have


    9. Nay, nay, whatever may now betide in war, my line too is ending, even the House of the Stewards has failed


    10. The well-nourished man has spent all his life in merry-making, with everything provided, has done nothing himself and does not know how hard every sort of work is, and so woe betide you if you jar upon his fat feelings by any sort of roughness; he'll never forgive you for that, he will always remember it and will gladly avenge it

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    Synonyms for "betide"

    bechance befall betide

    "betide" definitions

    become of; happen to