Woe betide any book or author that falls outside the official guidelines.

Woe betide the miner from the mountains with gold who entered it.

If he has not, woe betide him; he is commonplace and conventional.

Happy the man that cleaveth unto it, and woe betide the heedless.

In a month's time that may betide, but not yet; not yet.

Happy are they who have attained thereto and woe betide the heedless.

Woe betide any sensitive souls who find themselves in the firing line.

Woe betide the mob into whose ranks that thunderbolt may be hurled.

The alarm sounds, the radio cranks in and woe betide us all.

And it's woe betide the one who takes him up on it.

Yet it may be thou shalt see us before if battle betide.

But woe betide him if I ever find him beyond those limits.

Woe betide you if you turned up half prepared, casually interested, semi-engaged.

So we must take good heed lest a like fate betide us.

He hath so many Christian knights that no ill could betide thee.

Woe betide, too, the person who dreams that he is cutting grass.