Happened

Examples

• Ten minutes passed--and nothing happened. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I will tell you it just as it happened, sir, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• So it would seem it happened to Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The same thing happened at each place where they stopped. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• That evening, of course, Celia knew nothing of what had happened. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A great stone that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• What had happened to India was very parallel to what had happened to Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You have heard about the Colonel's Will; now you must hear what happened after the Colonel's death. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But all was not well, and, as has happened so often before, the politics of father and son were violently different. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the fewest words, the Sergeant showed them the evidence of the footmarks, and told them that a fatal accident must have happened to her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I asked him what happened and he said, Oh, they stopped them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I am to understand that you forbid me to tell my aunt what has happened? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Nothing had happened--they were both as safe and as well as when I had left them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My head ached with wondering how it happened, if men were neither fools nor rascals; and my heart ached to think they could possibly be either. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• One of these happened in 1883 and lasted three hours. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Nothing happened until Penelope came in, at the usual time in the morning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He happened to be the only one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• His acquaintances thought him enviable to have so charming a wife, and nothing happened to shake their opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I happened to remark to Mr. Rochester how much Adele wished to be introduced to the ladies, and he said: 'Oh! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Suppose you found Miss Verinder quite unaccountably interested in what has happened to Mr. Ablewhite and Mr. Luker? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Now, start right, and tell me how it all happened. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Something has happened to my sister! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We were to look at what happened on my birthday night, together, she went on; and we were then to understand each other. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He went accordingly; and it happened that the time of his arrival coincided with that of Mrs. Yeobright's pause on the hill near the house. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Nothing new has happened that I know of. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I had a few lines on parish business from Mr. Weston this morning, and at the end of them he gave me a brief account of what had happened. Jane Austen. Emma.
• No knowing what might have happened if the cavalry had not come up in time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So I should have done, had I not unfortunately happened to engage Boultby to sup with me on his way home from the Bible Society meeting at Nunnely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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