Happening

Examples

• Never mind about 'happening,' Mr. Lorry. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But to get a full picture of what is happening you cannot read only the party organ. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But there were times even to the end when he was capable of realising what was happening to him in the present, the death that was on him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I suppose you have heard what's been happening to the beauty on the hill? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• For an active participant in the war, it is clear that the momentous thing is the issue, the future consequences, of this and that happening. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And Tom loves his children; and it's dreadful, papa, that such things are happening, all the time! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• What do teachers imagine is happening to thought and emotion when the latter get no outlet in the things of immediate activity? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was some moments before anybody realised what was happening. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What's happening at the front? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• At length a trifle snapped our connexion; for a great noise happening near the courthouse, I put my head out of the window to see what was the matter. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And did he only think it was something special because it was happening to him? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Do you recollect anything particular happening on the morning when you were first engaged by the defendant; eh, Mr. Weller? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And all the while, I suppose, he thought, real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Tell me, he said, what is happening at the front? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I never knew how well he could sing but he was always on the point of something very big happening. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The first letters he read were very formal, very carefully written and dealt almost entirely with local happenings. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He is not an inventor as much as he is a detective; he picks up the clews to certain happenings and constructs a working theory to fit them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To some extent there has been a popular notion that many of Edison's successes have been due to mere dumb fool luck--to blind, fortuitous happenings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mutiny on the high sea may have been common a hundred years ago, but in this good year 1888 it is the least likely of happenings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Typed by Agatha