In semi-tropic Pacific weather the unexpected so seldom happens as to be a negligible quantity.

Everybody was skating, not only at the clubs of the Bois de Boulogne, but on the lakes, which happens very rarely, as the water is fairly deep.

Now, it fortunately happens (which is so seldom the case) that I have spare cash by me enough to answer the expenses of so long a journey; and I am determined to get away from the office by some means.

It happened to Cooper while he was abroad, as it not unfrequently happens to our countrymen, to hear the United States disadvantageously compared with Europe.

Luckily, Great Smash happened to be near, and her husband called her to the gate by one of the signals that, was much practised between them.

With our extraordinary industrial systemor want of systemit commonly happens that the abundance of ill-paid or unemployed workers at one end of the social scale, by reducing the rates of wages and so increasing the rates of dividends, actually creates a greater abundance of unemployed rich at the other end; but neither excess points in itself to over-population only to a diseased state of distribution.

Something happened to him afterward.

He was chatting with the whole group one night, and merely happened to address himself first to J.W., Jr.

She was gazing at me in a divinely pitying sort of way, much as if I had been a snail she had happened accidentally to bring her short French vamp down on, and I longed to tell her that it was all right, and that Bertram, so far from being the victim of despair, had never felt fizzier in his life.

And hence it continually happens

Therefore it has not infrequently happened that persistence in adhering to and in enforcing such monopolies has led, first, to attempts at regulation, and, these failing, to confiscation, and sometimes to the proscription of the owners.

Neither should the nurse affect or show alarm at any of the little accidents which must inevitably happen: if it falls, treat it as a trifle; otherwise she encourages a spirit of cowardice and timidity.

When I reached the Rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, opposite my door, it happened curiously and by some chance to be half open.

"We were on one of the hillocks overlooking the pond, and somehowit all happened so swiftly that I cannot tell howbut Moppet must have ventured too near the edge, for the treacherous soil gave way, and down she pitched into the water before I could put out hand to stay her.

Toward Lanyard she bore herself precisely as though nothing had happened to disturb the even adjustment of their personal relations; or, perhaps, as if she considered everything had happened, so that their rapport had become absolute; at all events, with a pleasing absence of constraint.

Had Gíw possessed even the activity and might of Rustem and Sám, such a shameful discomfiture could scarcely have happened."

If we suppose this to happen regularly for a period of four years, the progeny that would spring from a single pair would amount to more than a million.

Incidentally, it happens that many occupations which women might do as well as men are closed to them by exclusive regulations.

But we see that they occurred at the very dawn of history, that they have happened repeatedly for five-and-twenty centuries, and that they are as common now in the nineteenth Christian century as they were in those days when Pan was a god.

You know how differently it happened.

It means something to me nowin view of all that happened subsequently.

It consequently happened, on the morning following the events narrated in the previous chapter, that there was another distinguished arrival at the Grand Hôtel Royal, to the delight and despair of Monsieur Pelletan.

No matter what social engagements they may happen to have, these are all thrown aside for the new friend.

And meantime, though occupied with much speculation concerning all that had happened to-night and must have happened before and might happen in the future, he never for an instant entirely forgot Gloria and how pitifully borne down she looked.

I So weeks and months, and presently irrevocable years, passed tranquilly; and nothing very important seemed to happen nowadays, either for good or ill; and Rudolph Musgrave was content enough.