As it happened, however, the thing was taken out of his hands, for at this moment, Gussie, having stretched his arms and yawned a bit, switched on that pebble-beached smile again and tacked down to the edge of the platform.

It was the sort of thing you read about as having happened just before the French Revolutionthe haughty nobles in their castles callously digging in and quaffing while the unfortunate blighters outside were suffering frightful privations.

A curious thing happened about the duke the other day.

In other words, whatever may have happened in the past, Great Britain has now won the consent of the ruled to the factnot necessarily to the methodsof British rule.

We know what happened twice over at Minorca when the latter was not done.

When my uncle's house, as often happened, was full of gay company, I withdrew to my own room, and read my favorite authors in its pleasant solitude.

You know how differently it happened.

Then when I sat down to write, and remembered how handsome you were, and all that had happened, the old feelings would come back, and for the time you were all I cared for.

I cannot tell what happened after that.

Do you think, said Socrates, that if an ass happened to kick me, I should resent it?

Another disadvantage under which actions labor is that they depend upon chance for the possibility of coming into existence; and hence, the fame they win does not flow entirely from their intrinsic value, but also from the circumstances which happened to lend them importance and lustre.

One of those queer little accidents possible in the East had happened within the last few weeks.

The Mohammedans, on the other hand, Afghans from the far side of the Khyber, men of the Hassan and the Aka and the Adam Khel tribes, Afridis from Kohat and Tirah and the Araksai country, any who happened to be in that wild and crowded town, turned out, tooto keep order, as they pleasantly termed it, when their leaders were subsequently asked for explanations.

One evening I happened to come up the street just in time to see the hinder part of the processionsome hundreds of birdsflying across the river.

Then he happened to be at work near the edge of the field, and I beckoned him to me.

As a general thing, the colored tenants of the cabins made out pretty well, he believed, unless something happened to the crops.

Would I lend him my opera-glass, which happened to be in my hand at the moment?

Busy with other things, I did not stop to reflect that it was impossible there should be sheep in that quarter, and the occurrence had quite passed out of my mind when, one day, a cracker, talking about frogs, happened to say, "Yes, and we have one kind that makes a noise exactly like the bleating of sheep."

I should wish you, for my own particular information, to add in a note a few instances of the Physical Changes in the Constitution of the Globe, which have occurred since the year 1781, in which I happened to be born.

Mr. Murray, anxious to remove the awkwardness of a first introduction, wished to say something which would engage a conversation between ourselves and Sir Walter Scott, and asked Charles if he happened to have about him his drawing of the Bayeux tapestry to show to Sir Walter.

Now it happened that the only room in the house which Mrs. James could have to herself with a fire, was the one adjoining the nursery.

They received me at the Fazenda of Boa Esperanza in the most friendly manner, and, as I happened to arrive exactly at dinner-time (it was between 3 and 4 o'clock), covers were immediately laid for me and my attendant.

I was told that it has often happened for sailors, or other strangers, during their walks, to penetrate through one of these entrances into the interior of the town, and not discover their mistake until the stones began flying about their ears.

Assizes after assizes the same thing happened, until at length wagers were held that no such bill would be found, and no one was found to accept them.

They kept the matter hid very close, for they would not for the world that the father or friends of the bride should know what had happened.