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Happen   /hˈæpən/   Listen
verb
Happen  v. i.  (past & past part. happened; pres. part. happening)  
1.
To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. "There shall no evil happen to the just."
2.
To take place; to occur. "All these things which had happened."
To happen on, to meet with; to fall or light upon. "I have happened on some other accounts."
To happen in, to make a casual call. (Colloq.)





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"Happen" Quotes from Famous Books



... as well as he could, but I'm afraid it wasn't a very adequate explanation," said Dark as they huddled in the shadowed recess. "Could you tell me more about it, and explain how you happen to be here?" ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... care and preservation. Never was there a kinder-hearted affectionate parent than this, and never were brother and sister more fondly attached. The mother knowing this, and confident that her son William would, if necessary, offer himself a self-immolated victim, sooner than any evil should happen to his charge, felt little ...
— Fern Vale (Volume 1) - or the Queensland Squatter • Colin Munro
... a man of literal and laborious mind; he asked me if my brother was dying. I answered that he was in excellent and even offensive health, but that I was inquiring upon a question of principle. What would happen if England were invaded, or if I alone knew how to turn aside a comet or an earthquake. He waved away these hypotheses in the most irresponsible spirit, but he was quite certain that telegrams could not reach this particular village. Then something exploded in me; ...
— Tremendous Trifles • G. K. Chesterton
... know," Father Beret suggested. "But cherry pies are just as good while he's gone as when he's at home, and I happen to know that there are some particularly delicious ones in the pantry of Madame Roussillon. Mademoiselle Alice gave me a juicy sample; but then I dare say you do not care to have your pie served ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... such a thing; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."[1] Too simple explanations are always false when analyzing those profound creations of popular sentiment which baffle all systems by their fullness and infinite variety. It is scarcely necessary to say that, with such documents, in order to present only ...
— The Life of Jesus • Ernest Renan


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