It happened that he was about to paint a picture of St. Augustine, as a fresco for the chapel of the Magi of the church I have named.
Now it happened that I was walking one spring morning--it was in May of that year '44 of which I am now writing--on the upper of the three spacious terraces that formed the castle garden.
But it happened that an illness left me sickly and ailing, and unfitted me utterly for such a life.
It happened that a month or so after old Falcone had left us there wandered one noontide into the outer courtyard of the castle two pilgrim fathers, on their way--as they announced--from Milan to visit the Holy House at Loreto.
Our readers will doubtlessly have been asking themselves how it happened that Athos, of whom not a word has been said for some time past, arrived so very opportunely at court.
The king had ceased to think anything further of Porthos; he turned his eyes anxiously towards the entrance-door, and he was heard occasionally to inquire how it happened that Monsieur de Saint-Aignan was so long in arriving.
But if it happened that I upset his thought the thunderbolt was apt to fly.
If it happened that he had no particular engagement for the afternoon, he liked to walk out, especially when the pleasant weather came.
It so happened that my seat was nearly facing the guest of the evening, who, by custom of The Players, is placed at the side and not at the end of the long table.
It so happened that just as he was turning a corner, and the little one was crying, "Gee up," two strange men came towards him.
Now it so happened that on this very day the Queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere.
Now it so happened that on one occasion the princess's golden ball did not fall into the little hand which she was holding up for it, but on to the ground beyond, and rolled straight into the water.
Now it so happened that a king was hunting in the forest, who had a great greyhound which ran to the tree on which the maiden was sitting, and sprang about it, whining, and barking at her.
It happened that once in a storm, the King went into the mill, and he asked the mill-folk if the tall youth was their son.
It happened that I had heard less than usual at this period, and indeed for many months before it, of Jessie and her proceedings.
Thus it happened that, whenever my master was away at sea, my mistress and Mr. Meeke were always together, playing duets as if they had their living to get by it.
It happened that my brother and myself were playing one evening in a sandy lane, in the neighbourhood of this Pett camp; our mother was at a slight distance.
It happened that my brother and myself were disporting ourselves in certain fields near the good town of Canterbury.
It happened that I was in London in the height of the season with my uncle, at his house; one morning he summoned me into the parlour, he was standing before the fire, and looked very serious.
It sohappened that as Tarzan sprang into the river the vessel was not visible to him, and as he swam out into the night he had no idea that a ship drifted so close at hand.
So it happened that as Jane Clayton came to the bank of the river, down which she hoped to float to the ocean and eventual rescue, Nikolas Rokoff was but a short distance in her rear.
So it happened that as Tarzan and Tambudza sneaked warily from the village and melted into the Stygian darkness of the jungle two lithe runners took their way in the same direction, though by another trail.
We had never met before, though we had been in the regular army together for thirteen years; but it so happened that we had never before come together.
It so happened that the, Duc de Beauvilliers himself was able to carry this casket to the King, who had the key of it.
If happened that on Tuesday morning, the 20th of August, there was no bread for a large number of these people.
Whether Nangis, too faithful to his first love, needed some grains of jealousy to excite him, or whether things fell out naturally, it happened thathe found a rival.
Two months afterwards it happened that, while Monseigneur was at Meudon, the King, Madame de Maintenon; and Madame de Bourgogne, came to dine with him.
At length it happened that Louvois, not content with the terrible executions in the Palatinate, which he had counselled, wished to burn Treves.
The prince made after him, but it so happened that at this moment Evgenie Pavlovitch stretched out his hand to say good-night.
That same evening I stopped at a small provincial hotel, and it so happened that a dreadful murder had been committed there the night before, and everybody was talking about it.
One summer it happened that a vessel came from Iceland belonging to Icelanders, and loaded with skins and peltry.
Harek replies, "That is called news indeed that seldom happens; never before has it happened that my people have been beaten.
Now when the king came out of the room, it so happened that he walked quicker than Svein expected; and when he looked the king in the face he grew pale, and then white as a corpse, and his hand sank down.
Earl Hakon came one winter to the Uplands to a feast, and it so happened that he had intercourse with a girl of mean birth.
Now it happened that at this time all the principal men and rulers went up out of the cities of Syria and Phoenicia, to bid for their taxes; for every year the king sold them to the men of the greatest power in every city.
The old Bowyer was in the habit of lending money on interest to the gallants of the Court, and thus it happened that many a richly- dressed gentleman dismounted at his door.
It so happened that in the season of spring, the king Dharmadhwaj, taking his queens with him, went for a stroll in the garden, where there was a large tank with lotuses blooming within it.
It so happened that in course of time the father died.
Whilst labouring under this curse, Gandharba-Sena persuaded the King of Dhara to give him a daughter in marriage, but it unfortunately so happened that at the wedding hour he was unable to show himself in any but asinine shape.
It happened that exactly as Jacob was on the point of leaving the tent of his father, carrying in his hands the plates off which Isaac had eaten, he noticed Esau approaching, and he concealed himself behind the door.
Once upon a time it happened that a man journeying from Elam arrived in Sodom toward evening.
It happened that Eliezer, the slave whom Abraham had received as a present from Nimrod, was at that time at the royal court.
At the same time it happened that in men and beasts alike all the apertures of the body closed up, and the land was seized with indescribable excitement.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "happened that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
