This, however, does not condemn us to any endorsement of the fantastic descriptions of such happenings in which Philostratus indulges.
Another instance of how Apollonius turned chance happenings to good account is the following.
Legends of the wonderful happenings at his birth were in circulation, and are of the same nature as all such birth-legends of great people.
He understands nothing of the solemn happenings which he has witnessed, nor does he ask their meaning, though his own heart had been lacerated with pain at sight of the king's sufferings.
Tarzan had seen enough of such strange happenings recently to have some idea as to what he might expect; but this time Bolgani did not alter his form as he came slowly toward the young ape-man.
The rest was but shadows that came and went, cast by happenings with which she had nothing to do.
He was sent to the hospital, of which happenings I was kept informed by letters from some of the men wrapped about a small stone and thrown to the officers' grounds.
Events and happenings as above indicated had continued for some time and thus stood when the Cheat Mountain expedition was entered upon by the Confederates.
The smoke of battle settles upon us so dense and dark that we cannot see happenings around us.
I was a fanciful child, too used to conjuring up weird situations and make-believe happenings to be easily scared by what other children might dread.
Nevertheless he was not quite so spontaneously happy when he met his father at luncheon and recounted to him the happenings of the morning.
Since then such decrees have become common happenings in America, monopolies being considered a menace to national prosperity.
Thus do the marvels of one age become the commonplace happenings of the next.
It is a marvel to the writer that some one has not written a book devoted to the little every-day happenings of the French middle classes.
In that garden of memory I can set old happenings in a new light, and measure my slow footprints in the age-long journey behind me.
Many other unpleasant incidents followed after, but the really great happenings did not begin till 1896, when a shooting tenant, after a week or two, was compelled to quit the house, and forfeit the considerable rent he had paid in advance.
Don't you understand, there is no language to convey such happenings from one to the other.
That day the mystic walked in a dream, enmeshed in the warp of great occult happenings being woven out in the loom of Karmic fatality.
I have no doubt that many people who have not had the interesting experience of remembering one or more of their former incarnations have been able through some trivial incident to recollect happenings long vanished from their memory.
Robert Chambers determined to go to America and investigate for himself the reported marvelous happenings there.
The house, the garden, and the stable were decidedly uncanny, but it was some time before they would admit, even to themselves, that the strange happenings were of a supernatural order.
Confusion reigned within him, and yet he found himself powerless to correlate his thoughts or suggest reasons for the strange happenings of the last few days.
Mr. Meredith, with his family and Aunt Janice, were discussing the wonderfulhappenings of the day, when into the picture stepped Gwen and her son, adding their happiness to the hearts overflowing for them.
The next of the strange happenings of the night now occurred.
Until this moment, I suppose, the strangeness and unexpectedness of these happenings had numbed my brain.
Some fifteen or more, including the children, were soon settled about the Tozer fireplace, eager to learn of the happenings in Portsmouth.
A dramatist may assume that only as much time has passed between acts as he makes entirely plausible by the happenings and characterization of the next act.
Melodrama obviously does depend on story-happenings often unmotivated and forced on the characters by the will of the dramatist.
Often, however, the happenings of a play may seem to an audience incompatible, that is, the character in one place may seem to contradict himself as presented elsewhere.
As they ate they talked the happenings over again.
Mark had yet to learn that the station was like a glass house, all its happenings common property.
At other times, even quite unusual happenings cannot avail to lift a man from dulness and poverty of mind; one can sit in the middle of a ballroom and be cool, indifferent, unaffected by anything.
I guess sights and happenings like this ain't nothing to you, Sergeant .
If it wasn't for these occasional little happenings our life would be pretty dull.
The only apology he could offer for his conduct was that he was completely stunned by the happenings of the afternoon.
The happenings of the past week seemed conclusive proof of the truth of the saying.
Here the reader will make the acquaintance of Eleanor Savell, a clever but exceedingly wilful girl, whose advent in Oakdale High School brings about a series of happenings that make the story one of absorbing interest.
Imagine the awful ennui of a world where the expected always happened, and next year's happenings were always expected!
And when I looked back on the happenings of the two hours that had elapsed since Jervaise had fetched me out of the improvised buffet, I was still greatly puzzled to account for his marked choice of me as a confidant.
You've lived in a whirl of exciting happenings so long that settling down for good will seem rather tame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "happenings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
