We are humble folk living in a quiet village, and we know but little of what happens in the great world outside.
If nothing of the kind happens soon, it will not be the fault of that dark-browed Spanish envoy, Don Juan Manuel.
This reply pleased the princess so much that her heart was won at once, and she smiled brightly upon the boy as Le Glorieux said, "And now tell me, Cousin Clotilde, how this young gentleman happens to be of your kin.
Fortunately my mother's kitchen-maid happens to be a relative of Hannah Dobbs, and it was because she very properly brought to my notice a letter which she had received from that young person that I learnt of your scandalous behaviour.
This water, together with an enormous quantity of imprisoned air, spouts out of a small hole at the apex of the cavern to an immense height, and, if the sun happens to be shining, a beautiful rainbow is formed.
It happens that the earliest book in our modern European literature, which has subsequently obtained a station of authority on the subject of the ancient Oracles, applied itself entirely to the erroneous theory of the fathers.
And truth, where it happens to be of a high order, is generally its own witness to all who approach it in the spirit of childlike docility.
That takes the animal up with it, if he happens to be small; and holds his hind quarters elevated if he's bigger.
We have been told what happens when a woman deliberates; and the epigram is not always terminable with woman, provided that one be in the case, and that a fair one.
Unless some accident happens again, as it did the first time.
Sixty or seventy have started, and many more have gone up to Morne Rouge and Ajoupa Boullion, where it happens to be cool, though they're just as close to the craters.
But, Paula, each time something happens to restore you to yourself, thwarting his purpose, his projections are weakened.
Not about some strange affliction or disease, such as is the lot of very few, but about a marriage, that which happens in the ordinary lot of all mankind.
I know you will say that, "Of course, whatever happens must be the Lord's will; if it did not please Him it would not happen.
Then Christmas-day is a witness to you, that whatsoever happens to you, happens to you by the will and rule of Jesus Christ, The perfect man; think of that.
You can only feel it, by groping about with your hands, and laying hold of whatsoever happens to be nearest you.
For the trouble goes away, whether I mend my life or not; and nothing happens to me; God does not punish me for not keeping my promises to Him.
Whereby it happensthat they only recollect a few scraps of the sermon, a word here, and a sentence there, and get into their heads all sorts of mistakes and false notions about the preacher's meaning.
And he goes out every now and then and drinks too much and doesn't know just what happens afterward.
Only it happens that you're the one who d-doesn't know how awfully funny it really is.
So that we'll always know, whatever happens afterward, that we loved each other.
Love's just a sort of miracle thing that happens to you.
I found myself staring blankly at him; but, as often happens in moments of shock, I did not at first feel the full force of what he said.
This Mister Smith or whatever his name is will be had up for flying to the danger of the public, and we'll see what happens then!
For, quite apart from my paper, I do work, and I don't want to give you the impression that the whole of my leisure time is given over to the investigation of what happens to my Chelsea friends.
There happens to be a fellow called Westbury, confound him, and that beastly bullet seems to have fetched up somewhere in his house; he lives just across the way there.
The baton happens to be that of a former Lyon King of Arms, which really should long since have been discarded and a new one substituted.
Cases where this happens need to be carefully scrutinised to avoid error in blazoning.
In reality quarterings are no more than accidents, because they are only inherited when the wife happens to be an heiress in blood.
This happens with the bordure when it is a part of the original coat of arms.
NOTE 5] But I must tell you what happens when he goes away from this Palace every year on the 28th of the August [Moon].
Unless merchants be well armed they run the risk of being murdered, or at least robbed of everything; and it sometimes happens that a whole party perishes in this way when not on their guard.
The inspector here happens to be a friend of mine.
And I wait, submissive to His will, for nothing happens unless He wills it.
In the house-painting line it often happens that a man has to give up working on ladders and scaffoldings at fifty.
Nevertheless, he recognised his brother without even feeling astonished to see him there, as indeed often happens after great disasters, when the unexplained becomes providential.
Occasionally it happens in fraudulent alteration of writing that a stroke or part of a letter may touch some of the original writing, and betray itself by being above instead of below the older letter.
The manuscript was in all probability, therefore, written with the left hand, and, as frequently happens in such cases of paralysis, the other hypothetical writing centre was brought into action and mirror writing was produced.
Come here, and see what happens to people who do only what is pleasant.
Then turn over the next five hundred years, and you will see what happens next.
It fortunately happens that the circumstances of the case are such as to reduce considerably the complexity of the problem.
If the spot happens to be near the centre of the sun's disc, the gases must be shooting upwards or downwards to produce these changes in the lines.
The dome is capable of revolving so that the opening may be turned towards that part of the sky where the object happens to be situated.
As the relative positions of the earth and the sun are changing, it happens twice in each revolution that the sun comes into the position of the line of intersection of the two planes.
Still less are we able to say whether Alcor is also a member of the same group, or whether it may not merely be a star which happens to fall nearly in the line of vision.
It consequently happens that when the composite beam of sunlight, in which all the different rays are blended, passes through the prism, they emerge in the manner shown in the annexed figure (Fig.
It may be noted that the recognition of the celestial origin of meteorites happens to be simultaneous with the discovery of the first of the minor planets.
As so frequently happens in lunar volcanoes, the bottom of the crater is below the level of the surrounding plain, in the present instance to the extent of nearly 2,500 feet.
It often happens that a large spot divides into two or more separate portions, and these have been sometimes seen to fly apart with a velocity in some cases not less than a thousand miles an hour.
If, however, the prism bent all rays of light equally, then it would be of no service in the analysis of light; but it fortunately happens that the prism acts with varying efficiency on the rays of different hues.
This is particularly noticeable if the observer happens to be in a train which is moving rapidly in the opposite direction.
Each one has thus a special period of revolution which depends upon the length of the ellipse in which it happens to revolve.
As so often happens in such cases, the same object was discovered independently by another--an English astronomer named Dawes.
But if one happens to utter some individual truth which another man has made into one of the cogs of his system, he is in danger of being supposed to accept all the toothed wheels and their relations in that system.
Be very careful to see that you are using your own ammunition, the proper sort for each particular pistol, and not taking some other that happens to be lying about.
The boys will run like wild things after carrion, let it stink ever so much, and where a mortality happens among the cattle, there these wretched creatures are to be found in the greatest numbers.
If anythinghappens to your brother, how are we to forgive ourselves?
If anything happens to Rodney it will be my fault--mine," she murmured, as she resumed her restless walk.
I told you that there were but few whose estates produced the metal of which these nails are made; and this thoughtless youth happens to be one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "happens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
