He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

For, with a single exception, nothing had happened to them.

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

For if Serenissimus made the sign of the Cross with his right hand, and meant it, with his left he beckoned lewdly to any lady who happened to catch his eye.

It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.

As things happened, Morgan was installed in the Nob Hill residence of a magnate friend, whose kitchen swarmed with cooks of approved talent.

Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.

Drifts usually happened only with cattle, for hosses had 'nough sense to avoid 'em, and to find shelter for 'emselves.

As she reached Dave and felt his arm go around her, felt him pull her to the safety of his person, she knew with the certainty of despair that something bad had happened to Lauren.

It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.

What happened with you ''??

His spine crawled with a foreboding premonition as he asked one of his fellow tenants what had happened.

This happened in the middle of a drinking bout with another bum.

`` I knew it all along '', confessed Arnold with a grin, `` but I just happened to think how much nicer it would be to drop one way up there ''.

if Mike had had a finger in it, he had gotten away with it -- and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at all as long as he wasn't bothered.

Jubal deduced what had happened but did not know with whom -- and didn't want to inquire.

Pan blew on his pipes, and with his rustic melody gave great satisfaction to himself and his faithful follower, Midas, who happened to be present.

Secret history, works that document things that are not known to have happened historically but would not have changed history had they happened, is also not to be confused with alternate history.

Agathias expresses his hope that the Alemanni would assume better manners through prolonged contact with the Franks, which is by all appearances, in a manner of speaking, what eventually happened.

Once the operator took his finger off, the player would speed up until its tachometer was back in phase with the master, and as this happened, the phasing effect would appear to slide up the frequency spectrum.

Much that happened between Nora and Torvald happened to Laura and her husband, Victor, with the most important exception being the forged signature that was the basis of Nora's loan.

Even so, many of the things that happened to Wright and Olgivanna seem inordinately severe.

He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations' not doing this -- but nothing happened.

This experience will have happened to many of you.

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

The French had repulsed every attack with heavy slaughter, but many had seen what had happened on the plain and what its consequences to them would be ; their army was routed and they were cut off.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

Neither is it sure how many times it has happened if it turns out to be the case.

In some cases, such as " shirt " and " skirt ", one of the cognate pairs has an ultimate source in another language related to English, while the other one is native, as happened with many loanwords from Old Norse borrowed during the Danelaw.

Also, similar hunting-out happened with the megafauna of New Zealand, Madagascar and many smaller islands around the world ( such as New Caledonia, Cyprus, Crete and Wrangel Island ), and at least in part, in the Americas — probably within a thousand years or so.

The Drake equation may furthermore be multiplied by how many times an intelligent civilization may occur on planets where it has happened once.

The transition to behavioral modernity with the development of symbolic culture, language, and specialized lithic technology happened around 50, 000 years ago according to many although some suggest a gradual change in behavior over a longer time span.

Hardly any of the films where this happened were D. W. Griffith films, and indeed many of his 1913 films still contain no dialogue titles at all.

As had happened in many states throughout the U. S. during the 2010 Midterm elections, democrats suffered heavy losses.

A similar process happened during the development of many languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Old French, and Polish, in all three of these resulting in or, whence Modern French sauce as compared with Spanish salsa, or Polish Wisła ( pronounced ) as compared with English Vistula.

It is not known when Procopius himself died, and many historians ( James Howard-Johnson, Averil Cameron, Geoffrey Greatrex ) date his death to 554, but in 562 there was an urban prefect of Constantinople who happened to be called Procopius.

But the introduction of talkies, which happened simultaneously with the onset of the Great Depression, was devastating to many musicians.

Christopher Park, where many of the demonstrators met after the first night of rioting to talk about what had happened, now features a sculpture of four white figures by George Segal ( artist ) | George Segal that commemorates the milestone.

However, as happened to many prominent individuals in the Athenian democracy, Themistocles's fellow citizens grew jealous of his success, and possibly tired of his boasting.

This left many audience members not knowing what happened to his character.

" Fellow White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum felt that if Foster had lived, he would have helped resist the calls to appoint Independent Counsels, and the many investigations lumped under the Whitewater umbrella that occupied the administration and the Clintons for the rest of their terms, might not have happened.

By the time a Web crawler has finished its crawl, many events could have happened, including creations, updates and deletions.

In particular, De Camp argued the plots of the novels are heavily driven by coincidence ; while many things just happened in the romances, the novels are still weakened by the dependence on it.

Orderic Vitalis preserves a lengthy account, complete with speeches made by many of the principals, but this is likely more of an account of how a king should die than of what actually happened.

Evidence of past landslides has been detected on many bodies in the solar system, but since most observations are made by probes that only observe for a limited time and most bodies in the solar system appear to be geologically inactive not many landslides are known to have happened in recent times.