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.

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.

But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and politics in this country and what happened to it.

for what had happened on the common was only terror and flight ; ;

My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.

And it so happened that adjacent to a couch on which she had taken refuge was a small table on which she noted a vase of red rosebuds ; ;

That had happened on the day when two other unusual things had occurred.

On that view, nothing good or bad happened in the case until I came on the scene and made my remark.

Indeed, we should say, on the contrary, that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal's pain, that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not.

It happened on the twelfth hole, a 155-yarder.

A measure of how hot the stock was, can be found in what happened to it on the market as soon as trading began.

And that is just what happened on the last few holes.

Most passengers didn't know what had happened until they got on the ground.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

Her bouffant coiffure was fortunately combed on the left which happened to be the direction from which a brisk breeze was blowing.

It happened two weeks ago, the night before his father left on a business trip to South America.

I dressed in the kitchen, then left a note on the table telling him what had happened.

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.

Alternate history is related to but distinct from counterfactual history — the term used by some professional historians when using thoroughly researched and carefully reasoned speculations on " what might have happened if ..." as a tool of academic historical research.

The use of anagrams and fabricated personal names may be to circumvent restrictions on the use of real names, as happened in the 18th century when Edward Cave wanted to get around restrictions imposed on the reporting of the House of Commons.

After my return from the hospital, Boria came to visit me, as though nothing had happened, a dn touchingly made his peace with my mother, telling her how much he loved me.

That's never happened before in my life.

A whole group of people, literally everyone, believed a version of the world that was entirely wrong, and my accidental investigation of the story provided a different version of what happened.

When Peripatetic philosopher Eudemus became ill with Quartan fever, Galen felt obliged to treat him " since he was my teacher and I happened to live nearby.

" Bradbury remarked, " I felt that something strange and wonderful had happened to me because of my encounter with Mr. Electrico ... gave me a future ... I began to write, full-time.

Nobody can do a movie about my life without me being involved, because nobody knows what really happened in my life until I tell them.

In my case the opposite happened.

Such was my mother's pride in her children that everything that happened to each one was of the utmost importance to her.

* It may mean " at / to the year of the siege of Mount Badon ... which happened 44 years and one month ago, and which is year of my birth ".

Here is my best, honest recollection of what happened: someone ( I don't remember who ) led me towards the gun, and I sat down, still laughing, still applauding.

* " I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

The story I am going to tell is a horrible one: I beg that daughters and fathers should hold themselves aloof, while I sing, or if they find my songs enchanting, let them refuse to believe this part of my tale, and suppose that it never happened: or else, if they believe that it did happen, they must believe also in the punishment that followed.

And still, it was probably the best thing that could have happened, because my intuition tells me-once again!

I can remember it very vividly — as if it happened yesterday, and I can see my dad running down the hill, rescuing me, and taking me to the hospital.

' It was the greatest thing that had happened in my life ,' he once said of his first Letterman appearance.

You know, I still don't understand all of it and why all of it happened, but I definitely have a heart, and my heart goes out to everyone involved.

He described the release of Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols as " the last time something major happened to me and changed me ... it was the best summer of my life.

He had now been in the hospital three months, and was quite emaciated, and like one in the last stage of consumption ... On making my morning visit, and inquiring, as usual, of his rest at the nurse, she happened to mention the strong notions he had got in his head, she said, of home, and of his friends.

He regarded the birth of his first child as " the most miraculous thing that had ever happened in my life.

of acquiring evidential knowledge of what happened in Athabascan, in Yokuts, in Uto-Aztecan in the last few thousand years as well as forecasting what more anciently may have happened between them.

`` We're here because of what happened last night '', he said.

Remember what happened the last time ''??

According to Wells College records, this last happened in 1979.

My IT manager spent $ 200000 last month and created a DRP ( Disaster Recovery Plan ), whatever happened to that?

Tony West, his lawyer, explained it as follows :" One of the first things he told Army interrogators when they questioned him on December 3 of last year was that after 9 / 11 happened, he wanted to leave the front lines but couldn't for fear of his life.

The last V-2 launch at Peenemünde happened in February 1945, and on May 5, 1945, the soldiers of the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front under General Konstantin Rokossovsky captured the seaport of Swinemünde and all of Usedom Island.

Despite this, it was the last time this happened in such a complete way and the house marked the end of a phase in his design thinking as well as being the last of a series of buildings dominated by the colour white.

He waited until 1802 ( in Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars ; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens ) to announce the hypothesis that the two stars might be " binary sidereal systems " orbiting under mutual gravitational attraction, a hypothesis he confirmed in 1803 in his Account of the Changes that have happened, during the last Twenty-five Years, in the relative Situation of Double-stars ; with an Investigation of the Cause to which they are owing.

Exceeding 7 minutes of totality, this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years ; the last one occurred on June 30, 1973 when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot for 73 minutes.

Although Wrigley Field has been the home of the Cubs since 1916, it has yet to see the Cubs win a World Series, even though it has hosted several ( 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938, and 1945, the last time the Cubs appeared in a World Series ), the last World Series win by the Cubs ( 1908 ) happened while the Cubs called West Side Park home.

When glaciers covering the north of Britain melted at the end of the last ice age, two things happened to create the Solent.

Edward Burne-Jones observed, " here for the first time one can measure a bit the change that has happened in the last twenty years ".

However, it so happened that Philip I, the last surviving brother of Thomas, made Thomas ' younger son Amadeus his heir in Savoy, leaving the elder son, Thomas, and the genealogically senior line descending from him out of the Savoy succession.

" Constitutionally, it was as if the last nineteen years had never happened ".

Noticing this dramatic change in their demeanor since his last visit, one priest told the other, " Something has happened to them in there.

This last happened in 2005 ( Iurie Boreico ), 1995 ( Nikolay Nikolov, Bulgaria ), and 1988 ( Emanouil Atanassov, Bulgaria ), but was more frequent up to the early 1980s.

This last happened in 2010, when the choice was to give either 226 ( 43. 71 %) or 266 ( 51. 45 %) of the 517 ( excluding the 6 from North Korea — see below ) contestants a medal, and 2012, when the choice was to give either 226 ( 46. 35 %) or 277 ( 50. 55 %) of the 548 contestants a medal.

Around this time, outlaws were gradually eliminated from the area, and the last Indian raid happened in 1878.

Some of the closing battles of the American Civil War happened in the county with the Second Battle of Fort Fisher ( the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy ) and the Battle of Wilmington.