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Definition of Happened
1. happen [v] - See also: happen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Happened
Literary usage of Happened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"It "happened." No famous general or statesman or cutthroat ever got up and
said "Friends, ... But the Roman empire-making was done without HOW ROME happened ..."
2. Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897)
""That is proved by what happened in the temple of Vesta.'" "What a world!"'
"As the world is, ... Staring at his nephew he said: "What has happened to thec? ..."
3. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"CHAPTER I. WHAT HAD happened AT HOME. WHEN Mr. Tulliver first knew the fact that the
... every one who happened to observe him at the time thought that, ..."