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Definition of Happenstances
1. happenstance [n] - See also: happenstance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Happenstances
Literary usage of Happenstances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. One America Indivisible: A National Conversation on American Pluralism and by Sheldon Hackney (1999)
"Thus sensitized by the happenstances of biography, I have lived through a period
of American history in which racial justice has been the dominant domestic ..."
2. Noontime Messages in a College Chapel: Sixty-nine Short Addresses to Young (1917)
"happenstances " trouble us because we do not see the outcome. Correctly adjust
your life to the perfect pattern, and you steadily endure what com.es to you, ..."
3. The Desire of the Moth: And The Come on by Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1920)
"What a very peculiar set of happenstances! I am a nervous woman and this makes
my head go round!" " The worst day's work you ever did for yourself," said ..."
4. Lady of La Mancha by Lawrence Murray, Alessandra LaRocca (2002)
"La Ingeniosa Doña Dulcinea del Toboso happenstances as well as handsome by not
again showing his face, lest I flee. ..."