V. happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout[obs3], come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance[obs3]; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene[obs3]; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off &c. (be past)
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

And Lord Nelson will take his prisoners out of the vessels, and burn or carry off his prizes as he shall think fit.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

After dinner a bottle of choice old port was placed before my guardian (he was evidently well acquainted with the vintage), and the two ladies left us.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Neither can one transfer the property of ten bushels of corn, or five hogsheads of wine, by the mere expression and consent; because these are only general terms, and have no direct relation to any particular heap of corn, or barrels of wine.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Il n’y a pas, sur tout le littoral maritime de la Bretagne ou, comme on dit, dans tout l’ armor , une seule région ou l’existence de ce ‘Jean des Grèves’ ne soit tenue pour un fait certain, dûment constaté, indéniable.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

We'll buy our clothes on the way.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Fairies, in rubber-boots and woollen head-gear, disported themselves on flowery barks of canvas, or were suspended aloft with hooks in their backs like young Hindoo devotees.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

His title to the quicksilver-mine was, however, never disputed, as he had bought it regularly, before our conquest of the country, from another British subject, also named Forties, a resident of Santa Clara Mission, who had purchased it of the discoverer, a priest; but the boundaries of the land attached to the mine were even then in dispute.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The Salii sing, and cense his altars round With Saban smoke, their heads with poplar bound One choir of old, another of the young, To dance, and bear the burthen of the song.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Tim looked at the mistress in great wonderment: and the fact is, that six hours previous I would as soon have thought of burning the house down as calling for a bottle of claret on my own account; but I felt I was a man now, and had a right to command; and my mother felt this too, for she turned to the fellow and said, sharply, ‘Don’t you hear, you rascal, what YOUR MASTER says!
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

A peculiar duel was agreed upon between the two, each to have four baskets of cocoyoles , or palm-nuts, broken on his head.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

The theory, with regard to birds is, that in the love-season, when the males are excited and engage in courtship, the females do not fall to the strongest and most active, nor to those that are first in the field; but that in a large number of species they are endowed with a faculty corresponding to the aesthetic feeling or taste in man, and deliberately 264 The Naturalist in La Plata. select males for their superiority in some aesthetic quality, such as graceful or fantastic motions, melody of voice, brilliancy of colour, or perfection of ornaments.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

While the rear sentry finished his post at this end just beyond the hangar, the front sentry, as far as had been observed, came only as far as the sliding doors of the hangar.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Or, Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

BREAKFAST A pint of junket One whipped egg LUNCHEON Vegetable soup Boiled onions, carrots, or turnips An egg or a small portion of tender fish A baked potato DINNER Choice of the following cooked in a [B]casserole dish: a Cauliflower, cabbage, or Brussels sprouts b Carrots, parsnips, or turnips A baked potato A vegetable salad with ripe olives and nuts [B] For cooking en casserole, see p.
— from Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 3 of 5 by Eugene Christian

298 Our young readers must bear in mind that these canoes could only go before the wind, or a little quartering, and therefore could not, like a boat, be luffed sharp into the wind, and beat out clear of danger; hence the boys preferred to take the sail in, and trust to their oars, with which they could, if they saw a breaker, pull away from it.
— from Charlie Bell, The Waif of Elm Island by Elijah Kellogg

The battle of Clontarf offered a serious check and though there was still a succession of Norse kings and earls in Dublin they had to acknowledge the authority of the ardrí .
— from The Vikings by A. (Allen) Mawer

There is, besides this constant surveillance, a triennial catalogue made out of the merits and demerits of all officers in the Empire, which is submitted to imperial inspection by the Board of Civil Office.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

The idea , being once conceived, of riding one species of animals, would soon be extended to others.
— from Discoveries and Inventions: A lecture by Abraham Lincoln delivered in 1860 by Abraham Lincoln

"I am ashamed to have been thus prolix and circumstantial, upon a matter which may appear to have admitted of much shorter explanation; but when misconception has produced distrust among those, I hope, not willingly disposed to differ, and, who can have, I equally trust, but one common object in view in their different stations, I know no better way than by minuteness and accuracy of detail to remove whatever may have appeared doubtful in conduct, while unexplained, or inconsistent in principle not clearly re-asserted.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore

We younger sons, indeed, declared bitter war against the mother-country long before our conservative old province ever dreamed of secession.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill