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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
happen .
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Examples
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I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Matthew Yglesias » The Unpredictability of Quarterbacks 2009
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It so happeneth that the fish of the water and the beasts of the forest bring forth after their kind.
KEESH, SON OF KEESH 2010
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'O master, a strange thing happeneth in the igloo of Neewak, the shaman; wherefore we are lost, and we have neither worn the warm furs nor tasted the good tobacco, what of your madness for the molasses and flour.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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'O master, a strange thing happeneth in the igloo of Neewak, the shaman; wherefore we are lost, and we have neither worn the warm furs nor tasted the good tobacco, what of your madness for the molasses and flour.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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To put his thoughts in the style of Ecclesiastes: As it happeneth to the right-winger, so it happeneth even to me.
Monster of Marriage 2010
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Ecclesiastes told us that time and chance happeneth to all, but we easily forget.
Knowing What Isn't So Christopher F. Chabris 2011
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To put his thoughts in the style of Ecclesiastes: As it happeneth to the right-winger, so it happeneth even to me.
Monster of Marriage 2010
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"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
DK Matai: Underwater Dirty 'Black Gold' Volcano: Unprecedented Environmental Emergency 2010
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"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
DK Matai: Underwater Dirty 'Black Gold' Volcano: Unprecedented Environmental Emergency 2010
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Ecclesiastes 9: 11: I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Assessing Causality 2008
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