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  • Luckily we got wind of it in the nick of time and managed to put a stop to the meeting before anything transpired.†   (source)
  • My head was full of everything that had transpired in court: I was replaying what witnesses had said and worrying about whether things had gone exactly right.†   (source)
  • But the skrewts, it transpired, did not hibernate, and did not appreciate being forced into pillow-lined boxes and nailed in.†   (source)
  • He said, "If ever it transpires that I am in trouble, I shall indeed send for you."†   (source)
  • It's called transpiration.†   (source)
  • You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired, a word which here means "happened and made everybody sad."†   (source)
  • Many member changes and arguments over lyrical content have transpired, but no actual shows.†   (source)
  • From time to time promising features would appear on the distant horizon—ravines, maybe mountains, maybe even cities—but as they approached the lines would soften and blur into anonymity and nothing would transpire.†   (source)
  • Now, I think it's time for you to tell me what transpired while I was unconscious.†   (source)
  • LuLing acted alternately cheerful and cranky, unchanged by what had just transpired in the doctor's office.†   (source)
  • A small part of what transpires is what I call the aha. f_factor, the delight we feel at recognizing a familiar component from earlier experience.†   (source)
  • Now imagine the impact these cameras would have had in the past, and will have in the future, if similar events transpire.†   (source)
  • For a long time nothing transpired.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, the working pattern of these bodyguards, so it transpired over the following days, entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night.†   (source)
  • Once again it transpired that the official German decrees were not to be taken seriously, and in fact there was a relaxation of tension in German-Jewish relations for a few months, which seemed more and more genuine as both parties were increasingly concerned with events at the front.†   (source)
  • As I walked down the hallway I thought of Susan and Craig and all that transpired in their lives.†   (source)
  • …not disobey him in this, that he had not believed in commanding his son but in this moment was doing so, that only death awaited Saeed and Nadia in this city, and that one day when things were better Saeed would come back to him, and both men knew as this was said that it would not happen, that Saeed would not be able to return while his father still lived, and indeed as it transpired Saeed would not, after this night that was just beginning, spend another night with his father again.†   (source)
  • I tried to explain things to Zia: about the shabti, Iskandar's death, Desjardins' becoming the Chief Lector, and what had transpired in the last three months since the battle with Set, but I'm not sure how much she heard.†   (source)
  • I assured her of the strength of our cause, the loyalty of our friends, and how it would be her love and devotion that would see me through whatever transpired.†   (source)
  • I am still trying to make sense of what has just transpired.†   (source)
  • "What has transpired?" she cried, but her voice betrayed genuine concern.†   (source)
  • She told him everything: about the fire and his attempts to cover for Scott, about all that had transpired with Marcus.†   (source)
  • His dad rode with Aunt J, and I wondered as we found a place to park beneath the moonlight just what might transpire between the adult members of our interconnected families.†   (source)
  • Look, it is well within your experience to invent a fantasy of events as you think they transpired or are transpiring.†   (source)
  • Mark thought he might explode, so confused was he by what had transpired over the last half an hour or so.†   (source)
  • As all this was transpiring, Pakistan's foreign minister was visiting the White House and hearing President George W. Bush publicly praise Musharraf's "bold leadership.†   (source)
  • Bert gave Aven a report on what had transpired with the knight and the Morgaine.†   (source)
  • It seems there are several witnesses to the events that transpired.†   (source)
  • Cedric opens his notebook, pulls out a blank sheet of paper, and poises his pen as Professor Wooten describes what will transpire over the next fifteen weeks.†   (source)
  • Meredith looked from Nelly to Vlad and back, shaking her head, completely oblivious to what had almost transpired.†   (source)
  • Something had transpired that night in the pantry, just as Rosina feared.†   (source)
  • And he cannot know what transpired between us … therefore, I'm marked for execution.†   (source)
  • I can only wonder now if this brief altercation with my beloved, an altercation that resulted from my attendance there, had something to do with the events that would soon transpire.†   (source)
  • All this was transpiring when the amorous spirits of the whole group appear to have been at a pitch.†   (source)
  • He considered waiting for the firemen and police, but he could not imagine how he would convincingly describe what had transpired in that house in a mere three or four hellish minutes.†   (source)
  • I will say nothing to the Clave or Council of anything that transpires tonight.†   (source)
  • Events had transpired so swiftly the night of Rolfs death that he had never had a chance to check on her.†   (source)
  • How much does Lord Stannis know of what transpired at Winterfell?†   (source)
  • After the ballet, Khrushchev spends all night in the Kremlin—just in case something violent transpires.†   (source)
  • He left the courtroom and walked over to his office at the House to look over his notes and to see what had transpired in Congress that day.†   (source)
  • But nothing ever transpired.†   (source)
  • Several thousand men had grouped around small fires: now and then sharp gusts of wind sprayed water on them, but the wind was cold and dry enough to take the water up in almost instantaneous transpiration.†   (source)
  • The tracks came as no surprise to the drow, for the smoke pillars had already told him much of what had transpired.†   (source)
  • A panel of terrorism experts was analyzing what had just transpired.†   (source)
  • "I know what transpired," Grover said.†   (source)
  • She shut her eyes tightly and pursed her lips in pain, as if in recollection of all that had just transpired.†   (source)
  • And if that should transpire, unwanted places like the desert might be the harsh mother of repopulation.†   (source)
  • The secret of the entire mess was in Amber, in some event that had transpired in that place, and fairly recently, I'd judge.†   (source)
  • The Delacours, it soon transpired, were helpful, pleasant guests.   (source)
    transpired = became known
  • Much of the dialogue that transpired between Harris and me was eerily similar to the dialogue between Adams and the cipher.   (source)
    transpired = happened; or became known
  • Abandoning my hope of comprehending what had transpired, I shouldered my backpack and headed down into the frozen witchery of the Icefall nervous as a cat, for one last trip through the maze of decaying seracs.   (source)
  • According to the most plausible version of what transpired, a clerk rushed into the chambers of Sir Andrew Waugh, India's surveyor general, and exclaimed that a Bengali computer named Radhanath Sikhdar, working out of the Survey's Calcutta bureau, had "discovered the highest mountain in the world."   (source)
  • Were you ever in the habit of writing in the evening what had transpired in the morning?   (source)
  • A murmur of approbation ran through the assembly; and at this moment, Albert, had nothing more transpired, your father's cause had been gained.   (source)
  • I learned what had transpired this morning in the House of Peers, and what was to take place this evening;   (source)
  • But he had been unable to send to Albert the following particulars, as the events had transpired after the messenger's departure; namely, that the same day a great agitation was manifest in the House of Peers among the usually calm members of that dignified assembly.   (source)
  • Do you not know that all Paris knew it yesterday, and the day before it had already transpired on the Bourse, and M. Danglars (I do not know by what means that man contrives to obtain intelligence as soon as we do) made a million!   (source)
  • An irrefutable demonstration of the brotherhood's power has already transpired.†   (source)
  • — CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR — Occlumency Kreacher, it transpired, had been lurking in the attic.†   (source)
  • Hagrid, it transpired, was picking runner beans in his back garden.†   (source)
  • Out of the hall, Eragon told Orik what had transpired.†   (source)
  • It faced south, and the snow had transpired as if to make a trail.†   (source)
  • Do you have any idea what's about to transpire?†   (source)
  • But they couldn't know what had just transpired, and so I didn't blame them.†   (source)
  • Little transpired in the capital that she did not know about.†   (source)
  • What transpired afterward, Eragon was never able to adequately recall.†   (source)
  • Trapped and scared, and not exactly sure what was transpiring.†   (source)
  • Frank is looking down at what has transpired.†   (source)
  • Despite what had transpired, she had thought better of Murtagh.†   (source)
  • The president has no illusions over what is about to transpire.†   (source)
  • Glaedr said little of what transpired, but I have guessed much, and you would do well to hurry.†   (source)
  • He'd known nothing about what had transpired in the bungalow earlier.†   (source)
  • The elf's gaze was so perceptive, Eragon was sure that Oromis understood what had transpired.†   (source)
  • My memory is that I told him everything that had transpired.†   (source)
  • I CAN'T TELL YOU MUCH about the case being discussed or exactly what transpired.†   (source)
  • Ghosh and Hema had no idea what had transpired, but they knew something had happened.†   (source)
  • Not all that transpired during the time he dwelled there is known.†   (source)
  • Galloway listened as Bellamy recounted the extraordinary tale of what had transpired after they had left Cathedral College.†   (source)
  • What would have transpired, one may ask, had one responded slightly differently that evening she came in with her vase of flowers?†   (source)
  • I gave him some of the few possessions I still had left to sell, but it nearly always transpired that they were stolen from him, and he turned up once again with a tiny quantity of food, only enough for two or three days, although it sometimes had to last two weeks.†   (source)
  • From his relaxed position, the one-step-behinder imagines that his evening with a new acquaintance will transpire like any other—with a little chit, a little chat, and a friendly goodnight at the door.†   (source)
  • The morning after Howard's speech, the Del Mar officials finally issued a statement explaining in detail exactly what had transpired during the race: Richardson had grabbed Woolf's saddlecloth, then his whip, then Woolf had grabbed Ligaroti's bridle.†   (source)
  • I am determined to know the truth of the matter, so I warn you, do not attempt to conceal what actually transpired while you were in the Empire.†   (source)
  • He'd been out back, wiping down the interior of the car—he'd already scoured the house in an attempt to eliminate the most obvious signs of what had transpired the other night—when he'd heard them coming up the drive.†   (source)
  • Ser Rodrik sat on his right hand and Maester Luwin to his left, armed with quills and inkpots and a sheaf of blank parchment to write down all that transpired.†   (source)
  • The whole sequence, from Angela's appearance to the intervention of the werecats, transpired with such speed, Eragon barely had time to react.†   (source)
  • After a round of excited hugs and greetings, Tummeler explained to the companions what else was transpiring in the Archipelago, and for the first time, they felt a glimmering of hope.†   (source)
  • For by your actions, by knowingly trading in African slaves-and do not deny that you were unaware of their true origins-you perpetuated a chain of events that is so completely immoral and unjust that all the consequences, including the tragic subsequent occurrence which transpired during your ill-fated voyage, rest firmly on your shoulders.†   (source)
  • In a slow, deliberate voice, Eragon began to recount the events that had transpired since he and Brom had left Jeod's house.†   (source)
  • Or had he witnessed the affection, the kindness, the pure love that transpired between my maid and me and believed he could include himself in this exchange?†   (source)
  • D'Ablo's eye twitched, and Vlad couldn't help but wonder how Otis knew what had transpired during the ritual.†   (source)
  • It had taken ten days for her letter to reach him and heaven only knew what might have transpired in the interval.†   (source)
  • She then whispered into the ear of Tina Coleman, who blushed as rose as the spilled blood of Mr. Williamson and went on to refuse to share with me the exchange that had transpired there between them.†   (source)
  • Inform the mages with their scrying mirrors of what has transpired here today, and then seek out the wardens of the mountain and tell them, 'Four beats upon the drum.†   (source)
  • Look, it is well within your experience to invent a fantasy of events as you think they transpired or are transpiring.†   (source)
  • Together our strength is great, and we have been able to observe much of what has transpired throughout the land in the years since.†   (source)
  • What transpired between you and Murtagh during the Battle of the Burning Plains satisfies enough of those requirements that we can now speak freely on this topic.†   (source)
  • Only Maclay was keeping a private journal of what transpired, and being the only account, it would be quoted repeatedly by latter-day historians.†   (source)
  • He feels he doesn't have the credentials to relate a tale of such intensity, all that suffering and faith and openness of emotion, transpiring in the Bronx.†   (source)
  • As Eragon contemplated the fact, something within his mind seemed to release, and he remembered—as if he had never forgotten—everything that had transpired during their time in the Vault of Souls.†   (source)
  • Eragon could tell that Nasuada wanted to know the details of what had just transpired but that she restrained herself.†   (source)
  • On the floor above, meantime, in the Banqueting Hall of the State House, another revolution was transpiring as the Pennsylvania Assembly struggled over what instructions to give its delegation.†   (source)
  • Ignoring his trepidation, Eragon cast his mind back to when Solembum had first arrived at the tent, and he carefully recalled everything that had transpired between the two of them thereafter.†   (source)
  • To John she pleaded repeatedly for more news of his health and his outlook, and filled pages with her own feelings for all that was transpiring at Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • That evening, the villagers gathered around a small banked fire in order to hear what had transpired in Narda.†   (source)
  • He jumped to his feet and ran down the stairs, waking Saphira with his mind and telling her what had transpired during the night.†   (source)
  • Perhaps when he saw me, he'd felt the way I did now: that it didn't matter what might have transpired between us, but life would not be worth living and would end soon if something happened to the other.†   (source)
  • For eight difficult, wearisome months, working under the greatest imaginable stress and with the full realization of all that was riding on what transpired in Congress, he had kept his head, kept driving toward the single surpassing objective of independence.†   (source)
  • By unspoken consent, he and Saphira avoided discussing what had transpired; further argument was pointless when neither party was willing to yield ground.†   (source)
  • Anything of importance that transpired within the American commission, or between Franklin and the French Foreign Minister, all instructions received from Congress, any confidences shared, were known by the British cabinet in London within days.†   (source)
  • Much had already transpired, as Adams learned from meetings with John Jay and a young American merchant named Matthew Ridley, whom Adams had met earlier in Holland and who, though he had no official role, seemed to know all that was going on.†   (source)
  • "Congratulate me, my dear sister, it is over," she commenced the next installment, settling in to describe in detail and with wry humor all that had transpired, and leaving little doubt as to what she thought of such business overall, or whether she was capable of meeting the test, even if it meant four hours on her feet.†   (source)
  • As a junior Bible scholar, I knew both a great deal about the Hebrews and too little, therefore I still could not truly picture what transpired at the Congregation Rodef Sholem.†   (source)
  • The time went by, and nothing transpired as to our Cornish case.†   (source)
  • It transpired that she understood and spoke French, so the conversation took place in that language.†   (source)
  • What on earth of importance could transpire in so dingy a place?†   (source)
  • It transpired that Johnston had only recently arrived from South Africa.†   (source)
  • Doubtless something more than this transpired at the time, though none of the vigilance committee ever told it that I know of.†   (source)
  • Nothing treasonable transpires at these meetings; but, once one is a Communist, one does not have to be guilty of wrongdoing to attract the attention of the police.†   (source)
  • Or what he could have learned in that interview with the lawyer, because it would be a short one; it would be next to the shortest one ever to transpire between them, the shortest one of all next to the last one of course, the one which would occur in the next summer, when Henry would be with him.†   (source)
  • There are some things which happen to us which the intelligence and the senses refuse just as the stomach sometimes refuses what the palate has accepted but which digestion cannot compass—occurrences which stop us dead as though by some impalpable intervention, like a sheet of glass through which we watch all subsequent events transpire as though in a soundless vacuum, and fade, vanish; are gone, leaving us immobile, impotent, helpless; fixed, until we can die.†   (source)
  • It seemed light, agitation, transpiring beneath a mask.†   (source)
  • "Beautiful words," and the phrase transpiring up through the crust of pain humbled him.†   (source)
  • Behind a cold exterior the most extraordinary events transpired in her mind.†   (source)
  • Fanny learnt from her all the particulars which had yet transpired.†   (source)
  • Several curious little circumstances transpired as the action proceeded.†   (source)
  • All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere.†   (source)
  • Some damning circumstance always transpires.†   (source)
  • On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the dressing-table.†   (source)
  • And Clyde, greatly reduced and saddened by the realization that his mother would be reading all that had transpired the day before.†   (source)
  • Something troglodytic, shall we say? or can it be the old story of Dr. Fell? or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent?†   (source)
  • Further, Hans Castorp read: "Affidavit "of witnesses concerning events transpiring between Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski and Herr Michael Lodygowski, parties of the first part, "and Herr Kasimir Japoll and Herr Janusz Teofil Lenart, parties of the second part, in the bar of the Kurhaus in Davos, on 2 April 19—, between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. "Inasmuch as Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski, having received and duly dated 28 March 19— and signed by his representatives, Herr Dr. Anton Cieszynski and…†   (source)
  • Her drifting faculties refused clearly to record what transpired during the next few moments; presently, however, as her mind steadied somewhat, she heard, though as in a dream, the voice of the padre hurrying over strange words.†   (source)
  • I will let you know how it transpires.†   (source)
  • Miss Henderson was a newcomer, and it was some time before rumor made her out; but finally it transpired that she was a kept woman, the former mistress of the superintendent of a department in the same building.†   (source)
  • Transpires!†   (source)
  • Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady.†   (source)
  • Just as the personal qualities of extraordinary people can make themselves plain in an unaccustomed change of expression, so the intensely calculated perfection of Villa Diana transpired all at once through such minute failures as the chance apparition of a maid in the background or the perversity of a cork.†   (source)
  • They never could agree all together; there were so many arguments upon each side, and one would be obstinate, and no sooner would the rest have convinced him than it would transpire that his arguments had caused another to waver.†   (source)
  • It transpired that he had twisted a tendon out of place, and could never have gotten well without attention.†   (source)
  • " 'Transpires'—oh yes!"†   (source)
  • The one called Lucas was a mild and meek-looking little gentleman of clerical aspect; he had been an itinerant evangelist, it transpired, and had seen the light and become a prophet of the new dispensation.†   (source)
  • Now do they show (in as many words as possible) how during some hours of yesterday evening a very peculiar smell was observed by the inhabitants of the court, in which the tragical occurrence which forms the subject of that present account transpired; and which odour was at one time so powerful that Mr. Swills, a comic vocalist professionally engaged by Mr. J. G. Bogsby, has himself stated to our reporter that he mentioned to Miss M. Melvilleson, a lady of some pretensions to musical…†   (source)
  • …that '—hum, hum, bad enough to be sure—' but trusts that a merciful Providence has seen fit'—hum, hum, hum seems to be a good, pious sort of a man, 'Duke; belongs to the Established Church, I dare say; hum, hum—' vessel sailed from Falmouth on or about the 1st September of last year, and'—hum, hum, hum, 'If anything should transpire on this afflicting subject shall not fail'— hum, hum; really a good-hearted man, for a lawyer—'but Can communicate nothing further at present'—hum, hum.†   (source)
  • [The word 'affaire' has not yet, in France, that levity of import which it conveys with us,] "but nothing whatever has transpired to throw light upon it.†   (source)
  • I briefly related to him what had transpired: the strange laugh I had heard in the gallery: the step ascending to the third storey; the smoke, — the smell of fire which had conducted me to his room; in what state I had found matters there, and how I had deluged him with all the water I could lay hands on.†   (source)
  • How much of Jewish history, how many of the many exciting incidents in that history, had transpired in caves!†   (source)
  • Chapter XXXVI IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG'S NAME IS ONCE MORE AT A PREMIUM ON 'CHANGE It is time to relate what a change took place in English public opinion when it transpired that the real bankrobber, a certain James Strand, had been arrested, on the 17th day of December, at Edinburgh.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXI Kentuck Our readers may not be unwilling to glance back, for a brief interval, at Uncle Tom's Cabin, on the Kentucky farm, and see what has been transpiring among those whom he had left behind.†   (source)
  • Still nothing else transpired for hours, that might denote the existence of any sudden, or violent, revolution in the purposes or feelings of Ishmael.†   (source)
  • It soon transpired that the eclipse had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, from one end to the other, was in a pitiable state of panic, and the churches, hermitages, and monkeries overflowed with praying and weeping poor creatures who thought the end of the world was come.†   (source)
  • Nothing transpired, however, to confirm this suspicion, and Tim could not be entrapped into any confession or admission tending to support it in the smallest degree.†   (source)
  • It then transpired that the commissary had so far stolen a march on Mrs General as to have bought himself an annuity some years before his marriage, and to have reserved that circumstance in mentioning, at the period of his proposal, that his income was derived from the interest of his money.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod's main-mast.†   (source)
  • What his subsequent conduct and proposals were is a matter of pure conjecture; but when an event transpired which rendered inquiry after the governess necessary, it was discovered she was gone — no one could tell when, where, or how.†   (source)
  • Every being possessing life and liberty had been afoot, since the first streak of grey had lighted the east; and even the youngest of the erratic brood seemed conscious that the moment had arrived, when circumstances were about to transpire that might leave a lasting impression on the wild fortunes of their semi-barbarous condition.†   (source)
  • So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.†   (source)
  • An epergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable; and, as I looked along the yellow expanse out of which I remember its seeming to grow, like a black fungus, I saw speckle-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the greatest public importance had just transpired in the spider community.†   (source)
  • She did not learn either to forget or defend the past; but she learned to hope that it would never transpire farther, and that it might not cost her Henry's entire regard.†   (source)
  • Only the thought of what was transpiring on the other side of that wall got me to my feet.†   (source)
  • /To donate/ is still under the ban, but /to transpire/ has been used by the /London Times/.†   (source)
  • From the reports of eyewitnesses it transpires that the seismic waves were accompanied by a violent atmospheric perturbation of cyclonic character.†   (source)
  • The two Fowlers, in "The King's English," separate Americanisms from other current vulgarisms, but many of the latter on their list are actually American in origin, though they do not seem to know it—for example, /to demean/ and /to transpire/.†   (source)
  • He was simply and solely, as it subsequently transpired for reasons best known to himself, which put quite an altogether different complexion on the proceedings, after the moment before's observations about boyhood days and the turf, recollecting two or three private transactions of his own which the other two were as mutually innocent of as the babe unborn.†   (source)
  • Either he petered out too tamely of acute pneumonia just when his various different political arrangements were nearing completion or whether it transpired he owed his death to his having neglected to change his boots and clothes-after a wetting when a cold resulted and failing to consult a specialist he being confined to his room till he eventually died of it amid widespread regret before a fortnight was at an end or quite possibly they were distressed to find the job was taken out of…†   (source)
  • Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps, And here you are the mothers' laps.†   (source)
  • I believe it is a true observation, that few secrets are divulged to one person only; but certainly, it would be next to a miracle that a fact of this kind should be known to a whole parish, and not transpire any farther.†   (source)
  • So down they sat, And to their viands fell; nor seemingly The Angel, nor in mist, the common gloss Of Theologians; but with keen dispatch Of real hunger, and concoctive heat To transubstantiate: What redounds, transpires Through Spirits with ease; nor wonder; if by fire Of sooty coal the empirick alchemist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold, As from the mine.†   (source)
  • In truth, madam, some such words did transpire, But that is not the joy to which I aspire, And I see elsewhere those splendid attractions Which I seek to attain through all of my actions.†   (source)
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