He just watched the groom die, because that's where his eyes happened to be looking at the time.
In fact, he said, the columnist whose criticism first caught his eye happened to be black.
Then her eye happened upon something else, and her heart suddenly seemed to fill up with lead shot.
Take any instance on which the eye happens to alight.
Peter's eyes happened to focus on the face of one who seemed somewhat familiar.
Little by little she got used to it until, one day, the eye happened to form a part of her.
Wolfe sat and scowled at whatever his eyes happened to light on.
The Elder's eye now happened to fall upon the two boys who were gaping their slow way past his house.
The girl's eyes happened to turn his way, and she smiled.
His companion's eyes happened to fall upon the telltale mark.