'appen
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Far more deserving of recrimination is the illiterate dialogue inflicted on characters like Wiggins, the footman, forced to declare: “Cor blimey, I knew this was goin’ to ’appen.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017
I wouldn’t have had this ’appen for ’alf a sovereign.
From The Cabinet Minister A farce in four acts by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
The short fellow turned, and struck at me wi' somethin'; but, lucky for me, 'appen, the lashin' horse that minute took me on the foot, and brought me down.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"I knew something 'd 'appen when I see'd as how somebody had stuck a bunch of primmerroses in Blue Jenkins's toes."
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
"But I never did know such a thing to 'appen before, and I don't like it, sir, not at all I don't, I'm sure."
From Witching Hill by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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