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Sometimes it seemed almost indecent: after all, this shadowing and spying were transpiring over a fresh grave.

From Time Magazine Archive

The intricate events of man's upward struggle were transpiring in Europe, Asia and Africa.

From Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various

It was doubtless of advantage to him, quickening his faculties and maturing his character, that such events were transpiring about him at this plastic period.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

ALL this happened in exalted spheres, while in the obscure regions of private life events were transpiring which, albeit not so memorable, were of some importance to those concerned.

From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

While these things were transpiring, Kilpatrick moved his division from Falling Waters to Boonsboro' by way of Williamsport and Hagerstown.

From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.