"Turn of events" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... behind the fire engines and ran to where Rick stood, still stunned by the shocking turn of events. ...
— The Scarlet Lake Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin
... Winesburg. "I will go to some city. Perhaps I can get a job on some newspaper," he thought, and then his mind turned to the girl with whom he was to have spent this evening and again he was half angry at the turn of events that had prevented ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson
... were mustering up the river at Chippawa, and the red lines of their veterans were descried advancing from Fort George below. Bands of Indians raced by field and forest to screen the British movements and to harass the American lines. The tragic turn of events appears to have dazed General Van Rensselaer. The failure to save the beleaguered and outnumbered Americans on the heights he blamed upon his troops, reporting next day that his reinforcements embarked very slowly. "I passed immediately over to accelerate them," said he, "but ...
— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine
... floods—that its finish is to each for itself and onward from itself—that it is profuse and impartial—that there is not a minute of the light or dark, nor an acre of the earth or sea, without it—nor any direction of the sky, nor any trade or employment, nor any turn of events. This is the reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance,—one part does not need to be thrust above another. The best singer is not the one who has the most lithe and powerful organ: the pleasure of poems is not ...
— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman
... the turn of events, agreed to be McTavish's second, and promised to get him through the affair with a whole skin and no loss ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 15, 1917 • Various
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