Occasionally this would be withdrawn, but it would soon appear again, and remain motionless a long time, as though the wearer was intently gazing at something transpiring in the room which greatly interested him.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
True, he appeared to have uttered them in spite; but not the less likely was his conditional threat to have a foundation in some fact about transpiring, or that had already transpired.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Happy in the thought of having humiliated his rival, and the hope of eventually crushing him altogether, Captain Scarthe had slept soundly throughout the whole night-little suspecting the series of incidents that were transpiring, some scarce a score of yards from his couch, and all within a mile's circuit of the mansion.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid