Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?"
Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"

Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield.

And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.

URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

[I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]

He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.

The purpose of this program is to reduce 75% of the cancer incidence resulting from area sources (defined as stationary sources which emit less than 10 tons of a single HAP or 25 tons of a combination of HAPs) of hazardous air pollutants in urban areas.

"But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,....

We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap.

The practice was, before firing a shot for the purpose of blasting, to give an order to hap the crane, that is, to cover it, in order to protect it from the effect of the shot.

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