Sentence:  The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head , fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed , but his face was turned to the wall - there <WSD>was</WSD> the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster - and I thought , Well you do n't look much like a pig-drunk bully now . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  happen, occur, take place; this was during the visit to my parents' house"