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Example sentences for "had passed"

  • He hurried by, and when he had passed it he found himself exactly abreast of her again.

  • I left the gloomy abode, in which I had passed my childhood and part of my youth, to enter one of the seminaries of the Company.

  • The cannon vomited its hail of death, but when the flame and smoke had passed, the tall man stood erect as before, smiling pityingly on the gunner, who fell on his knees as frightened as if he beheld Satan himself.

  • They fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for the consent of the nation.

  • But we are going to change all that; it is high time!

  • The sun was setting; their appetites were satisfied.

  • All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her.

  • One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen years.

  • They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed.

  • A breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad woman had become a corpse again.

  • Fauchelevent had been a success during the something more than two years which he had passed in the convent.

  • Out in the rain-slashed street I met the colonel of a battalion of Argylls and Sutherlands, with several of his officers; a tall, thin officer with a long stride, who was killed when another year had passed.

  • The count inquired whether any of the ancient jailers were still there; but they had all been pensioned, or had passed on to some other employment.

  • As to Dantes, he had passed it on his voyage to and from the Levant, but never touched at it.

  • The prisoner reproached himself with not having thus employed the hours he had passed in vain hopes, prayer, and despondency.

  • Perhaps I turned pale and trembled, but certainly I smiled; and five minutes after I left, without having heard one word that had passed.

  • He had passed and re-passed his Island of Monte Cristo twenty times, but not once had he found an opportunity of landing there.

  • All at once, on the track over which he had passed, he heard a sound that made him bound to his feet in deadly fear--the bay of a dog!

  • Rufus Dawes, exhausted with the excitement through which he had passed, had slept for two or three hours, when he was awakened by the motion of the vessel going on the other tack.

  • The evening passed as it had passed a hundred times before; and having smoked a pipe at the barracks, Captain Frere returned home.

  • More than half his allotted time had passed, and he was not yet thirty miles from his prison.

  • He looked as haggard and worn as I did: I learned afterwards that he had passed most of that fearful night pacing the passage outside my door, though he listened in vain for any indication of what was going on within the room.

  • Simply that, on the evening of the night when Lieschen was murdered, I had passed in a public thoroughfare a man whom I could not identify, but who as I could not help fancying, seemed to recognize me.

  • But neither in the street he had passed through, nor in the one which his eager glance pervaded, could he see anyone; however slowly the stranger had walked, he was gone on his way, or perhaps had entered some house.

  • The young man was more pale than usual, and his eyes, reddened by want of sleep, denoted that he had passed a feverish night.

  • Placed between life and death, as Bernajoux was, he had no idea for a moment of concealing the truth; and he described to the two nobles the affair exactly as it had passed.

  • It was another blow; but perhaps it may help people to understand how overwhelmingly awful was the experience through which we had passed--we did not feel it much at the time.

  • To begin with, my mind was too weary with all the emotions through which I had passed, and, in the second place, I knew that I should get the worst of it.

  • Of the last forty hours he had passed thirty-five on horseback.

  • The three years and a half which followed his scourging he had passed in one of the cells of Newgate, except when on certain days, the anniversaries of his perjuries, he had been brought forth and set on the pillory.

  • Indeed, while James was loudly boasting that he had passed an Act granting entire liberty of conscience to all sects, a persecution as cruel as that of Languedoc was raging through all the provinces which owned his authority.

  • Yet that Convention had, after his Restoration, continued to sit and to legislate, had settled the revenue, had passed an Act of amnesty, had abolished the feudal tenures.

  • She had heard it before, and it had passed her by like a sound that she did not know.

  • At midnight, when there was a moon, I sometimes met with hounds in my path prowling about the woods, which would skulk out of my way, as if afraid, and stand silent amid the bushes till I had passed.

  • He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places.

  • I sometimes found the name of his native parish handsomely written in the snow by the highway, with the proper French accent, and knew that he had passed.

  • Fellow-travellers as they rattled by compared it aloud with the fields which they had passed, so that I came to know how I stood in the agricultural world.

  • Our total bag was now wretchedly small, considering the quantity of ground that we had passed over.

  • Had we remained a week in the district through which we had passed so rapidly, we must have had most excellent sport.

  • We had passed a toilsome day in pushing and dragging our ponies for twenty miles along a narrow path through thick jungle, which half-a-dozen natives in advance were opening before us with bill-hooks.

  • I was resigned, and blessed the world and all the years which I had passed in it.

  • The result was that I enjoyed a very pleasant night, far more to my satisfaction than if I had passed it with Faustina.


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