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Example sentences for "pass away"

  • I must force myself to recall the circumstances as told me and vaguely remembered, for I am not willing that my doomed and wholly exceptional life should pass away unrecorded, unexplained, unvindicated.

  • Wait not for spring to pass away, --Love's summer months begin with May!

  • All this had to pass away in a little time; I had chosen my profession, and must meet its painful and repulsive aspects until they lost their power over my sensibilities.

  • Disagree with him as we might, the effect which he had already produced was unmistakable, and it is not likely to pass away.

  • But now these doubts, too, pass away in the brave certainty that God is not less just than man.

  • Their life was a long battle, either with the elements or with men; and it was enough for them to fulfil their work, and to pass away in the hour when God had nothing more to bid them do.

  • He prays only once that the cup pass away, and then with submission; and twice that it come if necessary.

  • We conceal it from our sight, because it troubles us; and if it be delightful to us, we regret to see it pass away.

  • Let us see if this pleasure is stable or transitory; if it pass away, it is a river of Babylon.

  • To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.

  • The fact that he has made the one set of relations permanent, and the other more or less dependent on conditions of mankind, or to pass away in the advancement of human progress, does not touch the question.

  • Let him know that slavery is to pass away in the fulness of Providence.

  • Let him know that slavery is to pass away, in the fulness of Providence.

  • Speak, from your homes of darkness and dismay,-- To what new being do ye pass away?

  • For if the signs of righteousness and mercy and truth abide in the Church, those other signs may perchance be suffered to pass away.

  • For he teacheth that heaven and earth shall pass away, but his words shall remain for ever.

  • From henceforth old things seemed to pass away, and all things became new unto us.

  • This has been followed by a sudden descent of all the carbide in the store into the water beneath, and the evolution of gas has sometimes been too rapid to pass away at the necessary speed into the holder.

  • Come then, O thou blind Pharisee, let us pass away a few minutes in some discourse about this.

  • Now it is more possible for heaven and earth to pass away, than for my Father to break his word (Matt 5:18).

  • All this unseemly violence has passed away, and with it much of the virulence of persecution; soon may it pass away altogether, only to be pointed at as the evidence of a barbarous age.

  • We darken sun and moon, and blot the day, The good Will of our Maker to obey: Till to the glory of God we pass away.

  • S: And even if there were a Quran with which the mountains were made to pass away, or the earth were travelled over with it, or the dead were made to speak thereby; nay!

  • You know God says, heaven and earth, shall pass away, but His word shall not pass away.

  • For the Scripture says, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but God's word, shall not pass away.

  • Esdr 13:20 Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that happen in the last days.

  • Death approaches and he has to pass away from a world that seems to have failed him.

  • And why wilt Thou not pardon my transgression, And cause my sin to pass away?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beautifully written; bless you; brilliant yellow; pass after; pass from; pass judgment; pass laws; passage home; passage through; passed close; passed down; passed over; passed through; passenger cargo; passenger trains; passerine birds; passes over; passing away; passing good; passing the; passive verb; public matters; quite natural; say unto; seven pounds; shall describe