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Example sentences for "pass the"

  • If he went out at all after dinner, it was only to pass the evening at the house of some rich client in the neighborhood.

  • Pass the deal," whispered Ferdinand, and Pascal followed this advice.

  • If he wins, he is free to follow up his vein of good-luck, or to pass the deal.

  • I then started for Cerrig-y-Drudion, distant about ten miles, where I proposed to pass the night.

  • As I was yet eight miles from Tregaron, the place where I intended to pass the night, I put on my best pace.

  • As it was Sunday I determined to pass the day at Bala, and accordingly took my Prayer Book out of my satchel, and also my single white shirt, which I put on.

  • I was conducted into the coffee-room of the White Lion by a little freckled maid whom I saw at the bar, and whom I told that I was come to pass the night at the inn.

  • The horses had been secured to some scattering shrubs that grew in the fissures of the rocks, where, standing in the water, they were left to pass the night.

  • It was not without great difficulty, and after several fruitless attempts, that Constantine found means to pass the river at some distance above the city, and in a place where the torrent was less violent.

  • He resolved to pass the remainder of his days in honorable repose, to place his glory beyond the reach of fortune, and to relinquish the theatre of the world to his younger and more active associates.

  • He ordered his followers to disperse, to pass the Alps in small parties and various disguises, and to assemble at Rome, during the licentious tumult of the festival of Cybele.

  • He had passed two months in the delightful privacy of BaiƦ, when he reluctantly obeyed the summons of the consul to resume his honorable place in the senate, and to assist the republic with his counsels on this important occasion.

  • The ungrateful rumor reached his ears, and induced him to seek the retirement of one of his villas in Campania.

  • The men at the windlasses spat into their horny palms and bent to the crank: they paused only to pass the back of a hand over a sweaty forehead, or to drain a nose between two fingers.

  • While upon the journey she had undertaken, she chanced to enter in his company, in order to pass the night, a dwelling, the funeral of whose dead master was being conducted with melancholy rites.

  • But he did not wish to pass the kindness of the youth unrequited, and rewarded the esteem he had shown him with the mantle he had cast among the thorns.

  • Old vessels were purchased at the price of new, and the government agent received a bribe from the owners to pass the vessels on survey.

  • The fifteen large sloops had failed to pass the cataract; thus, I was reduced to the miserable open vessels of Khartoum, and even these were of an inferior description and few in number.

  • Quat Kare, with his wives and daughters and general retinue, determined to pass the night in our station.

  • He assured me that the Shillook country was in excellent order; and that according to the instructions received from the Khedive he had exerted himself against the slave trade, so that it was impossible for vessels to pass the station.

  • One morning, at Marty, wishing to escape too early, the Duchess caused me to be forbidden to pass the doors of the salon; several of us had the same fate.

  • The King of England cried out so loudly against this, and proposed so eagerly that an attempt should be made to pass the enemy at all risks, that a fleet was sent out to reconnoitre the enemy, and the troops were re-embarked.

  • I say magnanimous offer, because Boufflers, loaded with honours and glory, might well have hoped to pass the rest of his life in repose.

  • He had allowed Prince Eugene to pass the Po, nearly in front of him, and nobody knew what had become of twelve of our battalions posted near the place where this passage had been made.

  • Their chamber, in which they invited several ladies to pass the night in armchairs, became immediately a palace of Morpheus.

  • Give her a sincere repentance for all her transgressions and omissions, and a firm resolution to pass the remainder of her life in endeavouring to her utmost to observe all thy precepts.

  • St. Aubert, however, conjectured that the distance could not be very great, and comforted himself with the prospect of travelling on a more frequented road after reaching that town, where he designed to pass the night.

  • St. Aubert began to look out for the little town he had been directed to by the people of Beaujeu, and where he meant to pass the night; but no habitation yet appeared.

  • I suppose it was not safe to trust the Parisians in the covert of its shades after nightfall, and no one could tell what foreign fanatics and assassins might do if they were permitted to pass the night so near the imperial residence.

  • Agreeable people he could find at home, if his only object was to pass the time.

  • A more uninviting forest to pass the night in I never saw.

  • The duke, therefore, boldly refusing to pass the warrant, stopped the grant.

  • However, in order to pass the time, he begged his host might show the jewels to their young friends.

  • Herbert and the sailor had not to look long for a place in which to pass the night.

  • It was then agreed that the engineer and the reporter were to pass the day at the Chimneys, so as to examine the shore and the upper plateau.

  • It would therefore be necessary to pass the night on the promontory.

  • Pass the gates of Luthany, tread the region Elenore.

  • In that one word is strong An else, alas, much-mortal song; With sight to pass the frontier of all spheres, And voice which does my sight such wrong.

  • There was to be a little party on the occasion, Miss Agnes having invited some half-dozen families of the neighbourhood to pass the evening at Wyllys-Roof.

  • Mrs. Graham is to pass the winter in New York, I hear.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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