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Example sentences for "passed several"

  • We passed several villages, both to our right and left, but most of them were at a distance, and their names did not accord with those of the Bible.

  • We passed several fields of the castor-oil plant, and were informed, on inquiry, that they extract the oil from it.

  • We passed several hills at the latter part of the stage.

  • For the first three miles, we passed several plains, and crossed a creek in which we recognised a Casuarina, which tree we had not seen since we left the Mitchell.

  • Passed several streams, and a pretty fall, the water falling down a cliff almost perpendicular, about 100 feet high.

  • We passed several (six or seven) villages, none except one with more than thirty houses; the one alluded to had sixty.

  • We passed several villages, some containing twenty or thirty houses, and on halting found ourselves towards the edge of the cultivated tract alluded to, as seen from Linge.

  • We passed several days in this place, which laid the foundation for a long acquaintance, and for my subsequent labors in that community.

  • I passed several weeks in Gilmanton, attending school a part of the time, and freely enjoyed the company of my young friends.

  • Returning to Pittsford on the 8th, he passed several days in social conversation and public discourse with the Christians of his community, who were alive in the joy, light and peace of the kingdom of God.

  • Beyond the island of St. Joseph we passed several islets of rock with fir-trees growing from the clefts.

  • We passed several sepulchres, a number of which lie scattered over the sandy hills and plains round us.

  • During the night we passed several trains of camels, some in motion, some at rest, often consisting of more than a hundred.

  • In the course of the day we passed several islands.

  • Side Called Shepperds Creek, passed Several Islands to day great Deal of Deer Sign on the Bank one man out hunting, w Camped on an Island on the Starboard Side near the Southern extrem of Luter Island.

  • Side, above this place is the mouth of a Small Creek Called queivere, passed Several Islands, two Small Creeks on the Stbd.

  • This Day we passed Several Islands, and Some high lands on the Starboard Side, Verry hard water.

  • We passed several sandbars, which make the river very shallow and about a mile in width, and encamped on the south, at the distance of eleven and a half miles.

  • From this place we passed several sandbars, which make the river shallow, and about a mile in width.

  • At two miles beyond this the valley widens: we passed several bends of the river, and encamped in the centre of one on the south, having made twenty-one miles.

  • We passed several groupes of Aborigines, and occasionally saw many of their huts and places of abode.

  • In the course of our route we passed several parties of negroes and some of Indians, working at repairs in the road, or making new branches from it.

  • We passed several huts of Felahs, who live here the whole summer, and retire in winter to their villages.

  • This day we passed several Wadys of Talh and tamarisk trees intermixed with low shrubs.

  • We passed several torrents, and had great difficulty in getting through the swampy soil.

  • We passed several sheets of water, however, some of which had a depth of two feet, although the greater number were shallow.

  • As we pursued our journey homewards on the following day, we passed several flights of dotterel making to the south, this being the first migration we had observed in that direction.

  • The weather was fine and clear, and we passed several encampments.

  • We passed several encampments of the natives, and a river which flowed in from the North, that had the appearance of being navigable.

  • We passed several places, where fires had been made by the natives, and many tracks were perceptible along the beach.

  • In my walk thither I passed several cottages, and entered some.

  • We passed several groups of villagers reposing themselves under the shade: I should not indeed say reposing, for they were romping, running, and conversing with all the characteristic merriment of the country.

  • In this interval, however, I passed several chateaux in ruins, and several farms and houses, on which were affixed notices that they were to be let or sold.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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