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Example sentences for "passing through"

  • The merchant ship Lady Elliot in passing through it, found overfalls with eighteen fathoms.

  • The vessel was whirled round several times in passing through it; but a boat, by being able to pull, might in a great measure avoid passing through them.

  • Thus saying, he made his escape from his friends, and, passing through one of the entrances to the interior, was quickly out of sight.

  • As I progress eastward, sod-houses and dug-outs become less frequent, and at long intervals frame school-houses appear to remind me that I am passing through a civilized country.

  • Sage-brush is the first thing seen on entering Nevada, almost the only vegetation seen while passing through it, and the last thing seen on leaving it.

  • Following the ridge road leading along the shore of Lake Erie to Buffalo, I ride through a most beautiful farming country, passing through "Willoughby and Mentor-Garfield's old home.

  • Nevertheless it lived, under other names and governed by unknown Chiefs, revealing itself only to those, who, in passing through a series of Degrees, had proven themselves worthy to be entrusted with the dangerous Secret.

  • Barbara drank her milk, and wandered out again; passing through a gate at the bottom of a steep, rocky tor, she sat down on a sun-warmed stone.

  • She left her bicycle, and, passing through a gate, vanished among the trees.

  • This reminds me that when we were leaving Passeriano he announced his intention of passing through Mantua.

  • In passing through Compiegne he received a visit from Father Berton, formerly principal of the military school of Brienne.

  • Though greatly exhausted he mounted another, and gained the Elster, by passing through M.

  • In passing through Quissac, where they stopped for refreshments, they were joined by Castanet who delivered a long sermon, at which all the Protestants of the neighbourhood were present.

  • Villars, as he had promised, took up Baron d'Aygaliers in passing through Lyons, so that during the rest of the journey the peacemaker had plenty of time to expatiate on his plans.

  • Scarcely had he arrived in the province when he was obliged to interrupt his work to receive the king and the queen mother, who were returning from Lyons and passing through Moulins.

  • Cavalier now set off to rejoin his troops, passing through a ravine, but he had hardly taken thirty steps when he found himself confronted by a cornet and two dragoons who were lying in ambush.

  • From above on the left, bisecting that amphitheater, wound the Smolensk highroad, passing through a village with a white church some five hundred paces in front of the knoll and below it.

  • Prince Andrew had an opportunity of getting a good look at him, for Pfuel arrived soon after himself and, in passing through to the drawing room, stopped a minute to speak to Chernyshev.

  • We saw but little of the village of Kenilworth, passing through it sidelong fashion, in the omnibus; but I learn that it has between three and four thousand inhabitants, and is of immemorial antiquity.

  • Thus only can I kindly view The world that I am passing through.

  • I've learned sad lessons from the years, But slowly, and with many tears; For God made me to kindly view The world that I am passing through.

  • God help me still to kindly view The world that I am passing through.

  • Help me till then to kindly view The world that I am passing through.

  • In passing through a turnpike gate we were greeted by a Highland drover, who, with many others, was coming from a fair at Falkirk, the road being covered all along with horsemen and cattle.

  • The difficulties of passing through a country so wild and rugged were also very great, especially in winter.

  • We went to see the scene of the battle, some three miles to the south-east, passing through a well-tilled country, with the peasants busily at work in the fields.

  • So, before the dust of Sargon's victorious armies, passing through Gaza, had settled in the roads, Micah went again to Jerusalem and launched forth earnestly and with vigor upon his prophetic mission.

  • Passing through a triumphal arch of stone and marble, the procession was met by hundreds of maidens and children, clothed in linen and gold, who led the way, singing and strewing flowers in the path of the heroes.

  • He was, evidently, passing through a great, inward struggle.

  • Passing through an ivied gateway, built in the reign of queen Elizabeth, as appears by the legible inscription (40 E.

  • At this moment a man in the Syrian dress, turban and flowing robe, is passing through one of the gateways of this street, and entering the large quadrangle to which it leads.

  • This garden court was surrounded by inhabited chambers, and, at the end of it, passing through a low arch at the side, and then mounting a few steps, he was at once admitted into a spacious and stately chamber.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural exports; black buck; fifth part; future retribution; its power; legally binding; little baby; los ojos; maternal impression; passing away; passing events; passing from; passing good; passing over; passing through; passing vessel; poor lord; shall then; short walk; thick paper; this expedition; took pity; two kinds; will help; women should; your correspondent