Hilda had submitted passively to all the material changes of her life; she saw them only vaguely, concentrated on that restless inner torture.
Why did you never let anybody know you, and subsidepassively into the background role?
The little Tirzah, in her home attire, stupefied with fear, went passively with her keepers.
Thus he was carried passively along down the street, through the crowded lowlands between the hill Bezetha and the Castle of Antonia, and on by the Bethesda reservoir to the Sheep Gate.
Thence they will be passively transferred to the stomachs of cetacea, whence they bore their way through the tissues to the bronchi and pulmonary vessels.
In this new situation they develop into the so-called pupa, which is at length passively transferred with the fodder, or drink, to the digestive organs of the host.
I arrived at the conclusion that the larvæ of this parasite are passively transferred to the digestive organs of earth-worms.
These wandering tetrarhynchoid scolices never escape the body of the intermediate host until they are passively transferred into the alimentary canal of the ultimate entertainer.
All the sexually-immature nematoids are, as it were, waiting to be passively transferred to their ultimate hosts.
Christian heroism may be shown in not being afraid to flee quite as much as in courting, or passively awaiting, danger.
No one need passively submit to the pressure of circumstances; even States stand, like the Hercules of legend, at the parting of the ways.
The plan might be formed of anticipating the enemy by a sudden attack, instead of waiting passively for him to attack first, and of opening the war as the Japanese did before Port Arthur.
On all occasions, they had no other advice to give the king, than to allow himself to be directed by his great council; or, in other words, to resign himself passively to their guidance and government.
A universal massacre commenced of the English, now defenceless, andpassively resigned to their inhuman foes.
Hamilton, and his brother the earl of Laneric, who had been sent into Scotland in order to oppose, these measures, wanted either authority or sincerity; and passively yielded to the torrent.
The young monarch of France, though aspiring and warlike in his character, was at this time entirely occupied in the pleasures of love and gallantry, and had passively resigned the reins of empire into the hands of his politic minister.
And to this usurpation the king was obliged passively to submit; both because of his inability to resist, and lest he should still more expose himself to the reproach of favoring the progress of that odious rebellion.
I had in fact, merely to jump in, and allow myself to be swept passively over by the current.
We passively sat shivering in this wretched plight till long after noon, getting up now and then to have a look at the weather or to stretch our stiffened limbs.
The object is now always inconspicuous, and often practically invisible, and may be said to float passively in the environing medium.
Instead of putting it off and hastening along, she yielded herself up to the pull, and stood passively still.
The plan for Halleck's flight was no longer his own, but Atherton's; and when he did not rebel against it, he only passively acquiesced.
She resisted, with diminishing force; at last she ceased to resist, and her head fell passively to its former place on his shoulder.
He went out, and came in again with one end of a trunk, as if he had been giving the man a hand with it into the house at home, and she suffered him as passively as she had suffered him to do her such services all her life.
With an effort of will he could open his eyes, but if one tried to open them passively there was stout resistance.
He could accomplish slight active flexion of the knee-joint while lying in bed, and the toe-joint had already, before the narcosis, been both actively and passively mobile.
Internal rotation could be passively performed better than in the waking state, but this movement was still limited.
He went to the section passively, and lay passively in bed.
Analogous phenomena have been found in the sense of hearing, in such wise that the victims can, as it were, passively hear but do not listen.
The eyelids passively opened, would remain open for a few minutes and then close.
The fingers were semi-flexed and could not be passively extended.
After a few more days, the ankle became passively mobile to some degree; the patient exerted a certain resistance to passive flexion of toes and ankle.
Examined September 15, he showed a right-sided hemiplegia with stiffness of the right lower extremity so that it could not be even passively flexed.
If the forearm is moved passively and rapidly, the hand flops about inert, like the hand of a marionette, although not to the degree of hypotonia in organic paralysis.
This question is often asked anxiously by those who fear that crime or misconduct willed by one person may be passively executed by another.
To call a sensation a form of reaction means, then, that the sensation is not something done to the person, nor passively received by him from outside, but something that he himself does when aroused to this particular form of activity.
In a word, Congressional action in the District is to float passively in the wake of legislative action on the subject in those states.
Until you began to grow up I accepted things more or less passively as I found them.
A man like Gower did not lie down and submit passively to being beaten at his own game.
The farmer passively obeyed; the captain took him to his own cabin, put him in, and double-locked the door.
The poor lad never once thought of arguing or resisting; he followed his mother passively and obediently as a child.
I might have stifled the promptings of those womanly instincts which have been so frightfully outraged, and consented to remain passively in a situation where I was placed by those two friends who loved me best.
So long as Nicholas lived they had passivelyacquiesced in his system--active acquiescence had been neither demanded nor desired--but when he died, the system of which he was the soul died with him.
To him I left the entire control of our movements, passively acquiescing in everything, and asking no questions as to what was coming.
In spite of their passively conservative spirit they had to look about for some new means of obtaining food and clothing--some new mode of life requiring less extensive territorial possessions.
Many a young peasant will now thoughtlessly disguise himself, and when the consecration of the water is performed, will stand and look on passively like an ordinary spectator!
Theodore made all the arrangements, and Mrs. Bransby passively acquiesced in them.
Lucius acquiesced passively in all his father's arrangements; but he could not be induced to thaw half a degree in his personal relations with Theodore.
Taken aback she passively allowed circumstances to pilot her along; and so the voyage was made.
But he assured her he would not be gone more than a quarter of an hour at the outside, and she passively assented.
In America we do not yield passively unless we understand all the bearings of the case, and see that it is right to yield.
But they involve a similar question: whether a man should yield passively to a power that appears to be stronger than his own.
Or in what other way could it have arisen, since scales are also passively useful parts?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coldly; heavily; meekly; obediently
