It is about half-past seven o'clock in the evening.
Walk easy past that little house beyond," says he in a whisper, turning round and pointing with his staff into the valley.
The road turns and twists--past a cabin, over a bridge--between fringes of wet grass.
I looked at my watch, and told him it was five-and-twenty past seven.
The parties of the Chamber had for these two years past been laying mine and countermine among the very deepest foundations of society.
Least of all could this force be relied upon to rise in defence of the very chief whose every word for many weekspast had been a protest against the Communal leaders.
Katie instructed all the sitters but myself to keep their seats and to keep conditions; but for some time past she has given me permission to do what I liked--to touch her, and to enter and leave the cabinet almost whenever I pleased.
Brisson's head and past the edge of the curtain, which is pulled up and back.
Baschet about these phenomena, had glided past the window to the rear of the curtain, in order to observe carefully what was passing.
For three years past you have been repeating that, but you have done nothing of the kind.
By means of a woman who was nursing her, she sent for two men who in past times had been favoured lovers.
To him death would have been welcome, for his agony was past enduring, and he had no hope of alleviation till he died.
The course I took brought me past the one I had killed, which I picked up, and thrust hastily into my bag.
The chiguires that escaped past the crocodile, the next instant plunged into the river, and disappeared under the water.
It was certain that the one that had just swept past was on a very extensive scale.
On this account every one of them had concealed themselves behind the trunk of the nwana-tree, Von Bloom peeping past one side, and Hendrik the other, in order to watch his movements.
The opportunity at length arrived; and, nerving himself for the race, the hunter sprang past the moose, brushing the very tips of its antlers.
This of course brought it close past where Lucien was; but, notwithstanding his eagerness to fire, it moved so rapidly along the trail that he was unable to take sight upon it.
Without firing a shot, therefore, he galloped onpast the blown bull, headed him, turned him round, and then drove him before him in the direction of the cliff.
Notwithstanding the many losses and crosses of his past life, there was contentment in his eye.
The wage-winners of Durham and Northumberland, under the guidance of able and earnest leaders, have won many ameliorations during the pasttwenty years.
During the past ten years Massachusetts has given all her children a minimum of seven years of schooling, while Tennessee has given her children but three years.
Those who despise and condemn the Constitution have in the past ten years had more earnest students of their vicious doctrines than have those who uphold the Constitution and prize their liberties which the Constitution guards and protects.
That is why we have considered in a general way something of the problems of the human race under the past governments of the world.
From whatever there was of good in the systems of former centuries, she drew her nourishment; the wrecks of the past were her warnings.
Captain Webb, as we have seen, had traced the course of that river past the valley of Dhoun, to Cadjani, near Reital.
Crump told his story of the "Bootjack," and whose boot it had drawn; the former Miss Delancy expatiated on her past theatrical life, and the pictures hanging round the room.
He hated the harsh, incessant noise of the grinding rails, the swaying and lurching of the trucks, the dizzying procession of the landscape past the barred slits which served as windows to his car.
But each, on arriving at a hoop, crouched flat and scurried under it like a frightened cat--except the white goat, which pranced aside and capered past derisively.
He wandered aimlessly past some grotesque, goatish-looking deer which did not interest him, and came suddenly upon a paddock containing a bull moose, two cows, and a yearling calf.
He had too lively a memory of past discomfitures to risk a fresh one now in the face of this insolent foe.
The traveller himself did not seem to find it altogether satisfactory, for all at once he sprang upward nimbly, clear of the bottom, and gathered his eight tentacles into a compact parallel bunch extending straight out past his eyes.
Though she had survived herself, I cannot think without pain of the part of the past which is buried with her, for when one loses friends one loses not only them but a part of one's self.
During dinner the King spoke of nothing but traditions and memories of the past and ancient castles.
Another of the curiosities of the place is a number of trees so old that, in the time of Cromwell, they were already past being used for shipbuilding.
She insisted on my hearing her history during the past twelve years; and she tells it so well that I thought she must have had some practice in pouring it into the ears of others than myself in these cooing tones.
Talleyrand is gone and has left behind a sense of fatigue and oppression which is the more felt as their long standing friendship and the remembrance of their past intimacy hardly permit them to make an end of it.
Your business, Gentlemen, is to labour to deserve that the past should be forgotten, and it is only by your devotion to my government that you can achieve this.
He expressed regret in humble terms for the past and promised to be good in the future.
But four years ago when I arrived in this city I had neither pleasant memories of thepast nor much interest in the present, nor much thought for the future.
Lady Clanricarde came to breakfast yesterday, and at half-past eleven we left for the Academie francaise.
There is no procession; the Court makes its entry when all the company is assembled and makes a tour of the ladies, after which the men present file pastby themselves.
Then, as the sled with Mike lying flat on it shot past them, they greeted him with a shout.
He went with noiseless footsteps up his own stairs, past the dark doors below, past Edith's open door where the lamp still burned brightly beyond the threshold.
He was past caring for what anybody might think of him.
It was past eight, yet Maggie left the altar standing with the cloth on it, and waited.
It was seldom that he kept her waiting past five o'clock.
It was five o'clock on one of her Thursdays, and Mrs. Eliott had been conversing with great sweetness and fluency ever since half-past three.
And he was prepared to overlook the past and make Maggie his wife and mistress of the house fronting the pier.
They dined at seven o'clock in Thurston Square, and at half-past seven in Prior Street, so that she would be well out of the house before Gorst came into it.
He had his dinner, and then went away about half-past two.
It was Mary Moeller who brought Fred's "old woman" a handful of the sweet hay every time she left the young calves and went past the stable where the riding-horses were kept.
Alick, moreover, deceived himself, he thought he could guide Frida safely past the stone that lay in her path without her ever being aware of its existence, and he knew that the road was clear on the other side of it.
Nothing could have been better timed, for it was long past the usual hour.
Braesig as Fred galopped pastthe farm-house, but he received no answer.
For two hours past and more a dozen willing women had swept and cleaned; the fires had been lit, and there was plenteous food of a sort in the kitchen and the store-room.
The road runs past the Abbey, and that priest has good ruffians in his pay who can hold their tongues.
Cicely crept forward; over the dead she went and past the priest till she stood face to face with the prisoner.
Emlyn," exclaimed Cicely at last, "in past days you were wont to be full of comfortable words; have you never a one in this extreme?
She found him adding up figures on paper, a very different Christopher to the broken man they had rescued from the dungeon, though still much aged by the terrors of the past year and just now looking rueful.
In an instant he turned and was running past them like a hare.
Christopher, looking past him, saw that others of the company had dismounted and were running towards the bridge.
They went on through the dead winter silence, that was broken only by the hoots of a flitting owl hungry for the food that it could not find, and the swish of the feet of a galloping fox as it looped past them through the snow.
She knew not, who had naught but faith to lean on, that faith which in the past had served her well.
All through the holy office Cicely watched these statues with fascinated eyes, and it seemed to her that they and the old crusaders, Harfletes of a long-past day who lay near by, were watching her with a wistful and kindly interest.
At length, desirous of attributing to Rome the most glorious past possible, he revived the old legend which claimed that the ancient kings of Rome descended from the famous kings of Troy in her zenith, and he composed the Aeneid.
The tale of the men whom he had whipped in the past and promised to whip in the future if they raised a finger against him would almost have made a census of the valley.
In my boyhood I went fishing and tumbled into a mountain stream; I overheard Boller of '89 speaking to Gladys Todd; I walked the Avenue at half past three in the afternoon and met Penelope Blight.
They moved with a majesty that sent my thoughts hurling down into the past to match them.
McGraw's past and future were of no moment to me; her growth was nothing.
From the past came the picture of the Professor at the bare table in the cabin, pointing a long finger at me.
I looked past him at Penelope, sitting very straight, with her hands in her lap as my father had placed them.
Sometimes at night in my room, sitting with my book at my side neglected, I would stare vacantly at the wall and treat myself to a feast of dreams, contentedly munch the most delicate morsels of the past and present.
There was here a gentle hint that my past had not been altogether good or full of promise, and as Mr. Pound undoubtedly believed this, it made more generous his conduct toward me.
Had Penelope spent hours in devising a way of making it plain to me that the link between the past and the present was broken, she could not have been more adroit.
And by right of that past and present it was almost fore-ordained that Penelope and I were to go down the years together.
That night the city seemed more my own home than ever before and the future to hold for me more than the past had promised.
I was looking past Penelope to the woman with the Pomeranian.
On taking up the Standard next morning, we found ourselves treated to an editorial notice chronicling our visit to the Argentine capital, and referring to the past and present services of H.
Poor pay it was indeed, for the man's earnings during the past month had been barely ten shillings.
A horror of any kind was no sooner past than it was straightway forgotten, and the facetious animal would advance with arched back and glaring eyes in defiance of an incursive hen, or twirl in mad hopeless career after its own miserable tail!
This, Captain Dan explained, was the space that had once been occupied by a rich lode of ore, all of which had been removed years ago, to the great commercial advantage of a past generation.
Fortunately, baby gave in about half-past nine, so that little Grace had him washed and dressed, and on his way to chapel in pretty good time, all things considered.
As the torrent tore past this place, bearing splintered timber, stones, and rubbish along with it, an iron wagon was caught up and flung across the level.
Zackey had been working for a week past in connection with Penrose, and, at the time he was called, was engaged in his wonted occupation of pounding "tamping" wherewith to fill the hole.
Acting on this opinion the men rowed past the object that was floating on the sea, and soon after began to fish; but they had not fished long when the dead body, drifted probably by some cross-current, appeared close to them again.
He was past his prime at the period of which we write, and a confirmed bachelor.
And it so befell that the King, coming by chance, or else from a sense of remorse, past the tower, was touched by the voice of the young Avenant, whom he had once so much regarded.
Yes," she answered; "but I have been thinking of poor John, who is past our prayers.
In the evening, while the Princess, with her mother and sisters, was standing at the window, the Prince suddenly galloped past on his steed and threw her the golden apple.
She found she was able to say whatever she pleased, with a readiness past belief, and to say it in a clever, but easy and natural manner.
As her mother was giving Nabla the whacking she had so richly earned, who should happen to be riding past but the King's son himself.
The only way to getpast the animals was to throw them a huge cake made from crocodiles' eggs, millet, and sugar candy.
See here," added the stranger, "what will compensate for all your past misery.
How you accomplished your conversion It bangs poor me past comprehension.
In the past they have used the printed and spoken word, and under favorable circumstances even political action.
Shridharani assures us that despite Gandhi's insistence to the contrary, "In the light of events in India in the past twenty years as well as in the light of certain of Gandhi's own activities, .
The storm abates at every gust it blows; Pastills enhance the comforts of repose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
