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Example sentences for "repassed"

Lexicographically close words:
repartimientos; repartition; repas; repass; repasse; repassing; repast; repasts; repatriated; repatriating
  1. They passed and repassed me, while I continued to lean over the railing, fearing, by a change of position, to disturb the silent strangers.

  2. Scotland being thus reduced to a state of seeming dependence, the English forces generally repassed the Tweed, although strong garrisons remained in every castle of importance.

  3. The ambition of his successors was stimulated by revenge; they repassed the Pyrenees with the means and the resolution of conquest.

  4. Again, turning towards the West and the Roman empire, they repassed the Tigris over the bridge of Mosul, and, in the captive provinces of Armenia and Mesopotamia, embraced their victorious brethren of the Syrian army.

  5. Before he repassed the Alps, the emperor chastised the revolt of the people and the ingratitude of John XII.

  6. The hostile measures of the Persians required the presence of Valens in Syria: from the Danube to the Euphrates the troops were in motion; and the capital was occasionally filled with the soldiers who passed or repassed the Thracian Bosphorus.

  7. I was mistaken: I discovered by its glare that it was from the hearth of a small log cabin, and that a tall figure passed and repassed between it and me, as if busily engaged in household arrangements.

  8. He passed and repassed me several times, and once pinched me on the side so violently that the pain nearly brought forth an exclamation of anger.

  9. I recognized, faintly, the step of Bainrothe on the stairway, distinguishing it readily from any other, as it passed and repassed my hidden door.

  10. Agents of various ranks passed and repassed between the Thames and the Hague.

  11. I passed and repassed it, till I could bear it no longer, and late one afternoon I entered just in time to be turned out with half a score of other tardy visitors who had come at the closing hour.

  12. I repassed in my thoughts whole conversations, I recollected their subjects, their arrangement, their incidents, frequently their very words.

  13. He passed and repassed along the roof; and, having set people to work in all parts, descended in order to see what could be done in any other quarter.

  14. I repassed in my thoughts every memorable incident that had happened to me under his roof.

  15. The cheering sound told them that the ships had repassed the town safely; while the French naturally concluded, that from the ships a descent was about to be attempted.

  16. He therefore repassed the batteries in safety on July 15th, and descending the river, made Pensacola the head-quarters of his squadron.

  17. That afternoon, as Mabel lay watching the drifting clouds as they passed and repassed before the window, her ear suddenly caught the sound of horses' feet.

  18. They had repassed the ruins of Fort St. Louis, and were well within the precincts of the little city, when, as they pulled up from a final gallop, mention was made of Doctor Keene.

  19. The servant repassed the door; yet when Aurora broke the silence, she spoke in English--having such hazardous things to say.

  20. Captain Clerke at last abandoned the struggle, and repassed Bering Strait on his way south on August 1st.

  21. Daily the cavalry begged to be allowed to go for the enemy in force to recover lost ground, but only once were they permitted to taste that joy, at the village of Lassigny, which they passed and repassed three times.

  22. In doing so the submarine successfully passed and repassed five lines of submerged mines and returned to its base in safety after being under water for many hours at a stretch.

  23. Old Barley was growling and swearing when we repassed his door, with no appearance of having ceased or of meaning to cease.

  24. Nor, how I passed and repassed the gate many times before I could make up my mind to ring.

  25. If you anticipate your revenue, even while in Jersey, and build castles in the air before you have repassed the sea, can I expect that you will be a better economist either of your fortune or your prudence here?

  26. A bill if vetoed by the President may be repassed by two-thirds of the senate and house of representatives.

  27. It passed another Freedmen's Bureau Bill, and then repassed it July 16th, over the President's veto.

  28. The repealing bill was vetoed by the President on the 25th of March, but it was immediately repassed by the majority necessary to override the veto, repassed without the slightest regard to the President's very sound and convincing objections.

  29. The veto of the bill was dated July 16th, and the two Houses repassed it over the veto on the same day.

  30. But the Congress treated the message with contempt and promptly repassed the resolution.

  31. Both Houses repassed the bill over the President's veto by the necessary two-thirds majority, the Senate on the 7th of January and the House on the 8th, and negro suffrage was established in the District of Columbia.

  32. Mayor Strong, of New York, however, vetoed the bill, but the Legislature immediately repassed it, and it was signed by Governor Black.

  33. It was through those very doors that Edna, my mysterious protectress, had passed and repassed to that inner room whence had come the sound of champagne being uncorked and the woman's piercing scream.


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