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Example sentences for "she passed"

  • Soon through the long aisles came Violet, flowers and green leaves rustling as she passed.

  • As she passed out of the lecture hall, she almost ran into Miss Reynolds, who was on her way downstairs.

  • Read that, dear," she said, in a repressed tone, as she passed it to her pupil.

  • She passed it to her friend, then bent over her box of crimson beauties, as if to inhale their perfume, but really to hide the deepening color in her cheeks.

  • But poor little Mary looked upon the scene with a heavy eye; all the fresh growth of nature seemed but to mock her as she passed through it.

  • Many persons saw her as she passed, reeling in her walk, and with her sweet face flushed crimson; but, alas!

  • She passed him, and Soames went in with his noiseless step, his jaw firmly set, his eyes furtive.

  • She could hear old Jolyon in his room as she passed.

  • From that piece of philosophy--profound enough at her age--she passed to another consideration less philosophic.

  • She passed, dancing with other men, her dress, iris-coloured, floating away from her feet.

  • Angelica tossed him a nod as she passed up the room in a business-like way to where her grandfather was sitting facing the window.

  • Angelica saw a manservant standing beside some baggage as she passed, and wondered who had arrived.

  • A young woman with her baby in her arms was standing at the door of her cottage looking out as she passed, and she stopped to speak to her.

  • She passed out of the room--and left them together.

  • The footsteps of Catherine Linley were inaudible as she passed through, and entered the room.

  • Don't be discouraged," he whispered as she passed him; "you shall hear from me.

  • The view from the window (as she passed it, walking up and down the room) offered her little help in forecasting the future.

  • Janet could see the brilliantined black heads of the two proprietors bending over their boards, and sometimes they would be lifted to smile at her as she passed.

  • And in this interval Mademoiselle shot at Nick a swift and withering look as she passed him.

  • As she passed to and fro from the dining-room to the kitchen Hannah's lamentations continued, grew more and more querulous.

  • Madame Gratiot presented us to her mother, and as she passed on to the gate Madame Chouteau reminded us that we were to dine with her at two.

  • Then swaying a little, so that her hair and the flower in it almost touched his face, she passed, and there in her stead stood Oliver.

  • She passed on a few steps, her thoughts still of Mary, till the idea crossed her mind, could it (blank as it appeared to be) give any clue to the murderer?

  • She kissed th' sleeping babby as she passed, when I paid her.

  • Through duties and trials, through floods and flames, she passed, shrinking from no danger and shunning no sacrifice.

  • As she passed along, one object of interest after another presented itself.

  • He hoped she had not seen him, and, as she passed out, so placed himself that she must see him, and secured for his pains only a slight, cold inclination of the head.

  • She passed on, not appearing to see him while with her father, and Dennis's heart sank again.

  • She passed me in the doorway without a word.

  • She passed us with her partner, and sat down in a chair a few rows to our right.

  • She passed into a dreamland where all she had newly learnt was reproduced and glorified.

  • She passed upstairs, and he followed more slowly.

  • She passed on into Paradise Street and entered Mrs. Bower's shop.

  • As she passed on from parish to parish, the simple Canadian peasant, always friendly to the American cause, welcomed with warm hospitality the handsome young woman, the story of whose singular bravery and devotion had reached their ears.

  • As she passed out of the house for the last time, dragging a heavy chest of clothes, she looked once more despairingly up the clearing and saw a man running at full speed.

  • All the miners quit work and gathered in the village; a party was appointed to escort her to the mountain and the rest formed a long line on each side and stood bareheaded and some of them weeping as she passed through.

  • As she passed me, she gave me a poke with the pail in the ribs, and whispered with a sneer, 'Arn't you a coward!

  • She passed me on the stairs as I proceeded to the part of the building where the women were kept; but on perceiving a stranger, she turned her head away, so that I could not get a glimpse of her face.

  • And with a slight smile, she passed out, leaving the fruiterer chuckling over the thought that he had probably had the pleasantest bit of trade on Broadway that dull day.

  • All save the "baser sort" shrank from having much to do with them, and again Edith was insulted by the bold advances of some brazen clerks and shop-boys as she passed along.

  • Though not a beautiful girl, there was a prettiness, a rural breeziness about her, that would cause any one to look twice as she passed.

  • Zell was now sobbing, partly in sorrow and partly in anger, but she let fly a few more Parthian arrows over her shoulder as she passed out.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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