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Example sentences for "what passed"

  • A confidential document, written with the prince's own hand, and drawn up in order to justify his memory in the eyes of his children and his friends, informs us of what passed at this interview.

  • What passed at the Tuileries during these decisive hours?

  • The mountaineers of Gascony were far removed from the seat of government, and were but imperfectly informed of what passed there.

  • What passed at the first interview led him to expect that the negotiation would be brought to a satisfactory close; but on the morrow he found the King less complying.

  • What passed in private between him and them cannot be accurately related; but the result was soon apparent.

  • The government was anxious to have information of what passed in their secret councils; and no man was better qualified to furnish such information than Barère.

  • If any remembrance of me should ever intrude to give a moment's uneasiness to that tender bosom, think of my unworthiness; and let the remembrance of what passed at Upton blot me for ever from your mind.

  • But before we proceed to what passed on his arrival in the kitchen, it will be necessary to recur to what had there happened since Partridge had first left it on his master's summons.

  • It is a direct copying from nature, a plain rehearsal of what passed, or was supposed to pass, in conversation.

  • Private causes were still pleaded in the forum; but the public were no longer interested, nor was any general attention drawn to what passed there.

  • It is copying directly from nature; giving a plain rehearsal of what passed, or was supposed to pass, in conversation.

  • Private causes were still pleaded [in the forum]: but the public was no longer interested; nor any general attention drawn to what passed there.

  • The government was anxious to have information of what passed in their secret councils; and no man was better qualified to furnish such information than Barere.

  • We were cordial, and merry to a high degree; but of what passed I have no recollection, with any accuracy.

  • I have preserved nothing of what passed, except that Dr.

  • Johnson the justice to contradict a very absurd and ill-natured story, as to what passed at St. Andrews.

  • They would scarcely have left Him alone especially in that place; and the whole narrative reads like one who had been present at what passed.

  • The report of what passed reads, more than almost any other in the gospels, like notes taken at the time by one who was present.

  • My correspondence relative to what passed in the south of France and of Europe presented to me, if I may so express myself, merely an anecdotal interest.

  • As to what passed at the sitting, the accounts, given both at the time and since, have varied according to opinions.

  • Such was, to the best of my recollection, what passed at my first interview with Josephine after my return from Hamburg.

  • The official report of what passed at Jaffa was drawn up by Berthier, under the eye of Bonaparte.

  • He had heard a report of what passed at a time when my name was unknown to him, as also was that of his assailant.

  • Being forewarned by William Rossetti of his brother's peculiar sensitiveness to critical attack, and having, moreover, observed something of the kind myself, I tried to avoid a circumstantial statement of what passed.

  • My dear Sister,--The papers will scarcely contain any account of what passed yesterday in the House of Commons in the middle of the day.

  • It was a Wednesday, and the reporters gave hardly any account of what passed.

  • As to what passed in the interval, we are quite in the dark.

  • Besides, having lived for two years past in solitude, without observing the course of events, I was unconnected with the affairs of the world, and not informed of what passed, nor desirous of being acquainted with it.

  • This friendly attention was not lost upon my heart, and could Saint Lambert have read what passed there, he certainly would have been satisfied with it.

  • I therefore took the liberty in the first instance of scolding him for his profound ignorance of what passed at the Court, and was bold enough to say to him that he had only to thank himself for the situation he found himself in.

  • On the other side was a little salon, devoted to very private purposes, and filled with valets, who could hear distinctly every word of what passed.

  • I found many things which gave me great Delight; and as human Life turns upon the same Principles and Passions in all Ages, I thought it very proper to take Minutes of what passed in that Age, for the Instruction of this.

  • When the whole Race of Mankind had thus cast their Burthens, the Phantome which had been so busie on this Occasion, seeing me an idle Spectator of what passed, approached towards me.

  • What passed, and whither I had bent my steps, I cannot tell.

  • How I arrived in London, that is to say, what passed, or what we passed, I know not: my mind was in such a state of excitement.

  • He was this evening in remarkable vigour of mind, and eager to exert himself in conversation, which he did with great readiness and fluency; but I am sorry to find that I have preserved but a small part of what passed.

  • Adams, who afterwards presided over Pembroke College with universal esteem, told me he was present, and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford.

  • Johnson, on whom I happened to call in the morning, said he would join us, which he did, and we spent a very agreeable day, though I recollect but little of what passed.

  • I pre-supposed of attack, inquiry, and acrimony, was nothing to what passed.

  • The dinner conversation was too general to be well remembered; neither, indeed, shall I attempt more than partial scraps relating to matters of what passed when we adjourned to tea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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