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Passages necessarily omitted have been restored, and points briefly touched have been more fully considered. [3]

Sentences ending with passages

The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages. [2]
Indeed, my clothes were by no means handsome, and save for my well-shaven face and clean handkerchief I was an ill-favoured spectacle; but I tried to bear my shoulders up as we marched through dark reeking corridors, and presently came suddenly into well-lighted passages. [11]
It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. [2]
He had seen the affectionate passages. [11]
If he had opened them he would have seen a profusion of marginal notes in pencil, and slips of paper stuck in the pages to mark important passages. [11]
I owe him many a hint, much aid; I mean in referring me to rare books, and explaining obscure passages. [10]
He listened while Jehudi read the opening passages. [6]
He brought out his Bible from the house, and, walking up and down, read aloud certain passages. [11]
That seems to be the meaning of the quoted passages. [5]
Several, however, and among them the fair Glycera who a few hours since had smiled down triumphantly on her worshippers as Aphrodite, availed themselves at once of the permission to quit this scene of horrors, and made their way without delay to the subterranean passages. [10]

More example sentences with the word passages in them

You can run your car sixty miles an hour in exciting passages, everything will work into it. [4]
He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
Are there passages whose English is not poor and thin and commonplace, but is of a quality above that? [5]
Are there passages which burn with real fire--not punk, fox-fire, make believe? [5]
Her verbal output, when left undoctored by her clerks, is quite unmistakable It always exhibits the strongly distinctive features observable in the virgin passages from her pen already quoted by me: Desert vacancy, as regards thought. [5]
Radiating from this were five streets and passages like the spokes of a wheel, and from these now poured the defenders of the isle. [11]
The first place we visited was the Temple, a collection of buildings with intricate passages between them, some of the edifices reminding me of our college dormitories. [6]
I said it was expensive, unnecessary, and awkwardly constructed; there were no descriptive passages in it, no poetry, no sentiment no heroes, no plot, no pictures--not even wood-cuts. [5]
To make his victory the more secure, he stationed guards at the different fords and passages of the Jordan, with instructions to let none pass who could not say Shibboleth. [5]
With her hand upon the latch she stopped short again; for she realised that she did not know her way through the passages and corridors, and that she must make herself known to the servants of the palace to obtain guidance and exit. [11]
I have endeavored to verify such passages as my own library afforded me the means of doing. [3]
Then he went to see if the hall were empty, and led her at once to the treasurer's office through the various passages which connected it with the main buildings. [10]
I had learned to read Sanscrit and to translate easy passages in the chrestomathy, and devoted myself with special zeal to the study of the Latin grammar and prosody. [10]
He went up to Mrs. Horn for a moment's hail and farewell, and felt himself subtly detained by her through fugitive passages of conversation with half a dozen other people. [8]
We are ready to move again, though we are not really tired yet of the narrow passages of this old marble cave. [5]
It is hard to make a choice of the most beautiful passage in a book which is so gemmed with beautiful passages as the Bible; but it is certain that not many things within its lids may take rank above the exquisite story of Joseph. [5]
As they come through the dismal passages, some officers of the jail who are in waiting there, congratulate him, in their rough way, on his release. [12]
These are sublime things, and impressive; I never understood these passages before; please go on with the--with the--proofs. [5]
These are sublime things and impressive; I never understood these passages before; please go on with the--with the --proofs. [5]
If they do, they must have lungs and air passages, of course. [6]
It is true, there were some soft and merciful passages occasionally, but the tramp-tramp of the tourists only allowed one to get fitful glimpses of them, so to speak. [5]
About this time there was noticed an increased bustle in the passages, with a considerable opening and shutting of doors. [6]
I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne. [4]
The honorable Senator then read several passages from the remarks, as given above, which he had committed to writing, in order to refute such a charge as that of the Senator from New Jersey. [7]
In various mammals the uterus graduates from a double organ with two distinct orifices and two passages, as in the marsupials, into a single organ, which is in no way double except from having a slight internal fold, as in the higher apes and man. [1]
As already noticed, the Protestants are broken up into a long array of sects, a result of disputes about the meanings of texts, disputes made unavoidable by the absence of an infallible authority to submit doubtful passages to. [5]
It is not the multitude of remembered passages which settles the rank of a metrical composition as poetry. [6]
It is well that the treatise was never printed, yet there are passages in it worth preserving. [3]
Mr. Amory says that Prescott expressed himself very decidedly to the effect that an author who had written such descriptive passages as were to be found in Mr. Motley's published writings was not to be undervalued as a competitor by any one. [6]
There are passages that I have heard before, plaintive, full of some hidden meaning, as if they were gasping for words to interpret them. [6]
I only know that I descend to the sea there by broad interior flights of steps, which lead through galleries and corridors, and high, vaulted passages, whence extend apartments and caves far reaching into the solid rock. [4]
Mandeville said further, that as to poetry, he did not know much about that, and there was not much he cared to read except parts of Shakespeare and Homer, and passages of Milton. [4]
The letter of ten close pages from which I have quoted these passages is full of confidential information, and contains extracts from letters of leading statesmen. [6]
Some of The Teacups have listened outside once in a while, for the Tutor reads well, and his clear voice must be heard in the more emphatic passages, whether one is expressly listening or not. [6]
I may put some more passages into shape by and by. [6]
He instructed his solicitor at Montreal to procure passages for Mrs. Francis Armour and maid for Liverpool. [11]
But as all slept, a figure in the dress of a habitant moved through the passages of the house stealthily, yet with an assurance unusual in the thief or housebreaker. [11]
Are there in Sir Walter's novels passages done in good English --English which is neither slovenly or involved? [5]
There were some side passages near at hand. [5]
The didactic passages seem to me the best--far the best--in the work; very acute, very profound, are some of the views there given, and very clearly they are offered to the reader. [14]
As we shall see later, the nests of humming-birds, and the playing passages of bower-birds are tastefully ornamented with gaily- coloured objects; and this shews that they must receive some kind of pleasure from the sight of such things. [1]
I wish to say a few words in my own person relating to some passages in my own history, and more especially to some of the recent experiences through which I have been passing. [6]
The passages of safety between these ranges of reef are but narrow at high tide; at half-tide, when the currents are changing most, the violet field becomes the floor of a vast mortuary chapel for unknowing mariners. [11]
Presently the horsemen returned and placed themselves, ten and ten, as guards at each of the passages leading into the court. [10]
I expected to report grave conversations and light colloquial passages of arms among the members of the circle. [6]
When he had registered it, and she sang a few passages from it, what an exquisite delight awaited him! [10]
False facts, false reasoning, bad rhetoric, bad grammar, stale images, borrowed passages, if not borrowed sermons, are listened to without a word of comment or a look of disapprobation. [6]
And when, in reading aloud certain magnificent passages, he forgot his affectations, he managed to arouse cravings I thought to have deserted me forever. [9]
But the sagacious reader--and he need not be very sharp-sighted--will very certainly see something more than a mere historical significance in some of the passages which I shall cite for him to reflect upon. [6]
I want to read you some new passages from an interleaved copy of my book. [6]
In hotels they post certain rules in the rooms, but they always quote passages from the State law as authority for these requirements. [5]
But there are poetical passages which will give new pleasure. [6]
Sometimes I repeated poems of my own, sometimes she recited and acted passages from her best parts, amid continual jesting and laughter. [10]
Cows pastured there, penetrating through the leafy passages from one opening to another, and browsing among the bushes. [4]
Showed me the passages, and behold, his man's name is Wheeler! [5]
There are noble passages in it, but they are for the adept and not for the beginner. [6]
There are many passages in his writings which sound as if they were paraphrases from the elder poet. [6]
In the darkest passages his step was sure, and his hand fastened on latch or door-knob with perfect precision. [11]
Mr. Conway quotes passages from a letter of Emerson's which show that he had some hesitation in accepting the invitation, not unmingled with a wish to be heard by the English audiences favorably disposed towards him. [6]
Only he brings out the head and front of Mr. Motley's offending by italicizing three very brief passages from his conversation at this interview; not discreetly, as it seems to me, for they will not bear the strain that is put upon them. [6]
But there are other passages so entirely sane, and as it seems to me so just, that if any reader attributes them to me I shall not think myself wronged by the supposition. [6]
It was not only the show-rooms, the halls, passages, stairways, and galleries (both of pictures and of curios) that were thus enriched, but the boudoirs, retiring-rooms, and more private apartments as well. [4]
No greater proof of this can be needed than the effort to give princely entertainments in un-princely houses, where opposing streams of guests fight for progress in scant passages and on narrow stairways, and pack themselves in stifling rooms. [4]
But the extent of the Serapeum was so enormous that the mass of people was by no means densely packed on the roof, in the halls, and in the underground passages and rooms. [10]
On the walls of the chapel and in other quads and passages may be found tablets and inscriptions in memory of those who have died for England and the empire in by-gone wars. [9]
No doubt many of my hearers will recognize, in the following passages, arguments they may have heard brought forward with triumphant confidence in behalf of some doctrine not yet extinct. [3]
She is guilty of little awkwardnesses of expression in the Autobiography which a practiced pen would hardly allow to go uncorrected in even a hasty private letter, and could not dream of passing by uncorrected in passages intended for print. [5]
With the suppression of a few passages in your letters in regard to which I think you and I would not disagree, I should be glad of the publication. [7]
They were challenged nowhere, and the surgeon's servant, entering a side door of the palace, led her hastily through gloomy halls and passages where they met no one, though once in a dark corridor some one brushed against her. [11]
Brilliant passages could not save it; and it was plain enough that he must ripen into something better before the world would give him the reception which surely awaited him if he should find his true destination. [6]
The ceremonies do not begin until half-past nine; but ladies go between five and six o'clock in the morning, and when the passages are open they make a grand rush. [4]
Such liberty must not be abused, and I will content myself with a few passages in which Emerson has a part. [6]
There are strange nooks and corners and passages in the old building, and one place, a queer little "cubby-hole," has the appearance of having been a Roman Catholic chapel. [6]
He called to mind a long succession of loving passages between his father and himself, and dwelt fondly upon them, his unstinted tears attesting how deep and real was the grief that possessed his heart. [5]
Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time? [6]
A careful estimate makes the length of the passages of all the catacombs combined foot up nine hundred miles, and their graves number seven millions. [5]
Now, as they made their way through halls and passages where the foot of the uninitiated rarely intruded, she looked about her with more interest when the priest drew her attention to some particularly fine statue or picture, or some symbolical presentment. [10]
It is a long, low house, with very broad passages below and above, which give lightness and cheerfulness to the interior, and each of the four corners of the entrance hall has a fireplace. [4]
In books of law, theology, politics, medicine, science, travel, adventure, biography, philosophy, and fiction there may be passages that possess, or the whole contents may possess, that quality which comes within our meaning of literature. [4]
Crowds of the kind seen at cheap sales filled all the passages and alleys of the Bazaar. [2]
The champagne is kept in a maze of passages under ground, cut in the rock, to secure it an even temperature during the three-year term required to perfect it. [5]
She listened with joyful astonishment, and praised several passages which she thought beautiful. [10]
He had thumbed it well in past years, searching it for passages of violence and denunciation. [11]
In many passages it appeals to the heart, but how it will be spoiled in your churches! [10]
I was smuggled into a stall, going through long and narrow passages, between crowded rows of people, and found myself at last with a big book before me and a set of official personages around me, whose duties I did not clearly understand. [6]
There are passages in these Essays which remind one strongly of his brother, the Lecturer of twenty-five or thirty years later. [6]
Among the soldiers in the shops and passages some men were to be seen in gray coats, with closely shaven heads. [2]
Some passages contained in the original manuscript of the Address, and omitted in the delivery on account of its length, are restored in the text or incorporated with these Notes. [6]
There were difficulties in it, no doubt, and she skipped sundry unintelligible passages, but the second chapter captivated her attention. [10]
The poems "Homesick in Heaven" and the longer group of passages coming from the midnight reveries of the Young Astronomer have thoughts in them not so fully expressed elsewhere in my writings. [6]
I thought, but I will not be certain, that some of his arguments were addressed to Number Five rather than to the jury,--the more eloquent passages especially. [6]
In certain passages, I thought Thackeray used all his powers; their grand, serious force yielded a profound satisfaction. [14]
Many other things I noticed that, for my part, grieved and exasperated me as I read; but then, again, came passages so true, so deeply thought, so tenderly felt, one could not help forgiving and admiring. [14]
There are one hundred and sixty catacombs under Rome, each with its maze of narrow passages crossing and recrossing each other and each passage walled to the top with scooped graves its entire length. [5]
Sir Wendelin continued his way through the passages, chambers, halls, and courts. [10]
In that week Hilary's fear of meeting his son in the street or in the passages of the building had been equalled by a yearning to see him. [9]
When she had heard as much as she could stand,--for 'Cousin Pansie' explained passages to her,--explained, you know,--she sent for her lawyer, and that same somebody had to be a witness to a new will she had drawn up. [6]
As a, rule, he synopsized; but when a speech was especially brilliant, he short-handed it and gave me the best passages from it, written out. [5]
He would not have had it too close if he could, but there are various passages in which it is plain enough that he is telling his own story. [6]
But since they have been printed, and without a "by your leave," I will use one or two passages in them to show in what mood, under what pressure of impulse, under what mental and, maybe, spiritual hypnotism it was written. [11]

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