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Sentences starting with passing

Passing by such words as are poisonous, I can swallow most others, and chew such as I cannot swallow. [6]
Passing Theddlethorpe, you went up to Faddo's house, and, looking through the window, you saw Faddo, not dead, but being cared for by his wife. [11]
Passing rapidly through the corridors, I told a servant of the household what had occurred, bade him send for Bigot, and then made for my own safety. [11]
Passing along the street, he had realised that he had no moral claim upon anything or anybody within these precincts of his past life. [11]
Passing a mirror she glanced into it. [2]
Passing through the Rue des Sablons, she came to the shore. [11]
Passing through the Rue d'Egypte this day he met Dormy Jamais. [11]
Passing into the President's office, I noticed, to my surprise, Hackett sitting in the anteroom as if waiting for an audience. [5]
Passing over such parts of the article as have neither fact nor argument in them, I come to the question asked by Adams whether any person ever saw the assignment in his possession. [7]
Passing my eye over them, an old dark quarto attracted my attention. [6]

Sentences ending with passing

I must tell you all now, out of the depth of this trouble through which I am passing. [6]
I came soon to the St. John's Gate, for I had the countersign from Gabord, and, dressed as I was, I had no difficulty in passing. [11]
A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing. [2]
I was at the Government prison, (with Captain Fish and another whaleship-skipper, Captain Phillips,) and got so interested in its examination that I did not notice how quickly the time was passing. [5]
The horses showered the fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh--beside them sounded quick ringing bells and they caught confused glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troyka they were passing. [2]
They have passed that prison wall which others have long declared impassable; and who that has not shall dare to weigh opinions with them as to the mode of passing? [7]
He was a stern man, but not a cruel one, so he permitted his "moles" to lie down on the sand, for the troops would doubtless be a long time in passing. [10]
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]
He represented how quickly the harbour could be reached from his island, that fish were brought thence from it daily, and he would therefore always have news of what was passing. [10]
She must go out, she must see and hear what was passing. [10]

Short sentences using passing

Under way, passing the Battery. [5]
The servant was passing through. [11]
It doth seem passing strange. [5]
Passing the village of Chanaz. [5]
Passing Isle de Bourbon. [5]
Passing Quarantine Hulk. [5]
Passing principal fort. [5]

Sentences containing passing two or more times

Our strife pertains to ourselves--to the passing generations of men --and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. [7]
Lee is now passing the Potomac faster than the forces you mention are passing Carlisle. [7]
At any time, on any day, in any part of America, you can confer a happiness upon any passing stranger by calling his attention to any other passing stranger and saying: "Do you see that gentleman going along there? [5]
She wondered dully at her sitting there, hands folded listlessly, with a kind of numb deadness to the passing of time and the passing of her riches. [13]

More example sentences with the word passing in them

We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me.... "I am perishing already--I am failing--I am passing away. [5]
I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
And even the year before, a bill for Nebraska itself was within an ace of passing without the repealing clause, and this in the hands of the same men who are now the champions of repeal. [7]
And so matters would have remained, and in a few weeks, after passing the examination, I should have returned to my happy mother, had not a perverse Fate willed otherwise. [10]
There was nothing worthy of special note in the trip to Frederick, except our passing a squad of Rebel prisoners, whom I missed seeing, as they flashed by, but who were said to be a most forlorn-looking crowd of scarecrows. [6]
And it is worthy of passing mention, in regard to his later productions, that his admirable sense of literary proportion, which is wanting in many good writers, characterized his work to the end. [4]
There are elaborate works for reducing the blue rock and passing it through one process after another until every diamond it contains has been hunted down and secured. [5]
We can't be with you always; we are passing away, and then--well, everything will have to stop, I reckon. [5]
Beautiful, wild, invested with the mystery which belongs to untrodden spaces, and with enough of terror to give it dignity, it had yet closer relations with the town over which it brooded than the passing stranger knew of. [6]
Don Luis Quijada, with the haughty precision of the Castilian grandee, was passing through the humble folk around him and advancing directly toward her. [10]
These victims, together with the captains and owners, presently ceased to laugh altogether, and began to rage about the revenge they would take when the passing business 'spurt' was over. [5]
They passed who with Homer Poured out the wine at the feet of their idols: Passing, what found they? [11]
If then he wished to set up business for himself, he must get permission, after passing an examination. [4]
With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
The Mexican troops will evacuate the territory of Texas, passing to the other side of the Rio Grande Del Norte. [7]
Among the courtiers whom she had known so well in Ratisbon not one vouchsafed her anything more than a passing greeting; and the Queen of Hungary, to whom she would gladly have poured out her heart, had refused her repeated entreaties for an audience. [10]
And now the whole glittering show of charity had vanished for the time, and Father Damon--The little doctor stopped, consulted a memorandum in her hand-bag, looked up at the tenement-house she was passing, and then began to climb its rickety stairway. [4]
And passing people who looked after him with curiosity, he entered the porch of the Emperor's house. [2]
Journeying towards the White Mountains, we concluded that a line passing through Bellows Falls, and bending a little south on either side, would mark northward the region of perpetual pie. [4]
I could see what was passing, but could hear distinctly only the voices of the men. [10]
She well knew what was passing in the father's mind, for the day before he had brought all sorts of artist's materials, and told her to arrange the little gable-room, with the large window facing towards the north, and put the easel and colors there. [10]
The high-priest understood what was passing in Septah's mind. [10]
The smith understood what was passing in his mind, and said: "It is hard for you to go. [10]
The invalid guessed what was passing in his little daughter's mind, and said, encouragingly: "Ask the hen. [10]
Fran Lerch perceived what was passing in her mind, and instilled courage until she had finished her work and held up the mirror before Barbara. [10]
You cannot think what a delight I feel in passing through its galleries, filled with old parchment-bound books. [4]
The law they were passing was not about States, and was not making provisions for States. [7]
But when they were passing the prison she became frightened. [10]
Pa and I were passing the Court House, with Clarence, when she was put up for sale. [9]
The cavalry singers were passing close by: Ah lost, quite lost... is my head so keen, Living in a foreign land. [2]
When the prisoners were passing Bent-Anat's tent, she was sitting within with Nefert, and talking, as had become habitual in the hours of dusk, of her father, of Mena, Rameri, and Pentaur. [10]
Of course we went to see the venerable relic of the ancient glory of Venice, with its pavements worn and broken by the passing feet of a thousand years of plebeians and patricians--The Cathedral of St. Mark. [5]
Thou'lt soon be well: 'tis but a passing fantasy. [5]
I said likely we wouldn't, because I had heard say there warn't but about a dozen houses there, and if they didn't happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a town? [5]
In the clouds we were passing over Clingman, Gibbs, and Holdback. [4]
Fifty years ago we passed through, in all essentials, what France has been passing through during the past two or three years, in the matter of periodical frights, horrors, and shudderings. [5]
On my right was the St. Lawrence swelling on its course, hundreds of feet beneath, little boats passing hither and thither on its flood. [11]
He said he was sorry to disturb me, but as he was passing he noticed that I needed some lightning-rods. [5]
While the marshal was passing, the prisoners had huddled together in a crowd, and Pierre saw Karataev whom he had not yet seen that morning. [2]
Stephanus saw what was passing in their minds. [10]
Moor felt what was passing in the ruler's mind. [10]
Nebsecht divined what was passing in the mind of his friend. [10]
He felt what was passing in the awakening artist-soul, for a similar incident had happened to himself, when studying with his old master, Schorel. [10]
Barbara perceived what was passing in his thoughts, and also noticed how her dress had become disarranged during her work. [10]
Faith read what was passing in his mind. [11]
Barbara understood what was passing in his mind, and whispered compassionately to the doctor and her sister-in-law: "All his fair money to help the young lady. [10]
Without suspecting what was passing in her mind, Hosea drew nearer. [10]
Phoebicius saw what was passing in her mind, and he went on, "You may snort proudly now; but an hour will come when you will crawl up to me like your lame dog, and pray for mercy. [10]
Cleopatra noticed what was passing in her brother's mind, and in order to interrupt his further speech and to divert his mind to fresh thoughts, she said cheerfully: "Let us then give up the procession, and think of some other mode of celebrating your birthday. [10]
Just as he was passing in front of Demosthenes and Thucydides' drug store, he was observing casually to a gentleman, who, our informant thinks, is a fortune-teller, that the Ides of March were come. [5]
Now, as Becky was passing by the desk, which stood near the door, she noticed that the key was in the lock! [5]
I wondered what was passing behind his sad face, and what distant scene his vacant eye was dreaming of. [5]
Now the raft was passing before the distant town. [5]
Just as I was passing a place where a kind of a cowpath crossed the crick, here comes a couple of men tearing up the path as tight as they could foot it. [5]
In passing, it was not just what I wanted to say. [9]
He knew it was Napoleon--his hero--but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over it. [2]
Mr. Clarence Colfax was likewise on the boat, and passing Stephen on the guards, bowed distantly. [9]
Its first brick was laid and its first house built by a passing convict. [5]
His own heart was heavy enough, but he knew his companion's warm devotion to the Queen; so, passing his arm around his shoulder, he entreated him to maintain that peace of soul and mind which he had so often admired. [10]
Love, she said, was a woman's first necessity: love being forfeited; there was but one thing left that could give a passing zest to a wasted life, and that was fame, admiration, the applause of the multitude. [5]
Then, passing through veil after veil of mystery, it told of a grand Seigneur whose boat was overturned in a whirlpool, and was saved by a little brown diver. [11]
In passing Prince Vasili seized Pierre's hand and said to Anna Pavlovna: "Educate this bear for me! [2]
Here the author used to sit for hours, weaving histories out of the casual incidents passing under his eye, and the occupations of the busy mortals below. [4]
He paced impatiently up and clown, waiting till these people should have disappeared, and thus passing again and again under the light of the torches that were stuck up by the gate. [10]
So they came unto Carlion, whereof his knights were passing glad. [5]
Joe was passing under a fictitious name, and old Wakeman didn't suspect that he was a parson; so he gave his profanity full swing, and he was a master of that great art. [5]
In that instant, unaccountably, her heart went out to the old man; and something of what he had seen, and something of what was even now passing within him, came to her intuitively. [9]
I would always treat any given young person passing through the meteoric showers which rain down on the brief period of adolescence with great tenderness. [6]
He was a traveler, passing through; and he spoke to her gently, and, seeing nobody but me there to hear, said he was sorry for her. [5]
We quitted the train at Oos, and walked the entire remaining distance to Baden-Baden, with the exception of a lift of less than an hour which we got on a passing wagon, the weather being exhaustingly warm. [5]
Tabus willingly submitted to this act of violence, and passing her thin left arm around her son's bull neck with her free hand, patted his bearded cheeks, wrinkled brow, and bushy, almost white hair. [10]
This brings us to the reign of Elizabeth, after passing through a period of nearly five hundred years of England's history--492 to be exact. [5]
My eyes shifted to the lights of the 'Porcupine' in the distance, and from them again to the figures passing and repassing me on the deck. [11]
He drew himself to the gratings, grasping them with his hands, and looking out through them, sat waiting till the officer was passing once more, and then said: "Sweetness, you'd better mind your eye, now, because you beats have killed this cuss. [5]
It is idle to speculate on the phenomenon taking place within her, and it may merely be remarked in passing that she possessed a quality which, in a man, leads to a career and fame. [9]
It is fair to say of Scotty, however, in passing, that he had a warm heart, and a strong love for his friends, and never entered into a quarrel when he could reasonably keep out of it. [5]
Before passing on to other subjects, I must devote a few words to the remodelling of the school and its new head. [10]
It is fair to mention in passing that other young men were in love with Cynthia at this time, notably Eben Hatch--history repeating itself. [9]
I ran out to meet him, and he threw his arms about me on the street so that those who were passing smiled, for all knew the captain. [9]
In his letter to me of March 12, 1867, just cited, Mr. Motley writes:-- "My two concluding volumes of the United Netherlands are passing rapidly through the press. [6]
Nature, which, left to itself, is a little ragged, not to say monotonous and tiresome, is discovered to be a valuable ally for aid in passing the time when art is able to make portions of it exclusive. [4]
D.W.] The blow to her father was terrible, but heavy as it was, one may perhaps understand that her passing in that swift, painless way must have afforded him a measure of relief. [5]
She waked suddenly to hear footsteps passing her door. [11]
Yet he seems to have been mainly intent upon society and the amusements of the passing hour, and, without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity, he yielded to the temptations of indolence, and settled into the unpromising position of a "man about town. [4]
How was he to explain that these degrees had been so gradual that his conscience had had but a passing wrench here and there? [9]
He was waiting to collect transportation before turning his passing spirit to less serious affairs. [5]
If you happened to be passing the windows, certain more or less intelligible sounds might separate themselves from the bedlam. [9]
And you had to be always changing hands, and passing your spear over to the other foot, it got so irksome for one hand to hold it long at a time. [5]
After passing the time of day, as was his custom, the patient freely discussed the motives which had led him to refuse any more of Victoria's fruit. [9]
Something was passing through his mind. [11]
I was passing through a clump of cedar when I saw them making towards the trees skirting the river. [11]
It might be three feet deep, it might be a hundred--there was no passing it at any rate. [5]
There they are, those false images that agitated, enraptured, and tormented me," said he to himself, passing in review the principal pictures of the magic lantern of life and regarding them now in the cold white daylight of his clear perception of death. [2]
Being skeptical about this, he asked a drayman who was passing how far it was to the Plaza. [7]
Quijada had said this to himself, and perceived plainly enough what was passing in the young knight's thoughts. [10]
All news reached this meeting-place first, and he found a large number of Macedonian citizens who, like himself, wished to discuss passing events in these decisive hours. [10]
Suddenly realizing that they were standing in the light, that people were passing to and fro over the end of the bridge, she drew away from him once more, this time more gently. [9]

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