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Sentences starting with passive

Passive endurance is the hardest trial to persons of such a nature. [6]

Sentences ending with passive

Every man in whose veins flowed Egyptian blood listened to him attentively, took pleasure in his projects, and was quite ready to do his utmost to enhance the glories of this ceremonial, in which every one was to take part either active or passive. [10]
If it were, it might endure, --contentment being passive. [9]
He had not been five hundred yards from the house since she returned with Orlando after the night spent upon the prairie, save when he had been obliged to go in to Askatoon and had taken her with him, dumb and passive. [11]
She was passive. [11]

More example sentences with the word passive in them

I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
There are memories which are always passive and delightful. [11]
To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
The warm life went out of her, and she was to herself as a dimly conscious shadow that glided with passive acquiescence wherever it was led. [6]
Beauty Steele was under the eyes of another self, and neither disdain, nor contempt, nor the passive stare, were available. [11]
Now I knew that if I did not carry the matter against him I should be killed out of hand, and Heaven knows I was not used to play a passive part. [9]
Had Lali been subservient simply, an entirely passive, unintelligent creature, she would probably have tyrannised over her in a soft, persistent fashion, and despised her generally. [11]
There was a sinister droop to the eyelids, a suggestion of cruelty about the mouth; but there was more of good-nature and passive strength than either in the general expression. [11]
It was a risk to take, but he could be carried on a litter by careful men, and remain wholly passive during the removal. [6]
It was a quick look, and the interest she showed was of a passive kind. [11]
He led her passive, obedient, through the press to the side street, and then he paused and looked into her burning face. [9]
His face was passive, but his eyes were burning. [11]
The widow was passive, and when Martina had gladly consented to accept the invitation of her "delivering angel," the chariot carried them to Susannah's house. [10]
A mother may passionately love her sleeping and passive infant, but she can hardly at such times be said to feel sympathy for it. [1]
But Pierre was only passive outwardly. [11]
And this visionary Napoleon had come into the little man's quiet, cultured, passive life, and had transformed him, filled him with adventure and patriotism. [11]
Old Aleck was meanwhile dilating upon his theme before a passive listener. [11]
The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. [6]
This Mind with its vitality--a life not of time but of eternity--could stir or remain passive as it listed; it included a Plurality, while the One was Unity, and forever indivisible. [10]
She was in her night-gown, and she stood still, as though listening; yet, as Charley looked closer, he realised that it was an unconscious, passive listening, and that she did not know he was there. [11]
She shrank, but her hands lay passive in his. [11]
He waited opportunity, he arranged all details carefully, he secured the passive agents of his purpose; and when the right day came he acted. [11]
She seemed to have lived for centuries, to have exhausted the gamut of suffering which, save for that one wild outburst, had been the fruit of commonplace, passive, sordid tragedy that knows no touch of fire.... [9]
She pressed his hand, her eyes full of tears, passed inside the room, going softly to a shadowed corner, and sat watching the passive figure on the bed. [11]
Yet he spoke French and English in a slow, passive, involuntary way. [11]
But he met firmly the passive, inquisitorial eyes of the healer of the plague, and he turned, dropped another bar across the door, and bade the intruder to depart. [11]
She was amused at his attentions then; she had little to occupy her, and she felt herself superior to any man's emotions: not such as this young Seigneur could win her away from her passive but certain fealty. [11]
Between the brother and sister he remained in this posture, quite unresisting and passive, until Mr Swiveller returned, with a police constable at his heels. [12]
She stepped forward, and pressed the passive hand that lay upon the coverlet. [12]
His passive face and large melancholy eyes were wonderfully beautiful, and inspired even his mother with a feeling of awe and respect. [10]
Are you still and always as cold, as passive as you were then when you belonged half to life and half to death? [10]
Why stand passive and allow themselves to be trodden down by minority? [7]
But there is a little raising of the eyebrow, now and then, in the most passive acceptance,--if of an intellectual turn. [6]

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