Et quand tu repasses par ces rivages fais-moi signe. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The earth was but a day old, having been new the night before at twelve; and two days must elapse before its crescent, freed from the solar rays, would serve as a clock to the Selenites, as in its rotary movement each of its points after twenty-four hours repasses the same lunar meridian. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The evil man passes and repasses this Cape with no concern, for he has already been tested. ❋ Michener, James (1959)
As he passes and repasses me, I try to read his countenance. ❋ Various (N/A)
There passes and repasses her, now contemplating her with a curious stare, then muttering inaudibly, a man of portly figure, in mask and cowl. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Decomposition is actually a process of repeated digestions as organic matter passes and repasses through the intestinal tracts of soil animals numerous times or is attacked by the digestive enzymes secreted by microorganisms. ❋ Steve Solomon (N/A)
Ilian ranks and Turnus 'columns, suddenly shrinking to the shape of a small bird that often sits late by night on tombs or ruinous roofs, and vexes the darkness with her cry, in such change of likeness the monster shrilly passes and repasses before Turnus' face, and her wings beat restlessly on his shield. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
If Orpheus could call up his wife's ghost in the strength of his Thracian lyre and the music of the strings, -- if Pollux redeemed his brother by exchange of death, and passes and repasses so often, -- why make mention of great Theseus, why of ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
She went out, and in a few moments was part of the crowd which passes and repasses nightly from the Rotunda up the broad pathways of ❋ James Stephens (1916)
[A station POLICEMAN, very square and uniformed, passes and repasses.] ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
As he passes and repasses between the object of his perception and his representation of it, there is a continuous gain both to his vision and to his technique. ❋ Edmond Holmes (1893)
Martha, full of business passes and repasses through the hall: Mary notices her not. ❋ 1567-1622 (1884)
Writing in the year 1816, he says: "It has been calculated that, previous to the erection of steamboats, not more than fifty persons passed and repassed from Glasgow to Greenock in one day, whereas it is now supposed that there are from four to five hundred passes and repasses in the same period." ❋ James Wilson Hyde (1879)
In others we feel as if borne into the heart of a whirlwind, a strange madness; in the midst of the mystic confusion, an abrupt melody passes and repasses, panting and palpitating, like the throbbing of a heart faint with longing, gasping in despair, breaking in anguish, dying of hopeless, yet indignant love. ❋ Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 (1877)
Bonnets and hats are tried on, and she passes and repasses before the glass to study the jauntiness or attractiveness of different styles. ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)
Every evening, she passes and repasses over it, strengthening it with fresh threads. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
At a moment of rest, after a meal, the Glow-worm passes and repasses the said brush over his head, back, sides and hinder-parts, a performance made possible by the flexibility of his spine. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
