20 Metaphors for passing

I hauled it up mighty quick, for the old bull seemed to be suspicions that something was goin' on that might have something to do with his futer happiness, and when he got sight of it, the pass he made was a thing to stand out of the way of.

The danger consisted not only in having to pass through all the places where the Austrian troops were stationed; General Geppert's pass was a sufficient protection against any thing that might threaten them from this quarter.

The pass is a twenty-mile gorge cut through mountains 7,000 feet high, but the Greeks turned the Bulgarian positions by marching across the mountains, and it was near Semitli, five miles north of the pass, that the Bulgarians offered their last serious resistance.

" Certainly the pass of La Raya, long the gateway from the Titicaca Basin to the important cities and towns of the Urubamba Basin, was the key to the situation.

Moreover, the pass of the Little St. Bernard, while not the lowest of all the natural passes of the Alps, is by far the easiest; although no artificial road was constructed there, an Austrian corps with artillery crossed the Alps by that route in 1815.

The pass was a narrow, open valley, walled in by steep and lofty mountains.

The pass at Angostura, or "the narrows," is the natural gateway between the Oropesa Basin and the Cuzco Basin.

Certainly both sides should strive their hardest to gain the day; but let boys especially remember, in an uphill game, when scoring goes against them, that it is to the honour of the slaughtered Spartans and not of the victorious Persians that the pass of Thermopylae has become a household word.

The Taiya Pass is not a pass at all, but a climb right over the mountains.

Pass we here what part of the night is still left, for great is my fatigue.' "Yudhishthira answered, 'O Dhananjaya of Bharata's race, do thou take up Panchali and carry her.

To the Third Internationale the obscure passes of Afghanistan are a near frontier.

The passes are steep and windy ridges, though not the highest.

The pass had now become a flaming vortex which bathed him in its far-spreading radiance.

XIX LOOKING OVER PRECIPICES To Mary Ewold the pass was a dividing line between two appeals.

The pass desired was the Guadaloupe Cañon, used as a wagon road by General Cook in his march from New Mexico to California in 1846, and strange to say, not subsequently occupied as a railroad pass.

The Khyber Pass has been the great and only route for ages whether for war or commerce.

The pass which marked the entrance to the Field of Obsolescence was barely visible ten miles away just a little east of north.

The passing of each day became a painful task to him.

Again the passing of the yellow ribbons to the girls and the presenting of the yellow-tied package to the guest of honor were the signals for leaving to go to the next house.

This passing of the gold-seekers was not, however, a blessing without drawbacks.

20 Metaphors for  passing