It was a mystery, a portent, a premonition such as overtakes a man sometimes in the dark passageways of life.

The lurks in dark passageways and steals upon his victim.

" I guess they thought I was crazy, appearing from up in the mountains like that and shouting about pits and passageways and Rebels' Cave.

In this newly drifted snow, passageways were dug connecting directly with the dog huts.

This barbarous custom, together with the netting of ducks in narrow passageways, has, fortunately, long been a thing of the past.

The jeweler made a sign to the young man, and they left the street to pick their way through a labyrinth of paths and passageways among various houses, at times leaping upon stones to avoid the mudholes or stepping aside from the sidewalks that were badly constructed and still more badly tended.

I followed her slowly through rooms and passageways till she reached her own chamber.

When the fire ship was fully fitted out in this manner, they prepared to enter the passageway into the lake.

It was growing dark when Captain Morgan found the three ships riding at anchor in the middle of the passageway into the lake, and fearing to attack in the darkness, he ordered his vessels to come to anchor, resolved that if the Spanish attacked he would fight them from that position.

She scanned each face as it emerged from the dim passageway, and her own grew a bit anxious as the boys passed.

There were few passengers, and those who booked here were dismayed at the condition of the passageways, the cabins, and the decks.

" They took leave of each other in the corridor with the noisy, nonchalant joy of passion, indifferent to the chamber-maids who were walking to and fro at the other end of the passageway.

After wandering through the windings of the Grecian Archipelago, they passed the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, stirring the two narrow passageways with the violence of their invisible gallopade and making a turn at the bowl of the Black Sea, swimming back, decimated but impetuous, to the depths of the Mediterranean.

Ulysses admired the odd forms of their winding passageways.

Beyond her salon there was an endless number of rooms, somewhat dismantled and without furniture, a labyrinth of partitioned walls and passageways, in which the captain was always getting lost, and having to appeal to Freya for aid; all the doors of the stair-landings that appeared unrelated to the green screen of the office were so many other exits from the same dwelling.

In this European conglomerate were dark gaps, open passageways, the mouths of sloping streets climbing to the hillock above, crossing the Grecian, Mohammedan and Jewish quarters until they reached a table-land covered with lofty edifices between dark points of cypress.

The narrow passageways of the right bank attracted Ferragut.

Sometimes a torpedo destroyer entering the old harbor could be seen slipping by the mouth of one of these passageways as shadowy as though passing before the glass of a telescope.

The fugitive, surrounded in a labyrinth of passageways, colliding with enemies at every turn, came running out through the opposite end and continued his race the whole length of the wharf.

But when the time came for the formal visit to those closed rooms, of which the locked doors were like veils in a temple, Spinrobin declares it made him think of some solemn procession down ancient passageways of crypt or pyramid to the hidden places where inscrutable secrets lay.

Looking down on the city of Dublin from the tower of St. Patrick's cathedral, one can see roofs so smashed in that they look as if some giant had walked over them; great areas so packed with buildings that there are only darts of passageways for light and air.

" We went through many dark passageways and winding stairs to the audience hall.

There ought to be some lovely rambling passageways, and steps up and steps down, and rooms where you don't expect them, and a splendid atticand perhaps a secret staircase.

Through the corridors and passageways of the vast establishment went Banker.

These infernal passageways are all alike, to me.