Which preposition to use with passport
Edwin Pugh says of a child of the slums who was passionately fond of reading cheap literature:"It was by means of this penny passport to Heaven that she escaped from the Hell of her surroundings.
At dawn, two days later, I slipped into Jaffa by way of the sand-dunes and went to the house of a friend whom I could trust to help me in every possible way, and begged him to find me a passport for a neutral.
I sought out the writer of the first message, who entirely concurred with me in the propriety of the step I was about to take; only recommending me to apply personally for a passport from the Camptâ, such as would override any attempt to detain me even by legal warrant.
Sight of it had changed the Chief of Police from a burly bully into a whining coward, for he saw that he had torn up the passport of a guest of the Czar, and the consequence was most serious if I complained.
And I turned and went out of the little wooden office, replacing my passport in my pocket-book.
Mr. Harrison, in desperation, went to the office, and after some delay, received the passports with a visè, but not, as we afterwards discovered, the necessary one.
By giving up our passports at the door, we received permission to enter; the officer called a guide to take us around the battlements.
The rich Makaraig, in view of the catastrophe, took good care not to expose himself, and having secured a passport by means of money set out in haste for Europe.
These fragments of smudged prints were his passport into a new and delightful world; they were, it might be said, the name of his destination in the great republic of letters, and yet he hesitated to look at them.
She provided Juanita with that dress which is a passport through any quarter of a town, across any frontier; to any battlefield.
The Marquis de C entered the town yesterday, and at the gate presented his passport as usual; the guard looked at the passport, and in a high tone demanded his name, whence he came, and where he was going.
The Bulgarian minister at Nish, the Serbian capital, received his passports on October 8, and on the same day the Bulgarian minister at Paris was handed his passports.
"I have done every thing that depends on me to obtain your passports without success, and I still advise you to come to Paris and solicit them in person.
Amy's only anxiety now arose from the uncertainty of her father's fate; for she could gain no further intelligence of him than that he had fled the kingdom, having obtained a passport under a feigned name.
"He has a passport beyond thy power to question.
They ask for passports along all the line, beginning at the terminus.
When he came back, it was a Sunday; on which day such a great work could not possibly be done, and so I did not obtain my passport until the sixth day.
References, indeed, are often handed around like passports among Russian revolutionists.
Come, come, my learned doctor, patients can get to the other world without bleeding and warm water; and I question whether the most deadly of us has ever signed more passports than yourself.