577 Verbs to Use for the Word passage

Father determined to join them, and took passage on a steamboat which was going up the river.

Here the water was very shallow, the main portion of the stream finding a passage close to the opposite shore.

The N.E.D. quotes this passage with a reference to the adjective 'flaberkin' = puffed out, puffy, and a suggestion that it is akin to the substantive 'flab' = something thick, broad, fat.

In response to the request of Mr. Walters, he read from his notebook the final passage in the opening address delivered by the prisoner at that trial as defending Counsel: "'It is my duty to convince you that my client is not guilty, or, in other words, to convince you that the murder was committed before he reached the house.

The British fleet, powerful though it was, would have been no match for the great guns of the German fortress, even had the battleships been able to force a passage of the mine fields; and this latter feat would have been a wonderful one in itself, could it be accomplished.

He was also appointed commissioner for executing the terms of any treaty that might be made; and his instructions contained two passages which bore eloquent witness to the universal confidence reposed in him.

It will be attached to small bits of rock, and these should be supported by or laid upon other pieces of stone, so raised as to secure a free passage for the water about them, and so afford places of retreat for the animals.

By these, say they, Moses slew the Egyptians; by these Israel was preserved from the destroying angel of the wilderness; by these Elijah separated the waters of the river, to open a passage for himself and Elisha, and by these it has been as daringly and impudently asserted, that our blessed Saviour, the eternal Son of God, cast out evil spirits.

She returned the pressure of my hand; her eyes were tearless, and her voice did not even waver, but the thought of poor Annie going into the valley unassured by any loving word gave free passage to my tears.

I could cite many other passages to convince you that it deserved milder usage.

A fence obstructed further passage.

Two other companies were drawn up in echelons farther on, at short distances, occupying the street, but leaving a free passage.

(e) Masters were cautioned to hug the coast, as far as navigational facilities admitted, when making coastal passages.

I think I can borrow money enough in Wall street to pay the passage of a moderate number of men to Charleston, but they mustn't on any account be CHASE men.

" The whole scene suddenly vanished in total darkness; only again in one direction a gleam of light appeared, and guided us to a portal through which we entered another long and narrow passage, terminating in a second vestibule before a door of emerald crystal, brilliantly illuminated by a light within.

At the moment of embarking, a whale barred their passage.

He it was who, in admiration, repeated the passage to Johnson which provoked the parody.

As you have scrunched against the shelf not to block the passage, but with your head thrown back to see the titles up above, you have noticed at the corner of your eyeunless it was one of your blinder moments when you were fixed wholly on the shelfa man in a slightly faded overcoat of mixed black and white, a man just past the nimbleness of youth, whose head is plucked of its full commodity of hair.

I hitherto believ'd my Flame was guided By perfect Reason: so we often find Vessels conducted by a peaceful Wind, And meet no opposition in their way, Cut a safe passage through the flattering Sea:

It had not been expected either by friend or foe that Hasdrubal would effect his passage of the Alps so early in the year as actually occurred.

But for us its golden grains trickled out apace and left the glass empty before we had begun to mark their passage.

"'Well,' says the applicant, 'I'll work my passage as a deck hand, asking only a small portion of such spoils as we may pick up.

"Perhaps you'll point out the passage to me, Rolfe.

These sects were founded because in the eighteenth century an antipode of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young discovered this passage in Matthew xix, 12.

We are not Bible commentators, child, you cannot expect us to explain all the difficult passages.

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