Passed Sentence Examples

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  • The holiday weekend passed pleasantly.

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  • The years passed and almost nothing changed.

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  • The morning passed in a pleasant way and soon it was time to leave.

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  • His mother was very ill and she recently passed away.

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  • I passed the phone to Molly who'd just arrived.

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  • A full week passed before we had our answer.

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  • Dad had passed on his curly blond hair to Nick and Lisa.

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  • She gripped the armrest as he passed two cars at a time.

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  • Not even a year had passed since the stabbing, but he had been doing well.

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  • As she passed a neighbor boy, he waved at her, his two missing front teeth displayed in a sweet smile.

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  • A few moments passed before he told me to go ahead.

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  • Three weeks passed in this way.

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  • Lisa sat down and accepted the bowl full of scrambled eggs Sarah passed to her.

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  • I passed out again but gradually, the pain in my left side and my throat brought me to a state of half-wakefulness.

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  • As April slipped into May and the last threat of frost passed, she began planting them in the garden.

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  • I passed the golf course, as green as an Irish post card and envied the couple strolling down the fairway.

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  • A motor home passed by, with California plates, only the open road of the entire country ahead of them.

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  • As they watched, three Indians rode around a bend in the gully and passed below them.

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  • If he had passed Dulce over, it was because she wasn't what he wanted.

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  • Nearly two weeks had passed since the killing.

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  • If she had asked about the building when we passed it, I might have figured she had never seen it, but she pretended she didn't notice.

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  • I reached for the door, but my hand passed through it.

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  • I was familiar with the story of Troy before I read it in the original, and consequently I had little difficulty in making the Greek words surrender their treasures after I had passed the borderland of grammar.

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  • While this was taking place in Petersburg the French had already passed Smolensk and were drawing nearer and nearer to Moscow.

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  • God has sent you! exclaimed deeply moved voices as Rostov passed through the anteroom.

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  • Less than a week later she passed another milestone.

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  • His mouth twisted into what might have passed for a smile.

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  • After weeks of tense waiting to see if she passed, she finally reached her goal.

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  • We almost passed up the case, thinking it was yet another teenager leaving home on her own.

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  • A wave of guilt passed over me like fog on a beach party; guilt like a pants-down lover when the husband comes home.

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  • Carmen rushed to him, but found that he was either asleep or passed out.

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  • Quinn was required to pick up extra classes when an older professor passed away suddenly.

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  • The drinks were passed out and they sat.

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  • I passed out for a few minutes, I guess, and then I thought I was alone so I started crawling toward the door.

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  • Another agonizing hour passed before a doctor finally came out to talk to them.

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  • Ryland and Donnie passed me on the way to Grand Junction.

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  • Dean stuck his head in the room as he passed.

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  • He hated all this emotional nonsense, and had it been anyone but Sarah, he would have made a hasty retreat and stayed away until the waterworks passed.

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  • He lay passed out on the bed, two empty bottles on the nightstand and one on the floor.

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  • They rejoined the group as Sarah passed out dessert and coffee.

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  • When the island passed to Savoy, in 1720, the mines passed to the state.

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  • It thence passed farther north to the Burdekin, ascending to the source of that river, and turned westward across a table-land, from which there was an easy descent to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

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  • Having crossed a table-land of sandstone which divides these streams from those running to the western shores of Arnheim Land, Mr Stuart, in the month of July, passed down what is called the Adelaide river of north Australia.

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  • He passed the Reynolds range and Lake Amadeus in that direction, but was compelled to turn south, where he found a tract of well-watered grassy land.

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  • Of the several attempts to cross Western Australia, even Major Warburton's expedition, the most successful, had failed in the important particular of determining the nature of the country through which it passed.

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  • Agriculture everywhere expanded, the mining industry revived, and, if it had not been for the low prices of staple products, the visible effects of the crisis would have passed away within a very few years.

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  • During the year 1896 Enabling Acts were passed by New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia, and delegates were elected by popular vote in all the colonies named except Western Australia, where the delegates were chosen by parliament.

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  • The Enabling Bill passed the various stages in the parliament of that colony, and the question was then adopted by referendum.

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  • This report led to the passing of a number of acts which, proving ineffectual, were followed by the Factories and Shops Act of 1896, passed by the ministry of Mr (afterwards Sir Alexander) Peacock.

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  • A similar system was introduced into South Australia by an act passed in 1900 amending the Factory Act of 1894, which was the first legislation of the sort passed in that state.

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  • The model followed in these two states was not Victoria but New Zealand, where an Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act was passed in 1894.

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  • In the years 1900 and 1902 acts were passed in Western Australia still more closely modelled on the New Zealand act than was the above-mentioned statute in New South Wales.

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  • It was the same question that formed the chief subject of debate over the Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Act, which, after causing the defeat of more than one ministry, passed through the Commonwealth parliament in 1904.

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  • By the Federal Act, passed in the session of 1908, a pension of ten shillings a week was granted to persons of either sex over sixty-five years of age, or to persons over sixty who are incapacitated from earning a living.

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  • But in July 1908 a Surplus Revenue Act was passed which was based on a different interpretation of the constitution.

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  • Later on it came into the possession of Naples, but passed into Roman hands in 326, when Naples herself lost her independence.

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  • Finally in 924 Lorraine passed in the reign of Henry the Fowler under German (East Frankish) overlordship. Henry's son, Otto the Great, owing to the disordered state of the country, placed it in 953 in the hands of his able brother, Bruno, archbishop of Cologne, for pacification.

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  • His Burgundian lands passed without opposition to his son Charles, then six years of age.

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  • The struggle, however, with the Protestant princes of Germany not only led to continual demands of Charles for men and money from his Netherland dominions, but to his determination to prevent the spread of Protestant opinions; and a series of edicts was passed, the most severe of which (that of 1550) was carried out with extreme rigour.

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  • There were no banks in the state until 1806, when a state bank (controlled by the state) was established which was finally closed up in 1845, although as early as 1812 a law was passed to close it.

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  • The first private state bank was opened in 1817; an act of 1831 provided for a safety fund guaranteeing bank circulations and derived from a 41% tax on capital stock and a 1 o% tax on profits; but this law was modified in 1842, the tax being removed from banks giving specie guarantees; and a free banking act was passed in 1851.

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  • In 934 it was passed by the German king Henry I., after which it was extended by King Harold Bluetooth (940-986), but was again stormed by the emperor Otto II.

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  • He challenged the legality of Horne's consecration, and a special act of parliament was passed to meet the point, while the charge against Bonner was withdrawn.

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  • It gives rise to various decomposition products such as pyridine, picoline, &c., when its vapour is passed through a red-hot tube.

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  • Caietae Portus was no doubt connected with the Via Appia (which passed through Formiae) by a deverticulum.

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  • Laws were also passed during his term putting obstacles in the way of recovering fugitive slaves.

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  • He was also one of the members who refused to adjourn at the king's command till Sir John Eliot's resolutions had been passed.

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  • According to Clarendon he told the latter in 1641 that if the Grand Remonstrance had not passed "he would have sold all he had the next morning and never have seen England more."

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  • The lords and the Scots vehemently took Manchester's part; but the Commons eventually sided with Cromwell, appointed Sir Thomas Fairfax general of the New Model Army, and passed two self-denying ordinances, the second of which, ordering all members of both houses to lay down their commissions within forty days, was accepted by the lords on the 3rd of April 1645.

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  • The ordinance establishing the special tribunal for the trial was passed by a remnant of the House of Commons alone, from which all dissentients were excluded by the army.

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  • On the 25th of lvIarch the Remonstrance, now termed the Petition and Advice, and including a new scheme of government, was passed by a majority of 123 to 62 in spite of the opposition of the officers; and on the 31st it was presented to Cromwell in the Banqueting House at Whitehall whence Charles I.

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  • It was only when five years had passed since the death of the king without any "settlement of the nation" being arrived at, that Cromwell at last accepted a constitution drafted by his military officers, and attempted to impose it on the parliament.

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  • When it stormed before my bread was baked, I fixed a few boards over the fire, and sat under them to watch my loaf, and passed some pleasant hours in that way.

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  • Once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he had grown deaf in his later years, but he occasionally hummed a psalm, which harmonized well enough with my philosophy.

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  • Specifically, a virus or bug passed to a pig is considered a huge threat in the medical community, because pigs can pass their diseases onto humans.

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  • Vamps moved out of his way as he strode through the halls, and several bowed their heads as he passed.

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  • To his surprise, she'd passed out.

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  • She passed several men with guns hidden in the alcoves of doors as she walked.

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  • No human's eyes glowed red, and their inhuman growls as she passed resembled those of animals.

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  • He reached for her, but his scarred hand passed through hers, as if all that remained of him was a ghost of the man he'd been.

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  • It was a barracks for the Guardians, most of whom greeted her with a quiet good day, ikira as she passed.

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  • Glad she passed your test.

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  • He passed it on his way out of town.

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  • The dead vamp's memories were fresh in her mind, and she sought the sights he'd passed.

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  • He kicked her as he passed.

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  • They passed through the activity unscathed before he started down another hall.

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  • They passed through two more doors before exiting into a cold desert night on the side of a mountain, overlooking the activity at the elevator's entrance.

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  • Steeling herself, she passed Pierre at her door and knocked on Damian's door.

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  • Pierre glanced up from the game he played on his iPhone as she passed him.

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  • Carefully, Selyn wrote out something then passed it to Deidre.

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  • A long time passed until both heard the muffled but distinct sound of Martha's quiet sobbing in her adjacent room.

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  • Dean was sure they had not passed an unmarked turn.

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  • She thought a moment, and then saluted as a flag-draped collie passed them.

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  • Not at the head of the line when brains were passed out, but basically a good slob.

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  • While Dean felt foolish, he couldn't help feeling a tickle of pleasure as hundreds of people clapped and cheered as they passed.

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  • Dean tossed one—at him, not to him—as he passed.

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  • Her reverie passed quickly and she seemed embarrassed by it.

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  • Its arrival pre-dated theirs, as it would have passed them back in the basin.

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  • Dean glanced inside as he passed.

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  • Finally, after ten minutes of silence passed, they heard the sound of feet running down the slope on the other side of the rise above them.

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  • As he watched, Faust's Jeep passed into view, with two figures clearly visible.

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  • Dean was afraid she'd passed out.

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  • The churning in his stomach increased as the hours passed.

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  • To make matters worse, half of Bird Song's guests who passed by congratulated him on the debate, a sure sign they hadn't been there.

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  • He handed it to Harold who read it and passed it on to the others.

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  • Paul Dawkins was only a smidgen more pleasant than his elder brother as Dean, lugging the heavy monitor, passed him entering the parlor.

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  • As the group passed the stairs, Ginger Dawkins was coming down.

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  • Something unspoken passed between them as Fred returned, his arm around his jailer's shoulders.

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  • But time passed, and the call never came.

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  • More than a week passed before the subject of Brandon Westlake was discussed in any detail.

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  • A moment passed before he appeared.

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  • But Jonathan's mother had passed away, and his father didn't want a cripple.

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  • Carmen's first impulse was to snatch Destiny back, but the six months waiting period had long passed.

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  • A week passed without word from Lori... at least Carmen didn't hear from her.

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  • With all the trips to the barn, the morning passed quickly.

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  • But he didn't wake, and each day that passed made it less likely that he would come out of the coma.

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  • As they passed Josh's house, she spied Lori's car.

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  • Someone must have already been on the way because she passed two more patrol cars and found a third waiting for her at the store.

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  • The euphoria of his awakening from the coma passed as other symptoms persisted.

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  • A month had passed since he had been stabbed.

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  • Sticking her arms through what passed for an armhole, she shrugged into it, struggling to zip it up in the back.

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  • She passed three face painting clowns before she gave in and decided to have her own done.

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  • She'd passed through that stage after a few months and decided to make – and fulfill – her bucket list.

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  • Time passed differently in the underworld than the mortal world.

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  • A few hours had passed since he left Deidre's bed this morning; it was early afternoon in the mortal realm.

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  • Several men passed by where she was hidden, and she backed away as quietly as she could.

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  • She passed the halfway point and forced herself to keep going.

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  • She passed the three quarters point, and tears filled her gaze.

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  • All she could do was hope she passed out and awoke in her bed or on the beach or not at all.

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  • Daniela said they passed through it on their way to the island.

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  • Her gaze passed over the faces in the crowd across the street.

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  • She grew edgy as they passed the town near the bungalow before pulling up the long driveway to the beach house.

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  • He had a handler who passed messages from the demons to him.

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  • The demons they passed bowed to Darkyn, their eyes riveted to her once the scary creature strode by.

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  • Another hour of silence passed, and she started to pace.

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  • Dropping the papers on her computer desk, she then stripped off her coat and passed by the guest…Toby's room.

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  • The unease passed quickly as he saw which death dealer stood before him.

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  • Gabriel's hand snaked out as she passed, and he yanked the bottle neatly from her hand.

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  • He winked as she passed and licked his lips.

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  • One by one the inmates made their offers as she passed.

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  • There were small white houses here, one with a dog that barked as she passed.

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  • She heard several different languages spoken before those she passed fell silent.

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  • Megan led her again through hallways that fell silent when she passed.

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  • Rhyn was standing outside the door, and she passed him without a look.

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  • She was scared to turn around, almost as if afraid he'd be passing out his phone number to every lithe, beautiful Amazonian they passed.

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  • Rhyn slapped her on the butt as he passed.

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  • Those at the tables she passed quieted and watched.

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  • There was life here, and friendly looks as she passed.

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  • Warmth passed through his gaze, and the skin around his eyes softened as he took in her expression.

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  • She didn.t remember him being so tall in Hell, but she.d been afraid to look too hard at him when she passed his cell.

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  • He opened the portal and stepped into the shadow world, envisioning the place Gabriel had passed to him.

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  • Rhyn waited until the healer passed him and then stepped into the shadow world behind him.

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  • Hannah cried, pointing to the doorway they'd just passed to one of the mid-level floors.

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  • A familiar shape in the dark corner of the cafeteria caught his attention as he passed, and he paused to raise a hand in greeting.

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  • He passed through them tensely, many of them as bloody or bruised as he was.

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  • The demons passed her around.

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  • Recognition passed over his face.

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  • Kiera took her usual chair, and Romas ruffled her hair as he passed her.

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  • That time passed with the suffering of his people and the ability of the Council to coerce all his allies but one to leave his side.

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  • His people's hope had turned to desperation in the hands of the Yirkin when every sun-cycle passed and there was no nishani.

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  • The next two days passed quickly as Kiera helped Evelyn set up her sudden wedding.

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  • Six days passed on the ship.

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  • The world was becoming more real as the days passed.

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  • Several of what Evelyn had called warriors passed her in the hall.

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  • The man she just passed was a foot taller than Romas and one and a half times as wide.

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  • Another giant of a man passed her, and she shook her head, amazed.

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  • Pillows passed as chairs, and bowls as cups.

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  • She passed through the throng without making eye contact for fear of leers or judging looks and reached the entrance foyer.

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  • One note described in two sentences a Sunday trip to the Public Gardens while another mentioned three years had passed since the sisters had seen one another.

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  • Dean picked up the comb, pen and ink bottle and passed them to her as well.

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  • Dean chatted with a number of the merchants of the few still-open businesses he passed.

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  • At the far end of the loop, they passed the few remaining structures of the abandoned town of Ironton; empty, ghost-like buildings.

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  • As they passed the plowed pullout for the cutoff to Engineer pass, they were reminded of the past June and their mountain-camping honeymoon, up this road and into Poughkeepsie Gulch.

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  • Two cars were parked off the edge of the road and as they passed, Cynthia looked back with a start.

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  • Just as they had reversed their direction, Edith Shipton passed them, driving down the mountain, not speeding but too fast by Dean's conservative standards.

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  • A vehicle, a mud-splatted Blazer, with skis in a rack atop it, followed her and slowed as it passed the building.

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  • I suspect the new Mrs. Martin passed on sometime a year or so later, after the last letter.

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  • Edith passed by, dressed in civies, her beloved white dress temporarily put aside.

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  • You're on a belayed line that is passed under one thigh and over the opposite shoulder so that it can be paid out, nice and smooth, a little at a time....

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  • Fred married my mother years after dad passed away.

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  • No wonder Annie looked the other way when he passed by!

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  • Jerome Shipton passed Dean in the hall, holding the side of his head, and left the building as Dean hung up the phone.

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  • As he came out of the trees and crossed the bridge, he passed the sheriff 's car and emergency vehicles, their bubble gum lights still turning red or blue in the thickening snow.

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  • I passed Skinny Nelly who looked the other way as I neared her.

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  • The local vehicles that passed him invariable gave him a wave and a wide berth.

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  • Here the road was dry and only a few cars passed him before he drifted past a private hot spring, along the wide curve and by the County fairgrounds before entering Ridgway.

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  • I passed Corday and his sidekick headed this way.

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  • He wandered back to his office, listening to only silence as he passed Ryland's door.

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  • Edith had her back to Dean so he couldn't see the look she gave Claire but she passed her haughtily and was gone.

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  • Dean tried to ignore Edith Shipton's body as he passed the temporary catafalque erected in his office.

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  • He passed the recently restored Beaumont Hotel, a beautiful structure that after several decades of disuse and deterioration had finally been returned to its past glory.

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  • Dean thanked the personable young lady but passed on the invitation.

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  • He was concentrating on the roadway, miles from Ouray, when Franny Mulligan passed him, slammed on her brakes, and waved him back to where she parked.

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  • Everyone who passed looked on with awe.

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  • Dinner passed with a good share of awkwardness.

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  • Carmen passed him the pan of meat and vegetables.

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  • He caught her in the dairy one day and gently informed her that the hen had passed away.

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  • As the days passed, it was obvious that Alex had fallen back into Katie's good graces.

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  • Alex grabbed her arm as she passed, whirling her to face him.

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  • The medic gave him a worried look as he passed, and Brady's gaze went again to the wounded soldier.

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  • Of course, he'd never felt so personally responsible for any of the women that passed through his life.

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  • He passed it to Elise, who looked at the sites Tim had identified.

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  • The next hour passed as if in a dream.

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  • Rhyn crept carefully through the demon scouts positioned throughout the forest surrounding the castle.  The demons wore the Dark One's uniform of all black with waterproof cloaks and hoods.  The demon side of him rendered his presence similar enough to a full-demon's that the others wouldn't be alarmed.  He sized up each demon he passed, until he found one who appeared to be his size.  The creature didn't hear his soft step, and the snapping of the demon's neck was the only other sound in the falling rain.

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  • You cannot destroy this place or start a war with me before four days have passed.

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  • The histories of humanity – and Immortals – were passed down from angel-to-angel in the form of memories.  He'd heard them mentioned before but didn't know much about angels.

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  • Toby looked up as the familiar demon named Jared passed his cell, trailed by two demons carrying a body with another familiar face.

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  • The branch obliged him and passed him upwards to another, which stretched him as far up as it could reach.  Then dropped him.  Toby yelped as he fell.  Another branch caught him and lifted him upwards again.

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  • Dean passed out his business card to Mayer and a few of the other workers in case anything important came to mind.

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  • Dean planned to send a patrol car by later to pick up some clothes but his trip home passed within a block of Parsons Street and on an impulse, he drove by the building.

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  • Dean passed along the information on the two hoods staking out Vinnie's apartment.

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  • Dean was out of the house before Fred arose and the morning passed uneventfully with Dean, Harrigan and Tom DeLeo addressing the usual assortment of Parkside offenses.

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  • Dean became concerned when 20 minutes passed.

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  • The thought passed Dean's mind that he'd already carried her to bed once today but he held his tongue.

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  • Fred was uncommonly quiet and minutes passed before he spoke.

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  • Their brief search halted when a security guard swore no one had passed his way and too many corridors and stairways went in other directions, making further search difficult.

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  • Weeks had passed since the two had spoken and the conversation was more social than business.

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  • He cried for the first time since his mother had passed away 15 years earlier.

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  • It seemed every other rider had passed him on the climb until he looked down the mountain and saw hundreds of dots of color still struggling up the incline behind him.

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  • He could spot the rider now and again with occasional glances and by counting off the seconds between points they both passed, knew he was gaining, if ever so slowly.

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  • The clus­ter of 12 riders who passed him further up the mountain was now about to pass the other rider.

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  • My sainted daddy used to say there are two things in life you don't want to see, sausage being made and laws being passed.

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  • Yeah. I guess I sort of passed out on him after the piss stop.

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  • Carmen took his hand and grinned at Katie as she passed.

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  • Maybe it was because he took his time, or because there were so many opportunities that were passed over – whatever the case, it wasn't as unpleasant as she had imagined.

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  • Josh was in his field digging fence post holes when she passed.

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  • He glanced up sharply and a shadow passed over those warm eyes.

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  • July passed into August without any defining moments.

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  • She passed him the roast.

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  • She was in a lot of pain before she passed away?

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  • They passed the obelisk marked with the White God's lineage.

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  • Jule's troubled gaze was on the apple trees they passed beneath.

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  • She'd passed the first two buildings before she remembered to look around her.

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  • Before he passed out, he released what sounded like a hoarse laugh.

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  • He squeezed her arm as she passed him.

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  • The images passed through her thoughts again.

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  • Though her trip had taken more than two hours on the immortal side, less than an hour had passed in the mortal world.

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  • His eyes adjusted quickly to the darkened room as he passed empty shelves to a second door.

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  • A moment passed, and her frozen breath drifted upwards.

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  • He didn't look back but tagged Xander on the arm as he passed.

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  • She passed below him.

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  • She ceased squirming when her pursuers passed below them.

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  • It had been too long since he recited them; five summers had passed since he was freed from the underground.

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  • Already he felt as if an age had passed since he was flung into the darkness.

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  • There were three women to every one man he passed.

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  • Sirian gave him a cold look as he passed.

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  • Vara lifted his chin in greeting as she passed him, and she wiped her eyes, meeting his green gaze.

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  • As she passed, he grinned.

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  • At seventeen, Jenny would easily have passed for twenty-one.

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  • Several things passed through Carmen's mind at that moment.

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  • Jonathan ghosted out of the kitchen and when he passed through the living room she stopped him.

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  • As she heard the door to the garage close, a voice passed over her – a ghost from the past.

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  • As Alondra and Alex passed her, Alex dropped a hand to Carmen's shoulder.

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  • It was a well-known fact that Mrs. O'Hara would never surrender her kitchen to a maid, so the alibi passed as genuine.

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  • Only one vehicle passed her in the fifteen minutes it took her to reach the next turnoff indicated on the map.

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  • It had been nearly a half-hour since the last car had passed her.

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  • She glanced at the station as she passed, but the little blue mustang was gone.

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  • Now that the storm had passed, her taut muscles relaxed and she felt weak.

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  • The hours passed without another scream and she was still sitting at the table when the first rays of morning light warmed the kitchen.

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  • What if she passed out now and he had to go for help?

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  • If your mother has passed, will you consider joining me?

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  • As the years passed, their relationship transitioned from master and weapon into something different.

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  • That time passed, when she saw how dedicated he was to doing whatever it took to reach his opportunity for vengeance.

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  • Deep in thought, Eden was unaware of how much time passed.

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  • He recognized Ingrid's mind; she was passed out on the couch, curled up with his cat.

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  • They walked around the building to the front, and he passed off the unconscious woman to Gerry.

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  • Had she maybe just passed out and hit her head?

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  • He slapped her on her ass as she passed him, infuriating her.

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  • The one in front of him passed out.

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  • Xander passed his phone back to Ashley.

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  • Before it's passed to the eldest son, it goes to the wife an immortal chooses.

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  • She glanced towards the blocky sign as they passed it.

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  • Ashley asked as she passed him the keys.

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  • He passed off his keys to a valet.

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  • He passed them all onto her.

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  • He passed the girl in his arms off to Jule, fury rising.

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  • I passed your damn trial?

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  • In February 1532 he protested against all acts concerning the church passed by the parliament which met in 1529, but this did not prevent the important proceedings which secured the complete submission of the church to the state later in the same year.

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  • There he passed nine studious years, chiefly devoted to classical reading, Plato and Tacitus being his favourite authors, because "the former described the ideal man, and the latter man as he really is."

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  • His early years were passed at Anagni.

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  • He passed his time in feasts and pageants, while in a bull the pope denounced him as a criminal, a pagan and a heretic, until, terrified by a slight disturbance on the 15th of December, he abdicated and fled from Rome.

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  • The southern part of Northumbria now passed entirely into the hands of the invaders, but they allowed a certain Ecgberht to reign over the portion of the kingdom north of the Tyne.

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  • An attack of the ague sent him home, and on recovery, having resolved to attend a high school and fit himself to become a teacher, he passed the next four years in a hard struggle with poverty and in an earnest effort to secure an education, studying for a short time in the Geauga Seminary atChester, Ohio.

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  • Blaine was made a senator from Maine, the leadership of the House of Representatives passed to Garfield, and he became the Republican candidate for speaker.

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  • From the free out-door life at Nohant she passed at thirteen to the convent of the English Augustinians at Paris, where for the first two years she never went outside the walls.

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  • All at once a sudden shock passed through my whole being, my eyes swam, and I seemed wrapped in a dazzling white mist.

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  • Her husband, though he afterwards deteriorated, seems at that time to have been neither better nor worse than the Berrichon squires around him, and the first years of her married life, during which her son Maurice and her daughter Solange were born, except for lovers' quarrels, were passed in peace and quietness, though signs were not wanting of the coming storm.

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  • Both passed through phases of faith, but while even Positivism did not cool George Eliot's innate religious fervour, with George Sand religion was a passing experience, no deeper than her republicanism and less lasting than her socialism, and she lived and died a gentle savage.

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  • After a short stay first at Alen90n and then in Bourges, he passed over to England, where he found refuge in London with Ugo Foscolo, and made a few English friends.

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  • Ancyra was the centre of the Tectosages, one of the three Gaulish tribes which settled in Galatia in the 3rd century B.C., and became the capital of the Roman province of Galatia when it was formally constituted in 25 B.C. During the Byzantine period, throughout which it occupied a position of great importance, it was captured by Persians and Arabs; then it fell into the hands of the Seljuk Turks, was held for eighteen years by the Latin Crusaders, and finally passed to the Ottoman Turks in 1360.

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  • Many instances are on record of symptoms of poisoning, and even death, having followed the consumption of plants which have passed as true mushrooms; these cases have probably arisen from the examples consumed being in a state of decay, or from some mistake as to the species eaten.

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  • An act for the " reorganization " of the government was passed on the 19th of June.

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  • It dates from the 11th century, and once belonged to the Ogilvies, from whom it passed in 1535 to the Gordons.

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  • His over-emotional nature passed rapidly from one phase of feeling to another; but the more melancholy moods predominated.

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  • The Regulating Act, passed by Lord North's ministry in 1773, effected considerable changes in the constitution of the Bengal government.

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  • Shortly before his acquittal he had been able to satisfy the dream of his childhood, by buying back the ancestral manor of Daylesford, where the remainder of his life was passed in honourable retirement.

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  • His lands passed to his son Louis, then only nine years old, who began his rule in 1192.

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  • Laws to secure this object have been passed, but funds are lacking for their execution on a sufficiently large scale.

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  • In 1717, however, Cardinal Alberoni retook Cagliari for Spain; but this state of things was short-lived, for in 1720, by the treaty of London, Sardinia passed in exchange for Sicily to the dukes of Savoy, to whom it brought the royal title.

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  • He vehemently opposed the persecuting acts now passed - the Corporation Act, the Uniformity Bill, against which he is said to have spoken three hundred times, and the Militia Act.

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  • He urged on the bill by which Catholics were prohibited from sitting in either House of Parliament, and was bitter in his expressions of disappointment when the Commons passed a proviso excepting James, against whom the bill was especially aimed, from its operation.

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  • On the 15th of November the Exclusion Bill, having passed the Commons, was brought up to the Lords, and an historic debate took place, in which Halifax and Shaftesbury were the leaders on opposite sides.

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  • In 1727 he bought Betchworth Castle, near Dorking, where he passed the remainder of his life.

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  • On her death in 1 754, he occupied himself in collecting together all the letters that had passed between them, which, we are told, he transcribed twice over under the title of "The Picture of Artless Love."

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  • It then passed to the counts of La Marck and was made a duchy in 1417, being united with the neighbouring duchies of Jiilich and Berg in 1521.

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  • The death without direct heirs of Duke John William in 1609 led to serious complications in which almost all the states of Europe were concerned; however, by the treaty of Xanten in 1614, Cleves passed to the elector of Brandenburg, being afterwards incorporated with the electorate by the great elector, Frederick William.

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  • All of the claims were finally confirmed, by a series of statutes passed in 1799, 1802 and 1807.

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  • After three quiet years passed in retirement in France (1550-1553), he was charged with a new mission to Pope Julius III.

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  • He then went to school in Lausanne, and from there passed on to the Theresianum in Vienna.

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  • In 1821 Mr John Scott, the editor of the London Magazine, was killed in a duel, and that periodical passed into the hands of some friends of Hood, who proposed to make him sub-editor.

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  • As a boy he attended the Volksschule of his native village, and at the age of seventeen, having passed through the gymnasium of Kdslin, went to Berlin to study medicine.

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  • In the ensuing party struggles the city passed under a tyrant, Theagenes (about 640), whose rule was too brief to produce great changes.

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  • During the Macedonian supremacy the town passed in turn from Cassander and Demetrius Poliorcetes to Antigonus Gonatas, and finally was incorporated in the Achaean League.

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  • When the duke of Orleans became regent (1715) Dubois, who had for some years acted as his secretary, was made councillor of state, and the chief power passed gradually into his hands.

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  • He was present at the battle of Weisser Berg (near Prague), where the hopes of the elector palatine were blasted (November 8, 1620), passed the winter with the army in southern Bohemia, and next year served in Hungary under Karl Bonaventura de Longueval, Graf von Buquoy or Boucquoi (1571-1621).

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  • The kingdom of Cyprus passed to Hugh, his son by an earlier marriage, while that of Jerusalem passed to Maria, the daughter of Isabella by her previous marriage with Conrad of Montferrat.

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  • It excited the admiration of Gonzales Clavijo, the Spanish envoy, when he passed through it on his way to visit the court of Timur at Samarkand (Clavijo, Historia del gran Tamorlan, p. 84); and Cardinal Bessarion, who was a native of the place, in the latter part of his life, when the city had passed into the hands of the Mahommedans, and he was himself a dignitary of the Roman Church, so little forgot the impression it had made upon him that he wrote a work entitled "The Praise of Trebizond" ('E-yac c uLovTpaire oiivros), which exists in manuscript at Venice.

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  • In 1 533 it was raised to a margraviate by the emperor Charles V., and wds held by various families until in 1799 it passed, through the Sultzbach branch of the Wittelsbachs, to the royal house of Bavaria, by whom it was renounced in favour of the Batavian republic in 1801.

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  • Besides the historical narrative, there were works mainly geographical or topographical left by persons like Baeton and Diognetus, whom Alexander had employed (as Onyarcaral.) to survey the roads over which he passed.

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  • Iulis was the birthplace of the lyric poets Simonides and Bacchylides, the philosophers Prodicus and Ariston, and the physician Erasistratus; the excellence of its laws was so generally recognized that the title of Cean Laws passed into a proverb.

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  • Albania is perhaps the least-known region in Europe; and though more than a hundred years have passed since Gibbon described it as "a country within sight of Italy, which is less known than the interior of America," but little progress has yet been made towards a scientific knowledge of this interesting land and its inhabitants.

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  • His descendants held the borough and the manor of Horsham, and through them they passed to the family of Mowbray, afterwards dukes of Norfolk.

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  • Apprehensions such as those which possessed the mind of Dean Stanley have long passed away.

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  • The Manitoba Act constituting the province was passed by the Canadian parliament in 1870.

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  • In many forms of fireplaces fresh air is brought in and passed around the back and sides of the stove before being admitted into the room.

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  • The best form of open fireplace is the ventilating stove, in which fresh air is passed around the back and sides of the stove before being admitted through convenient openings into the room.

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  • The steam is passed through the valve and emerges at the pressure required generally from 3 lb upwards.

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  • This method is frequently adopted in combined schemes of heating and ventilating; the fresh air is warmed by being passed over their surfaces previously to being admitted through the gratings into the room.

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  • A water pipe of copper or wrought iron is passed through a cylinder in which gas or oil heating burners are placed.

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  • French literature passed through the same phase, from which indeed it was later in emerging; and the ultimate consequence was the enrichment of both languages.

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  • In the early municipal constitution ex-magistrates passed automatically into the senate of their town; but at a later date this order was reversed, and membership of the senate became a qualification for the magistracy.

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  • Its evolution and the thorough application of its principles to actual church life came later, not in Saxony or Switzerland, but in France and Scotland; and through Scotland it has passed to all English-speaking lands.

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  • Then with the Restoration came Episcopacy, and the persecution of all who were not Episcopalians; and the dream and vision of a truly Reformed English Church practically passed away.

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  • The Correggio family never managed to keep possession of it for long, and in 1346 they sold it to the Visconti (who constructed a citadel, La Rocchetta, in 1356, of which some remains exist on the east bank of the river, while the later ate du Pont may be seen on the west bank), and from them it passed to the Sforza.

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  • Antonio and Francesco both having died childless, the duchy passed to Charles of Bourbon (Don Carlos), infante of Spain, who, becoming king of Naples in 1734, surrendered Parma and Piacenza to Austria, but retained the artistic treasures of the Farnese dynasty which he had removed from Parma to Naples.

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  • As the work of the societies succeeded, they gradually passed out of existence.

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  • In 1835, with the title of governor and captain general, he acquired dictatorial powers, and all public authority passed into his hands.

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  • In 1896 a bill was passed by congress, which authorized the state by the issue of national bonds to assume the provincial external indebtedness.

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  • A law passed In.

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  • Either house may pass a vote of no confidence in the government, and in practice the government resigns in face of the passing of such a vote by the deputies, but not if it is passed by the Senate only.

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  • When the budget has passed both chambers it is promulgated by the president under the title of Loi des finances.

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  • An administrative tribunal called the cour des corn ptes subjects the accounts of the states financial agents (trsorierspayeurs, receveurs of registration fees, of customs, of indirect taxes, &c.) and of the communesi to a close investigation, and a vote of definitive settlement is finally passed by parliament.

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  • Since 1875 the expenditure of the state has passed through considerable fluctuations- It reached its maximum in 1883, descended E dl- in 1888 and 1889, and since then has continuously inxpeft creased.

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  • The general staff and also the staff of the corps and divisions are composed of_certificated (breveUs) officers who have passed all through the Ecole de Guerre.

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  • To become professor in a lyce it is necessary to pass an examination known as the agrgation, candidates for which must be licentiates of a faculty (or have passed through the cole normale suprieurc).

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  • The first step taken in this direction was in 1900 when a law was passed which laid down that the colonies were to provide for their own civil expenditure.

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  • A similar influence was exerted by him in other branches of the common law; and although, after his retirement, a reaction took place, and he was regarded for a while as one who had corrupted the ancient principles of English law, these prejudices passed rapidly away, and the value of his work in bringing the older law into harmony with the needs of modern society has long been fully recognized.

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  • It became an important Seljuk town, and late in the 14th century passed into Ottoman hands.

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  • On the 28th of November Oates accused her of high treason, and the Commons passed an address for her removal and that of all the Roman Catholics from Whitehall.

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  • From England he passed to the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and on his return to the Peninsula in 1796 was appointed official translator to the foreign office.

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  • It was taken by France in 1807, and in 1815 it passed to Prussia.

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  • The same term is applied to the acts passed by the state legislatures for correcting and redistributing the representation of the counties.

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  • They form compounds with hydrochloric acid when this gas is passed into their ethereal solution; these compounds, however, are very unstable, being readily decomposed by water.

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  • Another shorter valley began near the present Jaffa gate and, taking an easterly direction, joined the Tyropoeon; while a third ravine passed across what is now the northern part of the Haram enclosure and fell into the valley of the Kidron.

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  • When he died three years later Lauenburg passed to his nephew, George Louis, elector of Hanover, afterwards king of Great Britain as George I., whose rights were recognized by the emperor Charles VI.

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  • In 1518 the manor was granted to Sir Walter Raleigh, from whom it passed to Sir Richard Boyle, afterwards earl of Cork.

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  • His sister's son, John of Burgundy, count of Nevers, now received the countship, which passed through heiresses, in the 15th century, to the house of Cleves, and to that of Lorraine-Guise.

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  • The country passed through was mostly of a forbidding character, except where the Kimberley district was entered, and the expedition suffered even more than the usual hardships.

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  • The countship, however, had passed in 1422 to the house of La Tour, and was not annexed to the domain until 1615.

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  • A little later Lingen was sold to the emperor Charles V., from whom it passed to his son, Philip II.

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  • After the death of the English king, William III., in 1702, it passed to Frederick I., king of Prussia, and in 1815 the lower county was transferred to Hanover, only to be united again with Prussia in 1866.

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  • Now, we know that the number of electrochemical equivalents electrolysed is proportional to the whole amount of electricity which passed through the circuit, and the product of this by the electromotive force of the battery is the work done by the latter, so that in this case also Joule showed that the heat generated was proportional to the work done.

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  • There is some reason to hope that the day of these misconceptions is passed; although there is also some reason to fear that on other grounds the present era may be known to posterity as an era of instrumentation comparable, in its gorgeous chaos of experiment and its lack of consistent ideas of harmony and form, only to the monodic period at the beginning of the 17th century, in which no one had ears for anything but experiments in harmonic colour.

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  • In 1708 an act was passed for extending the fortifications of Chatham.

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  • An excellent brake for very large cranes is Matthew's hydraulic brake, in which water is passed from end to end of cylinders fitted with reciprocating pistons, cooling jackets being provided.

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  • In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

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  • When the Semitic tribes settled in the cities of Babylonia, their tribal custom passed over into city law.

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  • The term came in time to mean " a beggar " and with that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily poor, he may have been landless.

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  • Otherwise he might marry a freewoman (the children were then free), who might bring him a dower which his master could not touch, and at his death one-half of his property passed to his master as his heir.

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  • After his fall it was restored to Tuscany, and passed with it to Italy in 1860.

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  • This was a very important position owing to the amount of information concerning European affairs which passed through the hands of the representative of Spain.

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  • The insulation is again tested, and if no fault is discovered the served core is passed through the sheathing machine, and the iron sheath and the outer covering are laid on.

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  • The speed of the ship must therefore be so regulated that the angle of immersion is as great as the inclination of the steepest slope passed over.

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  • This slip is then passed through a transmitter fitted with brush contacts and connected to the two line wires of a metallic loop. One circuit is formed by the loop itself, and a second, quite independent, by the two wires in parallel, earthed at each end.

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  • The bromide paper is automatically passed through a developing bath, a fixing bath, and drying rollers.

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  • The messages in the form of perforated tape are then passed through an automatic transmitter, something like a Wheatstone transmitter, at a speed of about 100 words a minute.

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  • The slips are passed through an ordinary Wheatstone transmitter and actuate Wheatstone receiving apparatus which in turn controls a " Creed receiving perforator."

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  • This machine reproduces a copy of the original transmitting slip, which can be passed on to any other Wheatstone circuit or can be run through a " Creed printer," which is a pneumatic machine actuating a typewriter by means of valves.

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  • Over the surface of the plate and between it and the indicator there was passed, at a regularly uniform speed, in a direction perpendicular to the line of motion of the indicator, a material capable of being acted on physically by the sparks, through either their chemical action, their heat, or their perforating force.

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  • The short leg of the siphon tube dips into an insulated ink-bottle, so' that the ink it contains becomes electrified, while the long leg has its open end at a very small distance from a brass table, placed with its surface parallel to the plane in which the mouth of the leg moves, and over which a slip of paper may be passed at a uniform rate, as in the spark recorder.

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  • When therefore the signalcoil moves in obedience to the electric signal-currents passed through it, the motion communicated to the siphon is recorded on the moving slip of paper by a wavy line of ink-marks very close together.

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  • He caused the relay in series with the sensitive tube to set in action not only a telegraphic instrument but also the electromagnetic tapper, which was arranged so as to administer light blows on the under side of the sensitive tube when the latter passed into the conductive condition.

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  • It was then found that when electric waves fell on the antenna a sound was heard in the telephone as each wave train passed over it, so that if the wave trains endured for a longer or shorter time the sound in the telephone was of corresponding duration.

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  • He passed the oscillations to be detected through a fine wire or strip of gold leaf, and over this, but just not touching, suspended a loop of bismuth-antimony wire by a quartz fibre.

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  • Hence we frequently meet with forms which had passed out of the language that was spoken at the time they were engraved, side by side with their equivalents in that language.

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  • Cadmium salts can be recognized by the brown incrustation which is formed when they are heated on charcoal in the oxidizing flame of the blowpipe; and also by the yellow precipitate formed when sulphuretted hydrogen is passed though their acidified solutions.

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  • The pitch of a musical sound depends on the number of cycles passed through by the fluctuations of the pressure per unit of time; the loudness depends on the amount or the amplitude of the fluctuation in each cycle; the quality depends on the form or the nature of the fluctuation in each cycle.

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  • In these experiments the electric current passed through the fingers of the operator's hand, which thus took the place of the spring in Edison's apparatus.

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  • When the current passed, the friction was felt to increase, and the effect of sending a rapidly undulating current through the arrangement was to produce a sound.

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  • The line of circuit passed through the secondary of the induction coil I to the line, from that to the telephone T at the receiving station, 'See Journal of the Telegraph, New York, April 1877; Philadelphia Times, 9th July 1877; and Scientific American, August 181 This term was used by Wheatstone in 1827 for an acoustic apparatus intended to convert very feeble into audible sounds; see his Scientific Papers, p. 32.

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  • The current from the battery used passed from the diaphragm through the granulated carbon to the metallic back of the box.

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  • This current is small, however, and the meter is not operated until a much larger current is passed through it.

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  • If there be a line free, or when the turn of the call is reached, particulars of the connexion wanted are passed to the distant end, and the trunk operators request the local exchanges to connect the subscribers by means of junction I F..?

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  • Particulars of calls are now passed between trunk centres to a great extent over telegraph circuits superposed upon the trunk lines.

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  • This arrangement permits particulars of calls to be passed over lines while conversations are in progress.

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  • The cable is then placed in an oven, and, after all moisture has been driven off, it is passed through a lead press whence it emerges protected by a continuous lead pipe.

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  • It was now that he began to frequent the ruined little chapel of St Mary of the Angels, known as the Portiuncula, where much of his time was passed in prayer.

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  • He retained through life his early love of song, and during his last illness he passed much of his time in singing.

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  • The sultan sent him back to the Christian camp, and he passed on to the Holy Land.

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  • The remaining months of his life were passed in great bodily weakness and suffering, and he became almost blind.

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  • A law passed on the 22nd of March 1900 gave a B a, special impulse to this form of enterprise by fixing the ratio r naze.

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  • As yet the Cassa Ecclesiastica had no right to dispose of the property thus entrusted to it; but in 1862 an act was passed by which it transferred all its real property to the national domain, and was credited with a corresponding amount by the exchequer.

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  • Be this as it may, the Lombards, their ranks swelled by the Gepidae, whom they had lately conquered, and by the wrecks of other barbarian tribes, passed southward under their king Alboin in 568.

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  • She was the last heiress of the great house of Canossa, whose fiefs stretched from Mantua across Lombardy, passed the Apennines, included the Tuscan plains, and embraced a portion of the duchy of Spoleto.

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  • Gregory had passed before her from the scene of his contest, an exile at Salerno, whither Robert Guiscard carried him in 1084 from the anarchy of rebellious Rome.

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  • He laid waste Chieri, Asti and Tortona, then took the Lombard crown at Pavia, and, reserving Milan for a future day, passed southward to Rome.

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  • Therefore, when he died in 1458, he bequeathed Naples to his natural son Ferdinand, while Sicily and Aragon passed together to his brother John, and so on to Ferdinand the Catholic. The twenty-three years of Alfonsos reign were the most prosperous and splendid period of South Italian history.

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  • After Cosimo de Medicis death in 1464, the presidency of the Florentine republic passed to his son Piero, who left it in 1469 to his sons Lorenzo and Giuliano.

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  • After Galeazzo Marias assassination, his crown passed to a boy, Gian Galeazzo, who was in due course married to a grand-daughter of Ferdinand I.

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  • He crossed the Alps in 1495, passed through Lombardy, entered Tuscany, freed Pisa from the yoke of Florence, witnessed the expulsion of the Medici, marched to Naples and was crowned tliereall this without striking a blow.

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  • The contest between the royal power and that of the Sicilian estates threatened to bring matters to a deadlock, until in 1812, under the impulse of Lord William Bentinck, a constitution modelled largely on that of England was passed by the estates.

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  • Pressure from all sides of the House, however, induced the ministry to retain office until after the debate on the application to Rome and the Papal States of the Religious Orders Bill (originally passed in 1866)a measure which, with the help of Ricasoli, was carried at the end of May.

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  • Before the commotion caused by the death of Victor Emmanuel had passed away, the decease of Pius IX (7th February 1878) placed further demands upon Crispis sagacity and promptitude.

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  • After the general election of 1880, however, the Ministerialists, aided by a number of factious Conservatives, passed a third bill repealing the grist tax on wheat (10th July 1880), the repeal to take effect from the 1st of January 1884 onwards.

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  • On the 2gth of June 1881 the Chamber adopted a Franchise Reform Bill, which increased the electorate from oo,ooo to 2,000,000 by lowering the fiscal qualification from 40 to 19.80 lire in direct taxation, and by extending the suffrage to all persons who had passed through the two lower standards of the elementary schools, and practically to all persons able to read and write.

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  • Radical measures were passed unmodified, and the Right was compelled sadly to accept the accomplished fact.

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  • Sonnino applied, and subsequently amended, the Bank Reform Bill passed by the previous Administration (August 10, 1893) for the creation of a supreme state bank, the Bank of Italy, which was entrusted with the liquidation.

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  • As in 1894, excessively severe sentences were passed by the military tribunals upon revolutionary leaders and other persons considered to have been implicated in the outbreak, but successive royal amnesties obliterated these condemnations within three years.

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  • A motion was passed for his committal by the Lords, who, as in Clarendon's case, voted his banishment.

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  • This was, however, rejected by the Commons, who now passed an act of attainder.

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  • A son of William Thistlewood, and born at Tupholme in Lincolnshire, young Thistlewood passed his early years in a desultory fashion; he became a soldier and visited France and America, imbibing republican opinions abroad and running into debt at home.

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  • He evaded the request and secured a truce until Easter was passed.

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  • His party fell before the Mountain; sentence of arrest was passed against the leading members of it on the 2nd of June 1793.

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  • If they had, they would devour all who passed near them.

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  • In Trachylinae the polyp-stage is passed over, and is represented only by the actinula as a transitory embryonic stage.

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  • The development of the Trachomedusae, so far as it is known, shows an actinula-stage which is either free (larval) or passed over in the egg (foetal) as in Geryonia; in no case does there appear to be a free planula-stage.

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  • Having been converted into a palace for the Frankish kings and their deputies, it passed in 1197 to the archbishops, and was restored (1846 7 1856) and turned into a Protestant church.

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  • The city passed to Lorraine in 843, and to the East Frankish kingdom in 870.

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  • In the then state of knowledge, it appeared that all the species of animals and plants could be arranged in one series, in such a manner that, by insensible gradations, the mineral passed into the plant, the plant into the polype, the polype into the worm, and so, through gradually higher forms of life, to man, at the summit of the animated world.

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  • Ray Lankester's term, homoplasy, has passed into currency as designating such cases where different genetic material has been pressed by similar conditions into similar moulds.

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  • Reumont's numerous writings deal mainly with Italy, in which country he passed many years of his life.

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  • The government of Germany during his minority was in the hands of Theophano, and after her death in June 99 1 passed to a council in which the chief influence was exercised by Adelaide and Willigis, archbishop of Mainz.

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  • Beyond Fundi it passed through the mountains to Formiae, the engineering of the road being noteworthy; and thence by Minturnae and Sinuessa (towns of the Aurunci which had been conquered in 314 B.C.) 1 to Capua.

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  • After his conquests had been lost, and Corstopitum ceased to be a military centre, its military buildings passed into civilian occupation, of which many evidences have been found.

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  • Mrs Stowe passed eighteen years in Cincinnati under conditions which constantly thrust the problem of human slavery upon her attention.

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  • After the death of her husband in 1886 she passed the rest of her life in the seclusion of her Hartford home, where she died on the 1st of July 1896.

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  • It has even been supposed that amber passed from Sicily to northern Europe in early times - a supposition said to receive some support from the fact that much of the amber dug up in Denmark is red; but it must not be forgotten that reddish amber is found also on the Baltic, though not being fashionable it is used rather for varnish-making than for ornaments.

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  • This is known as the minor examination, and must be passed before anyone can legally dispense, compound and sell scheduled poisons.

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  • Thus passed several years; he was still young, but his new mode of life produced its effects on a man of his imagination and saintly piety.

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  • He soon became prior of the abbey of Anchin, near Pecquencourt, and passed much of his time in the valuable library of the abbey, studying ecclesiastical history, especially that of Flanders.

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  • During the French Revolution his manuscripts passed to the library at Douai.

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  • At about this date Ayala passed over from the Moderates to the Progressives, and this political manoeuvre had its effect upon the fate of his plays.

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  • Cuvier's term in its wide extension, however, passed into general use; but, as the anatomy of the different forms became more fully known, the difficulty of including them under the common designation made itself increasingly obvious.

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  • When the sieve-tube has ceased to function and the protoplasm, slime strings, and callose have disappeared, the perforations through which the slime strings passed are left as relatively large holes, easily visible in some cases with low powers of the microscope, piercing the sieve.plate.

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  • Cork is also formed similarly in the root after the latter has passed through its primary stage as an absorptive organ, and its structure is becoming assimilated to that of the stem.

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  • The cells of the tip at any given moment may be sensitive, but in a few days the power of receiving the stimulus has passed to other and younger cells which then constitute the tip. The power of appreciating the environment is therefore to be associated with the protoplasm only at a particular stage of its development and is transitory in its character.

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  • It was not until many centuries had passed that the parts began to be regarded from the point of view of their essential nature and of their mutual relations; that is, morphologically instead of organographically.

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  • Himilco, a contemporary of Hanno, was charged with an expedition along the west coast of Iberia northward, and as far as the uncertain references to this voyage can be understood, he seems to have passed the Bay of Biscay and possibly sighted the coast of England.

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  • From the 8th to the 11th century a commercial route from India passed through Novgorod to the Baltic, and Arabian coins found in Sweden, and particularly in the island of Gotland, prove how closely the enterprise of the Northmen and of the Arabs intertwined.

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  • As things were, the importance of this discovery passed unrecognized.

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  • Among them was Nicolo Conti, who passed through Persia, sailed along the coast of Malabar, visited Sumatra, Java and the south of China, returned by the Red sea, and got home to Venice in 1444 after an absence of twenty-five years.

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  • This commerce was a great source of wealth to Venice; but after the discovery of the new passage round the Cape, and the conquests of the Portuguese, the trade of the East passed into other hands.

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  • From this place Quiros returned to America, but Torres continued the voyage, passed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea which bears his name, and explored and mapped the southern and eastern coasts of New Guinea.

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  • They passed the cape on the 31st of January, encountering the usual westerly winds.

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  • During the remarkable voyage he then made to Timor, Bligh passed amongst the northern islands of the New Hebrides, which he named the Banks Group, and made several running surveys.

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  • Having passed some time in the court circle, Sunderland was successively ambassador at Madrid, at Paris and at Cologne; in 1678 he was again ambassador at Paris.

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  • The rest of his life was passed in seclusion at Althorp, where he died on the 28th of September 1702.

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  • The management of the company had meanwhile passed into the hands of others, whose sole object was to settle accounts with the government, and wind up the undertaking.

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  • The act as originally passed contained four other clauses.

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  • Thus charged on the silver bend, it makes bad armory and it is worthy of note that, although the grant of it is clearly to the duke and his heirs in fee simple, Howards of all branches descending from the duke bear it in their shields, even though all right to it has long passed from the house to the duke's heirs general, the Stourtons and Petres.

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  • The rebellion was the more dangerous as the town rabble was on the side of the peasants, and in Buda and other places the cavalry sent against the Kuruczok were unhorsed as they passed through the gates.

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  • He passed the remainder of his life at Wittenberg, braving the perils of war and persecution rather than desert the place dear to him as the home of the Reformation.

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  • As many as one hundred and thirty-seven painters and pictorial students passed through his school, established towards 1440, which became famous all over Italy.

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  • The rest of his life was passed in Verona, Mantua and Rome - chiefly Mantua; Venice and Florence have also been named, but without confirmation.

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  • From Switzerland he passed in six months to England, where he formed acquaintances with other French exiles and with prominent British statesmen, and imbibed a lasting admiration for the English Constitution.

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  • Here palm trees, which had begun to appear singly at Deir, grow in large groves, the olive disappears entirely, and we have definitely passed over from the Syrian to the Babylonian, flora and climate.

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  • Though not exempt from considerable danger, he passed in safety through the troubles of St Bartholomew's eve.

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  • French, the language which the Normans brought with them, did not become an official language in England till after strictly Norman rule had passed away.

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  • The town, which dates from the rlth century, was governed by its own lords till 1248, after which date it passed through the ownership of the counts of Flanders, the dukes of Burgundy, and the sovereigns of Austria and Spain.

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  • One end of a short piece of thin line is passed through one of these holes, and knotted; the other end has spliced to it a hard bone peg which is inserted in the other hole.

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  • But that they are the same is proved by the use of the French word gentilhomme, a word which has pretty well passed out of modern use, but which, as long as it remained in use, never lost its true meaning.

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  • The ducal dignity rarely passed out of a circle of specially old and distinguished families.

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  • Sometimes defendants' speeches passed into literature, e.g.

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  • With an eye to the future, he published their Ratio disciplinae, collected money for the "Hidden Seed" still worshipping in secret in Moravia, and had his son-in-law, Peter Jablonsky, consecrated a bishop, and Peter passed on the succession to his son Daniel Ernest Jablonsky.

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  • On the question of the date a comparison of genealogies of Maori chiefs shows that, up to the beginning of the 10th century, about eighteen generations or probably not much more than five centuries had passed since the first Maori arrivals.

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  • On several occasions they incited the populations of the towns through which they passed against the Jews, and also against the monks who opposed their propaganda.

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  • The pupal stage is passed in an earthen cell, just beneath the surface of the ground.

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  • In this way it is believed that the sub-aqueous cocoon in which the pupal stage is passed becomes filled with air.

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  • He came finally to Eretria, and, with the help of the Thebans and Lygdamis of Naxos, whom he afterwards made ruler of that island, he passed over to Attica and defeated the Athenian forces at the battle of Pallenis or Pellene.

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  • These ordinances must, however, be of a temporary nature, must not infringe the fundamental laws or statutes passed by the two chambers, or change the electoral system, and must be laid upon the table of the Duma at the first opportunity.

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  • During the years 1861 to 1892 the land owned by the nobles decreased 30%, or from 210,000,000 to 150,000,000 acres; during the following four years an additional 2,119,500 acres were sold; and since then the sales have gone on at an accelerated rate, until in 1903 alone close upon 2,000,000 acres passed out of their hands.

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  • This measure, which was endorsed by the third Duma in an act passed on the 21st of December 1908, is calculated to have far-reaching and profound effects upon the rural economy of Russia.

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  • They at once began to conquer the surrounding country in all directions, and before two centuries had passed they had established themselves firmly at Kiev on the Dnieper, invaded.

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  • During this period, which lasted from 1725 to 1762, the male line of the Romanov dynasty became extinct, and the succession passed to various members of the female line, which intermarried with German princes.

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  • On the 14th of June 1909 a bill was passed removing the disabilities hitherto attaching to some 15,000,000 of Old Believers.

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  • So after all his troubles he founded his dynasty firmly, and passed on the crown to his son with a better title.

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  • If this is successfully overcome, and the proposals meet with the Con approval of parliament, the bill is passed and, after securing the Royal Assent, becomes an act of parliament.

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  • When a line has once been inspected and passed, it lies with the company to maintain it in accordance with the standard of efficiency it originally possessed, but no express statutory obligation to do so is imposed upon the company, and whether it does so or not, the Board of Trade cannot interfere.

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  • In 1893 an act was passed by parliament giving the Board power to interfere if or when representations are made to them by or on behalf of any servant or class of servants of a railway company that the hours of work are unduly long, or do not provide sufficient intervals of uninterrupted rest between the periods of duty, or sufficient relief in respect of Sunday duty.

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  • Mention should be made of the mass of general legislation passed, principally by western states, since 1905, in response to a popular demand for lower rates.

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  • The weight required to cause the downward motion is obtained either by means of the material which has to be transported to the bottom of the hill or by water ballast, while to aid and regulate the motion generally steam or electric motors are arranged to act on the main drums, round which the cable is passed with a sufficient number of turns to prevent slipping.

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  • In Hungary and Russia a zone-tariff system is in operation, whereby the charge per mile decreases progressively with the length of the journey, the traveller paying according to the number of zones he has passed through and not simply according to the distance traversed.

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  • The former is often a rich oil-gas, stored in steel reservoirs under the coaches at a pressure of six or seven atmospheres, and passed through a reducing valve to the burners; these used to be of the ordinary fish-tail type, but inverted incandescent mantles are coming into increasing use.

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  • This law, however, did not serve in practice to secure so general a use of power brakes on freight trains as was thought desirable, and another act was passed in 1903 to give the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to prescribe what should be the minimum number of power-braked cars in each train.

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  • A trench was first excavated to the proper depth, then the side walls and arched roof of brick were put in place, earth was filled in behind and over the arch, and the surface of the ground restored, either by paving where streets were followed, or by actually being built over with houses where the lines passed under private property.

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  • In November 1864 it passed with Schleswig to Prussia.

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  • By a natural series of transitions the gift theory became transformed, in the minds of the sacrificers, into the homage theory, which again passed by an easy transition into the renunciation theory.

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  • This pastoral was subsequently in 1786 annexed to the resolutions passed by the reforming synod of Pistoia, and was condemned with eighty-four other propositions by papal bull in 1794.

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  • The cord was drawn tight and the victim ceased to breathe; its spirit passed into the world of the gods.

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