Passed Sentence Examples

The holiday weekend passed pleasantly.

The years passed and almost nothing changed.

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

His mother was very ill and she recently passed away.

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

A full week passed before we had our answer.

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

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

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

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

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

Three weeks passed in this way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nearly two weeks had passed since the killing.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Less than a week later she passed another milestone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dean stuck his head in the room as he passed.

The drinks were passed out and they sat.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

To his surprise, she'd passed out.

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

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

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.

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

Glad she passed your test.

He passed it on his way out of town.

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

He kicked her as he passed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Dean was sure they had not passed an unmarked turn.

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

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

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

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

Her reverie passed quickly and she seemed embarrassed by it.

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

Dean glanced inside as he passed.

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.

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

Dean was afraid she'd passed out.

The churning in his stomach increased as the hours passed.

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.

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

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

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

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

But time passed, and the call never came.

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

A moment passed before he appeared.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A month had passed since he had been stabbed.

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

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

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

Time passed differently in the underworld than the mortal world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He winked as she passed and licked his lips.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Rhyn slapped her on the butt as he passed.

Those at the tables she passed quieted and watched.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The demons passed her around.

Recognition passed over his face.

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

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.

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

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

Six days passed on the ship.

The world was becoming more real as the days passed.

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

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

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

Pillows passed as chairs, and bowls as cups.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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....

Fred married my mother years after dad passed away.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I passed Corday and his sidekick headed this way.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Everyone who passed looked on with awe.

Dinner passed with a good share of awkwardness.

Carmen passed him the pan of meat and vegetables.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The next hour passed as if in a dream.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Dean became concerned when 20 minutes passed.

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

Fred was uncommonly quiet and minutes passed before he spoke.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

July passed into August without any defining moments.

She passed him the roast.

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

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

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

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

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

He squeezed her arm as she passed him.

The images passed through her thoughts again.

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

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

A moment passed, and her frozen breath drifted upwards.

However, if they didn't hurry, Sofi would come back with a child before twenty-four hours passed in the mortal world..

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

She passed below him.

She ceased squirming when her pursuers passed below them.

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

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

There were three women to every one man he passed.

Sirian gave him a cold look as he passed.

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

As she passed, he grinned.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Had she maybe just passed out and hit her head?

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

The one in front of him passed out.

Xander passed his phone back to Ashley.

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

She glanced towards the blocky sign as they passed it.

Ashley asked as she passed him the keys.

He passed off his keys to a valet.

He passed them all onto her.

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

I passed your damn trial?

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.

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."

His early years were passed at Anagni.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.