Pas

Examples

• Besides, no good-living woman--much less a purehappy spirit--would trouble amity like ours n'est-il pas vrai? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Nest-ce pas que c'est beau? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• However, Lord Graham is rather reserved; _mais ne méprisez pas les personnes froides; elles ont leurs bons c?tés. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Je suis sa reinemais il n'est pas mon roi. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mais, Mademoiselle, asseyez-vous, et ne bougez pas--entendez-vous? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He did this at first with pleasure, indeed with unconcealed exultationcondescending to say that he believed I was bonne et pas trop faible (i. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Pas encore, said Miss Ferguson. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Le marmot n'a rien, nest-ce pas? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Les penseurs, les hommes profonds et passionnés ne sont pas à mon go?t. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Est-ce que je ne puis pas prendrie une seule de ces fleurs magnifiques, mademoiselle? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• However, I only said--Cela ne me regarde pas: je ne m'en soucie pas; and presently added--May I go, Monsieur? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Even Mrs. Bute Crawley, the Rector's wife, refused to visit her, as she said she would never give the pas to a tradesman's daughter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Tu ne déje?nes pas ce matin? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was easy to say, Ne bougez pas; but how could I help it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Vous ne voulez pas de moi pour voisin, he growled: vous vous donnez des airs de caste; vous me traitez en paria; he scowled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The palliative measures we may pass by quickly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Laura had certainly written to say she would pass the night under the roof of her old friend--but she had never been near the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Houston lived some distance from the town and generally went home late at night, having to pass through a dark cypress swamp over a corduroy road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That may pass in a pensionnat, he pronounced. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Signs of intelligence seemed to pass between them, and Pitt spoke with her on subjects on which he never thought of discoursing with Lady Jane. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The door-keeper will pass the note to Mr. Lorry, and do you make any gesture that will attract Mr. Lorry's attention, and show him where you stand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I thought you were gone to Brussels or Versailles, when I did not see you pass in your carriage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Being with Celia and the baby will be the best thing in the world for her, and will pass away the time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We go forward prepared to repair it after we have stormed the pass. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• No officer is ever to enter into my house again, nor even to pass through the village. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Pass that torch slowly along these walls, that I may see them, said Defarge to the turnkey. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I only need to pass these guards and I can do it, he said at last. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• These two years, said he, will pass swiftly, and it will be the last delay that will oppose itself to your happiness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I had never known him to pass the garden-gate before, but on this occasion he came into the house. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Editor: Manuel