Passes

Examples

• Such is the process by which the youth passes from the necessary pleasures to the unnecessary. Plato. The Republic.
• I think it would be advisable in making the change to leave Hancock where he is until Warren passes him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow; yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• When light passes from air into water, or from any transparent substance into another of different density, its direction is changed, and it emerges along an entirely new path (Fig. 64). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• What passes with Eladio? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The latter is the element that we breathe and which passes into the body, there to combine with the impurities resulting from the various life activities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The ray of light from A at the bottom of the object passes through the lens at an angle, and continues in a straight line until interrupted by the film or plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When a ray of light passes from water or glass into air, the refracted ray is bent away from the perpendicular so that the angle of refraction is greater than the angle of incidence. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• One edition passes into another, and that into a third, and so on, till we come to that volume we peruse at present. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• As the visitor passes down through the machine shop, he particularly notices the sanitary conditions of the plant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The ice in the can is then loosened by warm water, and the block dumped through the door into a chute, whence it passes into the storage room below, seen in Fig. 298. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He is known by all the poor people about, who never fail to take their hats off, as he passes, with great respect. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The only army Santa Anna had to protect his capital and the mountain passes west of Vera Cruz, was the one he had with him confronting General Taylor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A series of turbines are set one after the other on the same axis, so that each takes steam from the preceding one, and passes it on to the next. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• So conversely it will be with the northern hemisphere, while the southern passes through a glacial period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery. Plato. The Republic.
• Or, in less extreme cases, there is recourse to idle amusement; to anything which passes time with immediate agreeableness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What passes with thee, old one? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This cannot be removed by water alone, but if soap is used and a generous lather is applied to the skin, the dirt is cut and passes from the body into the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If the vacuum passes over water, the water may rise in it in a body or column to near the height of thirty-two feet. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The air passes through it before entering the working cylinder, and becomes heated to 450°. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The heat given out by the condensing steam passes into the surrounding air and warms the room. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Who passes by this road so late? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The air, entering, rises within, and carries up dust, leaves, and even heavier bodies that happen in its way, as the eddy or whirl passes over land. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The water thus discharged passes through a diversion channel in the old bed of the Chagres River, generating, by an enormous electric plant, the power necessary for operating the locks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I am as well bred as the Earl's grand-daughter, for all her fine pedigree; and yet every one passes me by here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The most abundant matter that passes over with it is tar. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• At 33 feet the ball passes through 10? inches of spruce, at 490 through 5 inches, and its extreme range is 3,000 feet, or more than half a mile. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The gas is then conveyed along another tube into the purifier, H, filled with lime and water, and it thence passes into the gas-holder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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