Kicking Horse and Crowsnest

Usage examples of passes.

I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.

A silk band, which goes round the other half, passes through this hole, and the two ends are connected with the axle of a wheel which is turned by someone until the prisoner gives up the ghost, for the confessor, God be thanked!

I never had to learn, since upon all Barsoom is none who can read what passes in the secret chambers of my brain.

I see what passes if I will to summon up the pictures, which is not often.

So Nasta bethought himself of the thirty thousand wild swordsmen who would pour down at his bidding through the northern mountain passes, and no doubt vowed to adorn the gates of Milosis with our heads.

Perhaps, too, unexpected help will arrive, if some ship passes by chance.

A moderate breeze, which passes over twenty-four feet to the second, will give sixteen turns to the sails during a minute, and there is no need of more.

In the old days there were stirring times, when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out to meet them, men and women, the aged and the children too, and waited their coming on the rocks above the passes, that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches.

Looking fixedly at her, he commenced to make passes in front of her, from over the top of her head downward, with each hand in turn.

The Professor made a few more passes and then stopped, and I could see that his forehead was covered with great beads of perspiration.

Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance, Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual.

Faithful to his promise, the good bishop will take you with him about the middle of next year, as he passes through Venice to reach Calabria.

In spite of the impatience of a lover, the first hour of expectation passes rapidly, but the second is mortally long.

I will take care to draw back the curtains over the door so that you will be able to see at your ease all that passes between us.

I suspect that the fellow who passes for her husband is a rascal, and that her pretended melancholy is put on to drive a persistent lover to distraction.