What is "passed away"

Usage examples of "passed away".

Given time enough, all things passed away: the sky and the earth and the people caught between.

All this so quickly, that her exclamation and her dead condition seem to have passed away like the features of those long-preserved dead bodies sometimes opened up in tombs, which, struck by the air like lightning, vanish in a breath.

This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Beatrice Friesner, who passed away in the autumn of 1999.

His father had passed away a few years ago in an expensive rest home in Arizona.

While they passed away before my presidency, their sons both served in my administration.

My brother was born with lung disease and passed away when he was nine.

And it made a man's heart sorry for the good fathers of yore who had taught them to dig and to reap, to read and to sing, who had given them European mass-books which they still preserve and study in their cottages, and who had now passed away from all authority and influence in that land - to be succeeded by greedy land-thieves and sacrilegious pistol-shots.

The fatigue of the day's journey passed away during this ascent, which lasted nearly an hour.

It was Maurice who, in the poet's 101st year, secured the adoption of his work as a textbook in the schools of the empire, an honour which proved a fatal tax on the aged rhetorician's emotions, since he passed away peacefully at his home near the church of St.

The Earl stood looking grimly after them from under his shaggy eyebrows, until they passed away behind the yew-trees, appeared again upon the terrace behind, entered the open doors of the women's house, and were gone.

The five years passed away unheeded, uncalculated, unregretted by Ulpius.