What is "passer"

Usage examples of "passer".

The commander had been told by two distinguished surgeons one in the service and one now teaching at Johns Hopkins that they preferred Florence Horter as a gas passer over anyone else they knew, including all the doctors of medicine who chose to specialize in that branch of the healing arts.

Chaberton jeta son pardessus sur son epaule, fit passer sa canne de dessous son bras dans sa main, et se dirigea vers la sortie, suivi du client decide a ne pas le lacher.

I should have set this bird down as a blue rock thrush or passero solitario, for I know these birds breed yearly on the Sacro Monte, and no bird sings so sweetly as they do, but we are expressly told that Caimi did not reach Varallo till the end of the year, and the passeri solitarii have all migrated by the end of August.

Berchund venait, dit-on, passer chaque annee le saint temps du careme dans cette solitude.

It sometimes tricked him, however, for passers occasionally kept looking at the huge Ashanti through curiosity.

Je vis passer, en habit de hussard, au grand galop sur un barbe, un de ces hommes en qui finissait un monde, le duc de Lauzun.

Danton et Faustine, doubla le royaume des ludions puis marcha vers la droite pour passer devant nous.

I scantly knew him : for fortune had brought him into such estate and calamity, that he verily seemed as a common begger that standeth in the streets to crave the benevolence of the passers by.

These girls wore wide hoops, being obliged to put on breeches, as otherwise they would have interested the passers by in an unseemly manner.

Posthof, and with their shoulders against the overhanging cliff, spread for the passing crowd a lure of Viennese jewelry in garnets, opals, amethysts, and the like, and of such Bohemian playthings as carrot-eating rabbits, worsted-working cats, dancing-bears, and peacocks that strut about the feet of the passers and expand their iridescent tails in mimic pride.

He stretched out toward the passers two fingers of blessing and was unaware of the sparrow which had lighted on them and was giving him the effect of offering it to the public admiration.

Weimar was as much awake at that hour as at any of the twenty-four, and the tranquillity of its streets, where he encountered a few passers several blocks apart, was their habitual mood.

There had been setting of caps, without number, ay, and pulling them too, an the truth were known among the fair Stellas and Clarissas, the Daphnes and Dorises, of Charlemont, but, though Stevens was sufficiently considerate of the claims of each, so far as politeness demanded it, and contrived to say pleasant things, pour passer le temps, with all of them, it was very soon apparent to the most sanguine, that the imperial beauties and imperious mind of Margaret Cooper had secured the conquest for herself.

So fashioned a Porch with rare deuice,Archt ouer head with an embracing vine,Whose bounches hanging downe, seemed to enticeAll passers by, to tast their lushious wine,And did themselues into their hands incline,As freely offering to be gathered:Some deepe empurpled as the Hyacint,Some as the Rubine, laughing sweetly red,Some like faire Emeraudes, not yet well ripened.

Cellesci se dissolvent ensuite en grande partie, mais, avant de passer à l'état liquide, elles tendent à se briser en petits fragments transversaux.