V. be past &c. adj.; have expired &c. adj., have run its course, have had its day; pass; pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off; lapse, blow over.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
Christ promoted peace by giving us assurance that a line of communication can be established between the Father above and the child below.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
eī nōn intulimus sed prō patriā bellum gessimus.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
The floor of the house shines like a mirror, curtains of piña and husi festoon the doorways, from the windows hang lanterns covered with glass or with paper, pink, blue, green, or red.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
Pyotr Petrovitch began getting up from his chair.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
16 Negant sē iniūriās tibi intulisse, sed prō patriā bellum gessisse.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
29 [ 66 ] Yet straight on through the period of General Merritt’s sojourn in the Islands, which began July 25th, and terminated August 29th, we find no protest ordered by Washington, and we further find the purpose of the President as announced in the instructions to Merritt, “The powers of the military occupant are absolute and supreme ” throughout the Islands, not only not communicated to the Filipino people, but deliberately suppressed from the proclamation published by General Merritt pursuant to those instructions.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount
3 sg. -ēode to go forth, advance, proceed, pass by, go away, go on, precede, succeed , Chr, Mk .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
A2S; b5] pass, pass by, go by.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Anything depending on the organized medicine is hard to put over; though individual doctors may break away, in the long run most medical progress proceeds by group action.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger
She made it very long and pretty, pink, blue, green, red, yellow—and again she repeated the order of colors pink, blue, green, red, yellow.
— from The Good Crow's Happy Shop by Patten Beard
Let it go to make another stone in that infernal pathway proverbially paved by good intentions....
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
“Banksian Pine ( Pinus Banksiana ) grows on the sandy plains along Stone river, and northward, on dry sandy ridges, as far as Selwyn and Theitaga lakes, but it does not extend as far north as either spruce or larch.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers
To the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, which is in the middle of the wall of Aurelian, and forms the back of a very pretty Protestant burial ground, the greatest number of those who have been buried there being of course English.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV by Charles Greville
He proposed to discourage private prostitution by giving special privileges and immunities to brothels by Act of Parliament.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
Rod said he liked bad plays played by good actors—for instance, Duse in La Dame aux Camélias ; Brewster said he liked good plays done by bad actors—Musset played by refined amateurs; I said I liked good plays acted by good actors.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring
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