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  • noun Plural form of passage.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of passage.

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Examples

  • He endeavored to resign himself to his fate by remembering and repeating certain passages from the "Yin Chih Wen" ( "The Tract of the Quiet Way"); but, instead, he kept seeing his dream-garden of meditation and repose.

    THE CHINAGO 2010

  • It was a book about the lyrical and recitative style and structure of certain passages from the Koran.

    IsThatLegal? 2003

  • The group finds support for its practices in passages from the Bible's Book of Acts, among them "All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them" and "Some, however, made fun of them and said, 'They have had too much wine.'"

    Oh, Gods! 2002

  • The group finds support for its practices in passages from the Bible's Book of Acts, among them "All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them" and "Some, however, made fun of them and said, 'They have had too much wine.'"

    Oh, Gods! 2002

  • He endeavored to resign himself to his fate by remembering and repeating certain passages from the "Yin Chih Wen" ( "The Tract of the Quiet Way"); but, instead, he kept seeing his dream-garden of meditation and repose.

    The Chinago 1911

  • He endeavored to resign himself to his fate by remembering and repeating certain passages from the "Yin Chih Wen"

    The Chinago 1909

  • Both of these excerpts come from the letter, and the bolded text within the passages is a cause of particular concern for me.

    Continuing the Counter-Revolution Francis 2007

  • Both of these excerpts come from the letter, and the bolded text within the passages is a cause of particular concern for me.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Francis 2007

  • What I would like to show in these three passages is that Christ was speaking to two specific and different generations when he talked about His second coming.

    An Amazing First Century 2009

  • The steampunk details come through in passages such as this:

    REVIEW: Soulless by Gail Carriger 2010

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