passant

• Most pianists play them over en passant, notice here and there repetitions, lengthinesses, apparent carelessnesses, and then lay them aside. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
• In case there should be an opportunity of paying Weymar a modest compliment en passant, give free vent to your reminiscences with the necessary kid gloves. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
• Next day to Chester, having seen friend Dickenson en passant (the daughters not visible, on account of the loss of their mother, who died last summer ), and breakfasted in Philadelphia on the morning of the 1st of February. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
• I hope John Bull is not so devoted to gilded foreign fictions as to spurn the unadorned truth from one of his downright countrywomen: and let me advise him en passant, not to treat us beauties of native growth with indifference at home; for we readily find compensation in the regard, patronage, and admiration of every nation in Europe. —  The Memoirs of Louis XV/XVI, entire
• En passant, as the French say - fleetingly, lightly, incompletely. —  Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

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