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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
pass .
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Examples
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Recieving Hannah's letter this morning, I went down immediately to Dr Young and while I was there a most violent thunderstorm pass'd over this great City, with a tremendous fall of hail and rain.
Letter 169 2009
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We could hardly think that you was serious in this after all that has pass'd Between you,
Letter 45 2009
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I think we should send them, 6 months have pass'd, or nearly, since we had hers.
Letter 50 2009
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The spring had pass'd over, 'twas summer nae mair,
Letter 236 2009
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Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds, as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles?
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Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds, as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles?
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Robin alludes to an answer to his rhetorical question when he recounts a meeting in which he "'pass'd Old Hodge's cottage in the glade'" with Nelly and "wish'd both cot and Nelly made for me '" (60).
'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790) 2008
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We may imagine how they spent the rest of the Night; the least Part of which, we may suppose, pass'd in Sleep.
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Thus things pass'd some time in Silence and Secrecy, 'till my Father had an Opportunity to marry me to a wealthy Citizen; wherewith he press'd me very earnestly to comply.
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Thus Things pass'd quietly for a while: At last he found an Opportunity to come along with his Mother to make me a Visit or two; of which by the
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