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But from my very surficial vantage point as an occasional passer-through, it would appear that life in the DTES is more or less unchanged here on the cusp of the opening ceremonies.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » The New York Times Arrives in the Downtown Eastside 2010
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They begin to take you seriously as a person, and not just a passer-through/tourist.
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She didn't especially care one way or the other as some new passer-through huffed and puffed atop her.
Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001
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She didn't especially care one way or the other as some new passer-through huffed and puffed atop her.
Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001
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She didn't especially care one way or the other as some new passer-through huffed and puffed atop her.
Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001
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The opinion of any mere passer-through a country is always less valuable than that of an intelligent man who dwells and works among the people, and who possesses both insight and sympathy.
The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Another form of craft that we sometimes encounter, is an arrangement by which the gate hangs so heavily on its latch, that the would-be passer-through has to lift up the gate before he or she can open it, and often at an expenditure of strength of which many women are incapable.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873
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Thus you reach Toulouse, a noble city, of which it ill befits a passer-through to speak.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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