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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of repass.

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Examples

  • I repassed, in my memory, my whole life; my quiet happiness while residing with my family in Geneva, the death of my mother, and my departure for Ingolstadt.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • I repassed, in my memory, my whole life; my quiet happiness while residing with my family in Geneva, the death of my mother, and my departure for Ingolstadt.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • They had it indeed to themselves, save for the lads of the village, who suddenly found pressing business in the lobby, and passed and repassed the parlor door, open-mouthed with wonder.

    Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

  • He hung still as the guard passed and repassed, and then continued his aching descent, into this blessedly remote and dark corner of the ward.

    A River So Long 2010

  • They were, however, protected by the manners of the time; and such were the immunities they possessed by the rights of chivalry, that nothing was more rare than to hear of such errant damsels sustaining injury or wrong, and they passed and repassed safely, where armed travellers would probably have encountered a bloody opposition.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • They now repassed the plank, and were conducted to an angle, in which a bench was placed close to the chinese rails, which was somewhat shaded by

    Camilla 2008

  • The voice of the soldiers, too, as they passed and repassed, was loud and cheerful, carrying with its very tone an assurance of high and excited courage, and an omen of approaching victory.

    The Talisman 2008

  • He did not even deign to look upon an object, which few could have passed and repassed so often without bestowing on it a transient glance.

    The Monastery 2008

  • I urged that not only the RAC and other lobbyists in Washington but people in local congregations as well begin pressing for this bill, and insisting it be repassed with every comma intact if the President vetoes it.

    Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Iraq & Beyond: Unmaking the Idol of Violence 2008

  • These, and many other fabled practices of a no less agreeable nature, and all having some reference to the circumstances in which he was placed, passed and repassed in quick succession through the mind of Will Marks, and adding a shadowy dread to that distrust and watchfulness which his situation inspired, rendered it, upon the whole, sufficiently uncomfortable.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

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