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  • Et quand tu repasses par ces rivages fais-moi signe.

    La Marseillaise 2009

  • The earth was but a day old, having been new the night before at twelve; and two days must elapse before its crescent, freed from the solar rays, would serve as a clock to the Selenites, as in its rotary movement each of its points after twenty-four hours repasses the same lunar meridian.

    Round the Moon 2003

  • The evil man passes and repasses this Cape with no concern, for he has already been tested.

    Hawaii Michener, James 1959

  • As he passes and repasses me, I try to read his countenance.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • There passes and repasses her, now contemplating her with a curious stare, then muttering inaudibly, a man of portly figure, in mask and cowl.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • Decomposition is actually a process of repeated digestions as organic matter passes and repasses through the intestinal tracts of soil animals numerous times or is attacked by the digestive enzymes secreted by microorganisms.

    Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon

  • Ilian ranks and Turnus 'columns, suddenly shrinking to the shape of a small bird that often sits late by night on tombs or ruinous roofs, and vexes the darkness with her cry, in such change of likeness the monster shrilly passes and repasses before Turnus' face, and her wings beat restlessly on his shield.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • If Orpheus could call up his wife's ghost in the strength of his Thracian lyre and the music of the strings, -- if Pollux redeemed his brother by exchange of death, and passes and repasses so often, -- why make mention of great Theseus, why of

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • She went out, and in a few moments was part of the crowd which passes and repasses nightly from the Rotunda up the broad pathways of

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • [A station POLICEMAN, very square and uniformed, passes and repasses.]

    The Little Man John Galsworthy 1900

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