Passage
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The lad from the posting house who came to groom the mare every morning passed through the
passage
with his heavy wooden shoes; there were holes in his blouse; his feet were bare in list slippers.
But she was angered with shame; she felt a wild desire to strike him; she went to open the window in the
passage
and breathed in the fresh air to calm herself.
Sometimes, too, she told him of what she had read, such as a
passage
in a novel, of a new play, or an anecdote of the "upper ten" that she had seen in a feuilleton; for, after all, Charles was something, an ever-open ear, and ever-ready approbation.
As soon as she entered the passage, Emma felt the cold of the plaster fall about her shoulders like damp linen.
Madame Bovary senior, the evening before, passing along the passage, had surprised her in company of a man—a man with a brown collar, about forty years old, who, at the sound of her step, had quickly escaped through the kitchen.
And they parted before the Saint-Herbland
Passage
just as the clock in the cathedral struck half-past eleven.
They heard in the
passage
the sharp noise of a wooden leg on the boards.
In the
passage
downstairs they met the undertaker's men, who were coming in.
'And now,' he said to the youngest boy, 'Master Stanislas Xavier too must set me a
passage
from the Holy Book.'Little Stanislas, swelling with pride, read out to the best of his ability the opening words of a paragraph, and Julien repeated the whole page.
I read you the
passage
from Besenval's _Memoirs_, it is essential in questions of precedence.
There was barely time to overhaul the uniforms which had been used seven years before on the
passage
of a Prince of the Blood.
The dead animals were left lying in the passage, between kitchen and refectory.
'I shall leave the ladder in the corridor, call the man and send him on an errand.''Remember to have some excuse ready in case the man notices the ladder when he passes it in the passage.''Yes, my angel,' said Madame de Renal as she gave him a kiss.
The
passage
was now cleared, Julien was free to enter.
The Holy Scriptures teach us in more than one
passage
the way to make an end of tyrants.'(Here followed several Latin quotations.)
That evening, as he looked over the original text of the letter which he had copied the night before, he very soon came to the fatal
passage
where the young Russian spoke of London and Richmond.
The following morning at nine o'clock, when Julien came down from his prison to enter the great hall of the Law Courts, it was with the utmost difficulty that the gendarmes succeeded in clearing a
passage
through the immense crowd that packed the courtyard.
As the cry was not repeated, everyone turned back to look at Julien, for whom the gendarmes were trying to clear a
passage
through the crowd.
A
passage
from Rotrou's _Venceslas_ entered his head suddenly.
K. let himself be led by him, and it turned out that there was - surprisingly in a densely packed crowd of people moving to and fro - a narrow
passage
which may have been the division between two factions; this idea was reinforced by the fact that in the first few rows to the left and the right of him there was hardly any face looking in his direction, he saw nothing but the backs of people directing their speech and their movements only towards members of their own side.
He looked round and listened to find out if there might be any disturbance from any of the surrounding rooms, everywhere was quiet, the only thing to be heard was the conversation from the dining room and Mrs. Grubach's voice from the
passage
leading to the kitchen.
In a doorway at the far end of a narrow
passage
stood a man in his dressing gown, giving them this information in an extremely quiet voice.
The
passage
of a stranger, with an appearance of somewhat doubtful character, and mounted on an animal which, although unfurnished with any of the ordinary trappings of war, partook largely of the bold and upright carriage that distinguished his rider, gave rise to many surmises among the gazing inmates of the different habitations; and in some instances, where conscience was more than ordinarily awake, to no little alarm.
Frances moved lightly before them, and, with an averted face, she held open the door for their
passage
to the bed; it was only as the major touched her garments, on entering the room, that she ventured to raise her mild blue eyes to his face.
On entering the
passage
for that purpose, he met the operator who had so dexterously dressed his arm, advancing to the room of the wounded officer.
"What think you?" he whispered, on reaching the
passage.
The savor of preparation which had been noticed by Captain Lawton began to increase within the walls of the cottage; certain sweet-smelling odors, that arose from the subterranean territories of Caesar, gave to the trooper the most pleasing assurances that his olfactory nerves, which on such occasions were as acute as his eyes on others, had faithfully performed their duty; and for the benefit of enjoying the passing sweets as they arose, the dragoon so placed himself at a window of the building, that not a vapor charged with the spices of the East could exhale on its
passage
to the clouds, without first giving its incense to his nose.
The apartment of Miss Singleton communicated with the room occupied by the sisters, through a private door, as well as through the ordinary
passage
of the house; this door was partly open, and Frances moved towards it, with the benevolent intention of ascertaining the situation of her guest, when the surprised girl saw her whom she had thought to be sleeping, not only awake, but employed in a manner that banished all probability of present repose.
While speaking, the surgeon raised the limbs in question to a nearly horizontal position, an attitude which really appeared to bid defiance to anything like a
passage
for himself through the defile; but the trooper, disregarding this ocular proof of the impossibility of the movement, cried hastily,-"Here was nothing to stop you, man; I could leap a platoon through, boot and thigh, without pricking with a single spur.
Certain significant signs which were embraced at a glance by the prying gaze of the trooper, at once made him a master of their secret; and he was about to retire as silently as he had advanced, when his companion, pushing himself through the passage, abruptly entered the room.
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