Passing
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Pandemics are not just
passing
tragedies of sickness and death.
Involuntarily he began to snatch at every
passing
caprice, mistaking it for a desire and a purpose.
'Dear me, we can't talk in the corridor!' said Levin, looking crossly at a man who was just
passing
along with jerky steps, ostensibly on business of his own.
The evident impatience of the Member of the Council did not trouble Karenin, who left off expounding his project only when the Councillor, profiting by a royal personage's passing, slipped away.
I meet Steve in passing, but he can't tell me about the children.
All she saw when driving up to the house and
passing
through it, and now in her room, gave her the impression of abundance and elegance and of that novel European luxury which she had read about in English novels, but had never yet seen in Russia in the country.
As there was still plenty of time before dinner, and the weather was beautiful, several different ways of
passing
the next two hours were proposed.
As he was
passing
through the corridor behind the gallery he came across a dispirited High School pupil with bloodshot eyes pacing up and down.
Passing
first through a room in which were several screens, and then a room on the right in which was a partition and a fruit-stall, Levin, having overtaken and passed an old man who was walking slowly, entered the noisy and crowded dining-room.
Passing
through a small dining-room, panelled in dark wood, Oblonsky and Levin entered the study across the soft carpet.
Passing
ever backwards from the memorably offensive words of the quarrel to their cause, she at last got back to the beginning of their conversation.
The stationmaster asked her in
passing
whether she was going on.
Quickly and lightly descending the steps that led from the water-tank to the rails, she stopped close to the
passing
tram.
'There he is!' said the Princess, pointing to Vronsky who, in a long overcoat and a black broad-brimmed hat, was
passing
with his mother on his arm.
The rain was already
passing
and it was growing lighter when Levin reached them.
'Oh, you've not gone?' suddenly asked Kitty, who was
passing
that way to the drawing-room.
She filled her train faster than he could, with quick small regular strokes of the shovel; she afterwards pushed it to the inclined way with a single slow push, without a hitch, easily
passing
under the low rocks.
Doubtless a captain was
passing
beneath.
He was dressed like them, and like them smeared with coal; to make them respect him he exhibited a dare-devil courage,
passing
through the most difficult spots and always first when landslips or fire-damp explosions occurred.
Now the subterranean life rumbled around them with a continual
passing
of captains, the come and go of the trains drawn by trotting horses.
The curé of Montsou, Abbé Joire, was passing, holding up his cassock, with the delicate air of a fat, well-nourished cat afraid of wetting its fur.
The potatoes were cooked, and the coffee, thickened by a good half of chicory, was
passing
through the percolator with a singing noise of large drops.
From the back she had got down to the buttocks and was pushing into the folds, not leaving any part of the body without
passing
over it, making him shine like her three saucepans on Saturdays after a big clean.
Then, after
passing
the Voreux, and at last free to go and dine at Rasseneur's, he continued to follow them, accompanying them to the settlement, where he remained standing in the shade for a quarter of an hour, waiting until Chaval left Catherine to enter her home.
And every time the same meetings took place: a captain lighting up the faces of the
passing
workmen, Father Mouque leading a horse, Bébert conducting the snorting Bataille, Jeanlin running behind the train to close the ventilation doors, and big Mouquette and lean Lydie pushing their trams.
Someone who was
passing
warned Pierron that his daughter Lydie was sleeping at the door, across the pavement.
And they all went back together,
passing
for the last time through the fair, where the frying-pans were coagulating, and by the estaminets, from which the last glasses were flowing in a stream towards the middle of the road.
Fists were clenched and violent words were
passing
from mouth to mouth.
Above the form on the left, a yellow placard was stuck up, quite fresh against the smoky grey of the plaster, and it was in front of this that the men had been constantly
passing
all the morning.
And on seeing the van, which was
passing
before the church, she grew faint and pale.
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