Thesaurus / come to pass

come to pass

synonyms for come to pass

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In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.

SENSE OF OBLIGATIONHENRY MAXWELL DEMPSEY (AKA HARRY HARRISON)

Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.

He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.

CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES

Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.

This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"

The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985