Thesaurus / pass
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOUThe riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSBut men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME II OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLORMadame and myself had just been regretting that we should have to pass the evening in this miserable hole of a town.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSHe shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and evil among men.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSAs he was toiling slowly up a narrow, rocky pass, he suddenly saw an Indian's head peering over the ledge.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONAnd this college course I have sketched should, in the modern state, pass insensibly into adult mental activities.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSLet me illustrate: Last week, month, or year you saw a military procession pass along the streets.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)So it came to pass that another change came into his life, hence another epoch in the unusual life was his.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXTom lingered a few minutes, watching them pass along the verandah to the room beyond.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODWORDS RELATED TO PASS
- arc
- bend
- circle
- circulate
- circumduct
- come around
- corner
- cut
- eddy
- go around
- go round
- ground
- gyrate
- gyre
- hang a left
- hang a right
- incline
- loop
- make a left
- make a right
- move in a circle
- negotiate
- orbit
- oscillate
- pass
- pass around
- pirouette
- pivot
- roll
- rotate
- round
- spin
- sway
- swing
- swivel
- take a bend
- twirl
- twist
- vibrate
- weave
- wheel
- whirl
- wind
- yaw
- abnegation
- ban
- choice
- cold shoulder
- declension
- declination
- defiance
- denial
- disallowance
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- discountenancing
- disfavor
- dissent
- enjoinment
- exclusion
- forbidding
- interdiction
- knockback
- negation
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- nonconsent
- option
- pass
- prohibition
- proscription
- rebuff
- refutation
- regrets
- rejection
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiation
- repulse
- repulsion
- reversal
- thumbs-down
- veto
- withholding
- writ
- axis
- change
- climacteric
- climax
- contingency
- crisis
- critical mass
- critical moment
- critical period
- critical point
- crossing
- crossroads
- crucial moment
- crucial occurrence
- crucial period
- crunch
- crux
- culmination
- cusp
- decisive moment
- defining moment
- development
- emergency
- exigency
- high noon
- hinge
- juncture
- kairotic moment
- moment of truth
- nexus
- pass
- peak
- peripeteia
- pinch
- pivot
- pivotal moment
- point of no return
- race against time
- rising action
- shift
- strait
- transition
- turn of the tide
- twist
- when push comes to shove
- zero hour
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