"Passee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... faict instance que, en statut de la dicte obedience la dicte dispense soit inseree, ce que le dict cardinal ne veult admettre, a ce que ne semble la dicte obedience avoir este rachetee; et est passee si avant la dicte difficulte que le dict cardinal a declare qu'il retourneroit plutot a Rome et delaisseront la chose imparfaite que consentir a chose contre l'auctorite dudict S. Siege, et de si grande prejudice."—Renard to the Emperor, December: ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude
... dans son eveche de l'autre cote du Rhin. La sa noble conduite fit oublier les torts de sa vie passee," ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge
... her forward into the very highest society—never were such delightful parties—the best music—every lion to be met with—Lady Martindale herself at once a study for beauty, and a dictionary of arts and sciences—Mrs. Nesbit so agreeable. Ah! you cannot judge of her quite, she is passee, broken, and aged, and, poor thing! is querulous at feeling the loss of her past powers; but there used to be a brilliance and piquancy in her conversation that has become something very ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... time she spoke and puffing the smoke right into the faces of the audience. She sang a very lively song, the words of which her husband had found time to write for her during the afternoon. It began, "C'est a Paris, qu' ca s'est passe." She cracked her whip and stamped her feet, and must have been very droll, to judge from the screams of delight in the audience. The song was full of quips and puns, and pleased so much that she had to ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
... in its selfe strange, since every naturall effect has an equall dependance upon its cause, and with the like necessity doth follow from it, so that 'tis our ignorance which makes things appeare so, and hence it comes to passe that many more evident truths seeme incredible to such who know not the causes of things: you may as soone perswade some Country peasants that the Moone is made of greene Cheese (as wee say) as that 'tis bigger than his Cart-wheele, since both seeme ...
— The Discovery of a World in the Moone • John Wilkins
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