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Passenger   /pˈæsəndʒər/   Listen
noun
passenger  n.  
1.
A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
2.
A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.
Passenger falcon (Zool.), a migratory hawk.






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"Passenger" Quotes from Famous Books



... travelling companions, with their unpleasant predilection for a vitiated atmosphere, and her thoughts wandered idly to the consideration of the man in the corner, to whom she was obviously an equally unwelcome fellow-passenger. ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

... later, returned to the smoking-room (he, too, had caught the splash of the sea, the spray drenching the rail), the Bum Actor crossed over and took the seat beside him. The Texan was the only passenger who had spoken to him since he came aboard, and he had already begun to feel lonely. This time he started the conversation by brushing the salt ...
— A List To Starboard - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith

... poetical readers with beautiful idealisms of moral excellence; aware that, until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life, which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust, although they would bear the harvest of his happiness." It was for want of virtue, as Mary Wollstonecraft reflected, writing sadly after the Terror, that the French Revolution had failed. The lesson of all the horrors ...
— Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle • H. N. Brailsford

... picturesque expressions of his native speech, "that this is the sleeping time of the sun! Even at the Hardanger Fjord it is dark and silent,—the falling streams freeze with cold on their way; and if it is so at the Hardanger, what will it be at the Alten? And there is no passenger ship going to Christiania or Bergen ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli

... is not a passenger ship," he said. "That will have to be your berth." He pointed to a part of the saloon settee which was about six feet forward and above the propeller. "A sou'-wester washed out our only spare cabin, comin' in. There you are." He began to climb the ladder out of it again, but stopped, ...
— London River • H. M. Tomlinson


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