"Passer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and gave orders that this paper should be nailed upon the front door of the house where every passer-by might read it. ...
— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard
... substantial advantages. The great city itself was half an education to him. He learned French in the morning before going to business. He bought cheap and good little books which are thrust upon the sight of every passer-by in cities, and, particularly, he obtained a clear insight into the business of his uncle, who was a wholesale dealer ...
— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton
... effort, finished undressing, and got into bed. Down below in the quiet, narrow street measured footsteps approached the house, then died away unhurried and firm, as if the passer-by had started to pace out all eternity, from gas-lamp to gas-lamp in a night without end; and the drowsy ticking of the old clock on the landing became distinctly audible in ...
— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad
... is the weather that makes things spring up," remarked a passer-by casually to an old gentleman seated on ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... reached the bottom of the unsheltered slope, she looked about for a place of refuge. She found it in a clump of trees and bushes growing by the roadside; and creeping in amongst them, our Madelon's slim little figure was very well concealed amongst the shadows from any passer-by. Eight o'clock had struck as she left the convent. "I will wait till nine," she resolved. "An hour will not be very long, and it will be quite dark by that time." And so she did wait, with the most determined impatient patience, through an hour that seemed as if it ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter
|
