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Passageway   /pˈæsədʒwˌeɪ/  /pˈæsɪdʒwˌeɪ/   Listen
Passageway

noun
1.
A passage between rooms or between buildings.
2.
A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass.  Synonym: passage.






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"Passageway" Quotes from Famous Books



... rifle cocked, stopped by the opening. The fissure widened immediately into a narrow passageway. High, high above them rolled a strip of pink and blue morning sky. Before them was a seemingly interminable crevice along which the squaws scuttled. As Rhoda watched them they disappeared around a ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow

... she'd found out, the lady brigandess had, that the old man's gang had run across a bricked-up passageway down in one corner of the basement, a kind of All-Goods-Must-Be-Delivered-Here gate that had been thrown into the discards. Of course, they'd gone to work to open it up, and they'd got as far as some iron bars that called for a hack-saw. ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... of the Tory maid, and hoping that the part I had played in the matter of the toast might come to her ears and cause her to give me a smile at our next meeting, I heard the sound of footsteps coming down the passageway. ...
— The Tory Maid • Herbert Baird Stimpson

... preach to the prisoners. I said I would be very glad to go. There was no chapel in connection with that prison, and I was to preach to them in their cells. I had to stand at a little iron railing and talk down a great, long narrow passageway, to some three or four hundred of them, I suppose, all out of sight. It was pretty difficult work; I never preached to the bare walls before. When it was over I thought I would like to see to whom I had been preaching, ...
— Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations - Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangilist • Dwight L. Moody

... space behind it, and pushed open the door between the mirrors leading to the back room. This, too, was empty. He called out—there was no response. He walked through a second door opening on an arcaded passageway toward the kitchen—not a soul was in sight. There was a low fire in the kitchen stove, but Mrs. McAlpin had apparently gone home for a while. Walking back toward the office, he remembered the covered way leading to a patio, which in turn opened ...
— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman


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