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    This passage is adapted from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man ©1952.
    passage = short part of a longer written work
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    "There's another passage in a different book I'd like to share with you," he said.  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    "Need for a purpose" had been written in McCandless's hand in the margin above the passage.  (source)
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    When he spoke, he somehow always managed to sound like he was reading a passage from Dickens.  (source)
    passage = short part of a longer written work
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    In Mrs. Polster's class, they memorized passages from The Book of the City of Ember every week.  (source)
    passages = short parts of a longer written work
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    Mr. Birkway was desperately trying to explain what he had enjoyed about that passage.  (source)
    passage = short part of a longer written work
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    Since the disastrous episode of the pixies, Professor Lockhart had not brought live creatures to class. Instead, he read passages from his books to them, and sometimes reenacted some of the more dramatic bits.  (source)
    passages = short parts of longer written works
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    Every child was made to stand at the front of the room and read from a passage the teacher gave them.  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.  (source)
    passages = short parts of a longer written work
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    He read the passage aloud a second time, then a third, then a fourth.  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    Louie wanted to give him a religious eulogy but didn't know how, so he recited disjointed passages that he remembered from movies, ending with a few words about committing the body to the sea.  (source)
    passages = short parts of longer written works
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    And once I have taken out this little passage of the sixth of June, where shall you have me put it?  (source)
    passage = a short part of a longer written work
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    What bothered Valentine most was when her column got syndicated into several other regional newsnets, and Father started reading it and quoting from it at table. "Finally, a man with some sense," he said. Then he quoted some of the passages Valentine hated worst in her own work.  (source)
    passages = short parts of longer written works
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    The Emerald Tablet is a direct passage to the Soul of the World.  (source)
    passage = a way to get from one place to another
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    He was halfway down the passage when he tripped headlong over something lying on the floor.  (source)
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    The sergeant paced up and down the passage of soldiers.  (source)
    passage = corridor
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    A faint haze of light shone in the passage ahead of them.  (source)
    passage = corridor
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    "Are there any secret passages?" said George.  (source)
    passages = ways of getting from one place to another
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    The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon.  (source)
    passage = corridors or hallways
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    Going up the Cliffs could hardly be done, she thought; and no one had ever mentioned secret passages through them.†  (source)
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    This time, as he lay basking in the wonderful warmth, he felt the passage of time.  (source)
    passage = passing
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    That there are no secret passages to strength, no magic words.†  (source)
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    But it was the passage of time that worried them most.  (source)
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    Uncle Abdullah began his speech in Persian, read passages from the Koran in Arabic, then translated everything into English.†  (source)
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    The slow journey up the Inside Passage unfolded in a gauzy reverie of anticipation.  (source)
    Passage = way to get from one place to another
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    In her copy of Bread for the Journey, a collection of meditations by Henri Nouwen, several of the passages Cassie marked refer to relationships with family members and friends.†  (source)
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