All 26 Uses of
passage
in
Great Expectations
- Having his hand in, Mr. Wopsle finished off with a most terrifically snarling passage from Richard the Third, and seemed to think he had done quite enough to account for it when he added, "—as the poet says."
Chpt 10 (definition 1)passage = a short part of a longer written work
- It came of my lifting up my own eyes from a task I was poring at— writing some passages from a book, to improve myself in two ways at once by a sort of stratagem—and seeing Biddy observant of what I was about.
Chpt 17 (definition 1)passages = short parts of a longer written work
- Now, follow that passage with your eye, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that he was instructed by his legal advisers wholly to reserve his defence?
Chpt 18 (definition 1)passage = a short part of a longer written work
- And now I ask you what you say to the conscience of that man who, with that passage before his eyes, can lay his head upon his pillow after having pronounced a fellow-creature guilty, unheard?
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- Of the conduct of the worldly minded Pumblechook while this was doing, I desire to say no more than it was all addressed to me; and that even when those noble passages were read which remind humanity how it brought nothing into the world and can take nothing out, and how it fleeth like a shadow and never continueth long in one stay, I heard him cough a reservation of the case of a young gentleman who came unexpectedly into large property.
Chpt 35 (definition 1)passages = short parts of longer written works
- I counted up to high numbers, to make sure of myself, and repeated passages that I knew in prose and verse.
Chpt 53 (definition 1) *
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- In the meantime, Mrs. Joe put clean white curtains up, and tacked a new flowered flounce across the wide chimney to replace the old one, and uncovered the little state parlor across the passage, which was never uncovered at any other time, but passed the rest of the year in a cool haze of silver paper, which even extended to the four little white crockery poodles on the mantel-shelf, each with a black nose and a basket of flowers in his mouth, and each the counterpart of the other.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- We went into the house by a side door, the great front entrance had two chains across it outside,—and the first thing I noticed was, that the passages were all dark, and that she had left a candle burning there.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- She took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, and still it was all dark, and only the candle lighted us.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- But she answered at last, and her light came along the dark passage like a star.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2) *
- It being Saturday night, I found the landlord looking rather grimly at these records; but as my business was with Joe and not with him, I merely wished him good evening, and passed into the common room at the end of the passage, where there was a bright large kitchen fire, and where Joe was smoking his pipe in company with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- She locked it after admitting me, as she had done before, and again preceded me into the dark passage where her candle stood.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- The ringing of a distant bell, combined with the echoing of some cry or call along the passage by which I had come, interrupted the conversation and caused Estella to say to me, "Now, boy!"†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- As we were going with our candle along the dark passage, Estella stopped all of a sudden, and, facing round, said in her taunting manner, with her face quite close to mine,— "Well?"†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- Instead of going straight to the gate, too, she stepped back into the passage, and beckoned me.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- When I looked back at Joe in the long passage, he was still weighing his hat with the greatest care, and was coming after us in long strides on the tips of his toes.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- We entered this haven through a wicket-gate, and were disgorged by an introductory passage into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- I give this here bell a rap with this here hammer, and you go on along the passage till you meet somebody.†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- Upon that, I turned down the long passage which I had first trodden in my thick boots, and he made his bell sound.†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- At the end of the passage, while the bell was still reverberating, I found Sarah Pocket, who appeared to have now become constitutionally green and yellow by reason of me.†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- I therefore got up and put on my clothes, and went out across the yard into the long stone passage, designing to gain the outer courtyard and walk there for the relief of my mind.†
Chpt 38 (definition 2)
- But I was no sooner in the passage than I extinguished my candle; for I saw Miss Havisham going along it in a ghostly manner, making a low cry.†
Chpt 38 (definition 2)
- It came into my head that he must have occupied this very vault of mine, and I got out of bed to assure myself that there were no red marks about; then opened the door to look out into the passages, and cheer myself with the companionship of a distant light, near which I knew the chamberlain to be dozing.†
Chpt 45 (definition 2)
- The lighted candle stood in the dark passage within, as of old, and I took it up and ascended the staircase alone.†
Chpt 49 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (passage as in: In lines 1-9 of the passage...) a short part of a longer written workeditor's notes: This meaning of passage is commonly seen on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.