All 21 Uses
passage
in
Dracula
(Auto-generated)
- ...he handed it to me to read. One passage of it, at least, gave me a thrill of pleasure.
p. 24.1passage = short part of a longer written work
- I looked over the paper.... It did not convey much to me, until I reached a passage where it described small puncture wounds on their throats.
p. 203.5 *
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- He insisted on carrying my traps along the passage, and then up a great winding stair, and along another great passage, on whose stone floor our steps rang heavily.†
p. 23.3
- He insisted on carrying my traps along the passage, and then up a great winding stair, and along another great passage, on whose stone floor our steps rang heavily.†
p. 23.3
- I went on to make a thorough examination of the various stairs and passages, and to try the doors that opened from them.†
p. 42.5
- It was open, and led through a stone passage to a circular stairway, which went steeply down.†
p. 55.9
- At the bottom there was a dark, tunnel-like passage, through which came a deathly, sickly odour, the odour of old earth newly turned.†
p. 56.1
- As I went through the passage the smell grew closer and heavier.†
p. 56.1
- I went through the door in the corner and down the winding stair and along the dark passage to the old chapel.†
p. 59.6
- Then there came the sound of many feet tramping and dying away in some passage which sent up a clanging echo.†
p. 61.1
- As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet and the crash of weights being set down heavily, doubtless the boxes, with their freight of earth.†
p. 61.3
- All vastness, the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a 'brool' over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom.†
p. 82.8
- Then he dashed out past him and flew down the passage.†
p. 118.9
- The instant we had closed the door he stepped quickly along the passage to the next door, which was open.†
p. 131.1 *
- As I stood without moving, I saw one of the maids pass silently along the passage, she had her back to me, so did not see me, and go into the room where Lucy lay.†
p. 177.7
- I nodded, and we all went down the passage together.†
p. 259.2
- Once I got a fright, for, seeing Lord Godalming suddenly turn and look out of the vaulted door into the dark passage beyond, I looked too, and for an instant my heart stood still.†
p. 268.2
- It was only for a moment, for, as Lord Godalming said, "I thought I saw a face, but it was only the shadows," and resumed his inquiry, I turned my lamp in the direction, and stepped into the passage.†
p. 268.4
- There was no sign of anyone, and as there were no corners, no doors, no aperture of any kind, but only the solid walls of the passage, there could be no hiding place even for him.†
p. 268.5
- I could not see him anywhere in the passage, or in any of our rooms.†
p. 303.9
- Dr. Seward asked the attendant who was on duty in the passage if he had heard anything.†
p. 308.8
Definitions:
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(passage as in: In lines 1-9 of the passage...) a short part of a longer written workThis meaning of passage is commonly seen on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.
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(meaning too common or too 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.