All 22 Uses of
passage
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Mrs. Walker would read us an instructive passage from the Bible.†
p. 5..3 (definition 1)
- I read the passage Owen had underlined most fervently in his copy of St. Thomas Aquinas—"Demonstration of God's Existence from Motion."†
p. 544..7 (definition 1)
- I read the passage over and over, sitting on Owen Meany's bed.†
p. 544..8 (definition 1) *
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- I'm not very sophisticated in my knowledge of the Old Testament, and I've not read the New Testament since my Sunday school days, except for those passages that I hear read aloud to me when I go to church.†
p. 3..3 (definition 2)
- I'm somewhat more familiar with the passages from the Bible that appear in The Book of Common Prayer; I read my prayer book often, and my Bible only on holy days—the prayer book is so much more orderly.†
p. 3..4 (definition 2)
- Almost everyone I know will be familiar with the passages from John, beginning with "…. whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."†
p. 4..1 (definition 2)
- And I have always appreciated the frankness expressed in that passage from Timothy, the one that goes "…. we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out."†
p. 4..2 (definition 2)
- Then Mr. Merrill and Mr. Wiggin indulged in a kind of face-off, with each of them demonstrating his particular notion of pertinent passages from the Bible—Mr. Merrill's passages being more "pertinent," Mr. Wiggin's more flowery.†
p. 120..9 (definition 2)
- Merrill's passages being more "pertinent," Mr. Wiggin's more flowery.†
p. 120..9 (definition 2)
- In their zeal to demonstrate their knowledge of appropriate passages from the Bible, neither minister had offered my mother and Dan that most reassuring blessing from Tobit—the one that goes, "That she and I may grow old together."†
p. 127..9 (definition 2)
- Over all rituals, over all services—over every rite of passage— Owen Meany would preside.†
p. 186..4 (definition 2)
- Dan grabbed me in the connecting passage to the parish house; he said he'd wait for me to get my clothes, and Owen's—we could go back to the dorm together, then, or to 80 Front Street.†
p. 232..9 (definition 2)
- This morning, in Grace Church on-the-Hill, I sat very still, waiting for that passage in John; I knew what was coming.†
p. 286..6 (definition 2)
- I remember what Owen used to say about that passage; every Easter, he would lean against me in the pew and whisper into my ear.†
p. 286..9 (definition 2)
- Owen, too, was fond of that passage.†
p. 289..1 (definition 2)
- I saw nothing that was morally offensive in this rite of passage.†
p. 348..1 (definition 2) *
- We were more than twice as long being seated, because only one staircase ascending to The Great Hall was available for our passage—and then there was the problem of the front-row bench being smashed; the boys who regularly sat there had to find places for themselves on the floor, or onstage.†
p. 401..0 (definition 2)
- Then we made Owen Meany stand in the dark inside the secret passageway, while Mr. Fish recited, too loudly, the passage that Owen had always admired from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.†
p. 500..6 (definition 2)
- "There's a passage right at the beginning—they miss it every year!"†
p. 531..5 (definition 2)
- "I'm referring to Lockwood's description of Joseph, I've been pointing it out to them for so many years that I know the passage by heart: 'looking …. in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner ….'†
p. 531..6 (definition 2)
- Then he read to us—that passage about the miracle in the Gospel according to Mark: And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them.†
p. 575..1 (definition 2)
- When he finished reading this passage, Pastor Merrill lifted his face to us and cried out, " 'I believe; help my unbelief!'†
p. 575..9 (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.