Sentence examples for find a passage from inspiring English sources

With the publication of "Collected Poems," MacNeice's own excavation is now complete; readers who meet him halfway will find a passage that opens and opens and opens.

That brief discussion at 7.02pm was the first of several encounters Tomlinson had with police as he tried unsuccessfully to find a passage through the protests.

One can open the volume of Gallant's stories at random and find a passage such as this one, in "The Moslem Wife," the first in the collection.

In December 1607, still hoping to find a passage to the West Coast, he undertook to survey the Chickahominy River and was captured by one of Powhatan's brothers.

Soon, attempts to find a passage to Cathay were replaced by efforts to divert the trade of the ancient silk routes from their traditional outlets on the Black Sea to new northern outlets on the White Sea.

For sheer weirdness, it would be hard to find a passage in the Western canon that can compete with the tenth book of Homer's Iliad — the one classicists call the Doloneia, "the bit about Dolon".

"We found a passage that is identical to an earlier book".

When he found a passage, or even a whole chapter, too boring or obscure, he just skipped it.

With an eye on establishing a rival trading route to the Spice Islands, he later defected to Spain, found a passage around Cape Horn and baptised the Pacific Ocean.

On a whim, I took down from the bookshelf my abridged edition of Frazer's "Golden Bough," flipping through the chapters until I found a passage that I had read long ago.

After he won the Nobel prize in 2001, and possibly in acknowledgement of this painful personal story, he found a passage in Proust's essay Against Sainte-Beuve to elucidate his deepest self, using his Nobel speech to headline it.