Without a second thought, they lowered the floor to make a passage for visitors.
For memorable fiction — the only kind worth attempting — typically makes a passage through, and at best only partially triumphs over, the world's all too numerous excruciations.
It was believed that he sailed across the sky in a boat each day and then made a passage through the underworld each night, during which he would have to defeat the snake god Apopis in order to rise again.
Even so, every few years I must make a passage to London and gorge on your dramatic treats, most of which we'll never see (except, perhaps, at the cinema).
My own favourite movement is the finale, in which, after an implacable unison opening, there's one of the most memorable tunes anyone ever wrote in a symphonic finale; later on, Farrenc makes a passage of contrapuntal rectitude burn with a diabolical ferocity before a dark, uncompromisingly minor-key coda.
A few directors have witnessed that temper up close, among them David Lean, with whom she made A Passage to India, and George Sluizer, whose relations with her during Dark Blood (River Phoenix's last film) were so dire that producers had to intervene.
These considerations mainly apply to the mulberry technique, where the 18G needle made a passage big enough for a knot to pass through, ultimately resulting in the failure of the suture.
On 19 February 1868, Brazilian ironclads successfully made a passage up the Paraguay River under heavy fire, gaining full control of the river and isolating Humaitá from resupply by water.
On Monarch, Captain Edward O'Bryen remarked to Onslow that he could not see where his ship could pass between the closely formed Dutch ships, to which the Admiral responded that "the Monarch will make a passage".
