Sentence examples for on a passage from inspiring English sources

The supposition, based on a passage in one of the Exemplary Stories, that he studied for a time under the Jesuits, though not unlikely, remains conjectural.

Begley's comments on a passage in Wife-Wooing, one of Updike's stories about Joan and Richard Maple, exemplify his somewhat literal interpretations.

The Weekly Standard found one review from 1997 that focused on a passage from Undaunted Courage that was a "wanly cited echo" of a similar passage by Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson scholar Dumas Malone Dumas Malone.

You could start on a passage and have no idea where it would end.

He gives brief character sketchs of his pupils while questioning them on a passage from Macbeth.

He concluded his talk by focusing on a passage from the fourth chapter of his book, on Algorithms.

At the time that he embarked on A Passage, Forster was at a curious point��in his creative life.

But no, it was only a short song based on a passage from Dickens's "Tale of Two Cities".

He stepped to the pulpit with his finger on a passage from the Gospel of Mark, and spoke for 15 minutes on the "seed of David".

As was true of many ocean voyagers of the time, Mrs. Meanwell was on a passage intended to be a momentous alteration of a settled life.

Now they've reached the threshold where, in the words of the mythologist Joseph Campbell, ­heroes embark on "a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown".