Sentence examples for passage himself from inspiring English sources

Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of an 11-year-old boy's journey on a ship called the Oronsay travelling from Sri Lanka to England (Ondaatje made just such a passage himself).

He later explained that he had not written the passages himself — quite believably, since the style diverges widely from his own.

Rabbi Stern translated many of the materials from the original Hebrew, wrote passages himself and collected words of wisdom from eclectic voices ranging from Martin Buber to E.E.

When his high school put on a production of "Amadeus," he landed the role of Mozart, playing all the piano passages himself.

To save on air freight, he booked passage for himself on an ocean liner and had the Corvettes checked as his baggage, Thompson said in an interview.

Boosted by the highest employment rates on record, growth higher than any other major economy, falling inflation, and national debt falling as a share of national income, Osborne could not resist a long opening passage praising himself: "Out of the red and into the black.

Instantly, Montano relates both the twin towers and the Kafka passage to himself (now referred to in the second person): "To your amazement at what has happened in New York is added, on a strictly personal level, the impression that the time for being like Musil and Kafka, whereabouts unknown, is over".

In a nonfiction passage about himself in "Dutch," Mr. Morris wrote that when he started working in the Roosevelt Birthplace library, "the speckled smell of old books, the life trapped in old photographs, the dead quiet of the oak-paneled room filled me with a strange content".

With three other risk-takers, who had previously been engaged in various occupations that included some gray-market activity, he dug a shaft from a basement apartment in West Berlin to a basement apartment in East Berlin; the occupant of the former was given a small cut of the tunnel profits, and the occupant of the latter was paid off with free passage for himself and his wife.

The Godesburg's commander and some surviving defenders took refuge in the keep; using prisoners held in the dungeons as hostages, the commander negotiated safe passage for himself, his wife and his lieutenant.

Deng Gatek spent three days waiting to cross the Baro as he tried to scrape together the 30 birr (USD$1.5) fee he needed to secure passage for himself, his wife and his four children.