Sentence examples for requesting passage from inspiring English sources

Gary's immense head and hourglass-shaped skull loomed over us as we puttered by him, submissively requesting passage.

It starts in heaven with a stone politely requesting passage to earth from a Taoist priest and a Buddhist monk.

On the day before his death, a delirious Rimbaud dictated a letter to the head of an imaginary shipping company, urgently requesting passage to Suez.

In the summer of 1764, five Cherokee visited Timberlake, seeking an audience with the governor of Virginia and requesting passage to London.

So, Jefferson lied to France, England, and Spain when he requested passage for a "scientific" expedition through their territories.

On the evening of May 17th, fully two days after the battle, this young Jewish soldier read to his dying Christian brother-in-arms, his requested passages from the New Testament.

"Lock 33, Lock 33, this is the Seneca, requesting westward passage," he said into the handset as we approached our first lock.

I told him the Tahoe was a hybrid and requested free passage.

That's when the City Council, at the request of the late Edmund Krause, a member of the City Council who lived on Rancho Cañada Road, requested the passage of LCF Ordinance 4.04.090.

Harry Ross Hubbard sent a letter to the Navy Department on October 13, 1932, in which he requested a passage for his son to San Juan to "place his services at the disposal of the American Red Cross in their relief work on that island".

"I ask for your assistance in requesting guarantees of safe passage from the relevant nations in securing my travel to Latin America, as well as requesting asylum in Russia until such time as these states accede to law and my legal travel is permitted," Snowden said at a meeting with human-rights advocates and others at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.