Sentence examples for took passage from inspiring English sources

When the ape wanted to better his condition by ascending to a higher scale of being, he took passage for the island, and on his arrival there put on trousers and a silk hat, and assiduously practiced the art of walking erect.

On being discharged he took passage aboard the East Indiaman Winchelsea, bound for the East India station.

The battalion took passage aboard the SS Maidan at Southampton on 1 November 1914, completing its disembarkation at Le Havre on the morning of the third with the Queen's Westminster Rifles.

Wallace took passages from Carroll's children's books and derived rubbish anagrams from them, changing and leaving out letters as it suited his very weird purposes.

"The default is unbound delegates, so it will take passage of a rule to bind them," said the spokesman, Jonathon Prouty.

He had made his way to New Orleans, taken passage up the Mississippi, and gone to California to mine gold.

And at this juncture, few of the offices working on the issue said they were willing to take passage as a fait accompli.

I would take passage of laws in two states and our nation's capital over some jumpy poll results any day.

An article published in the 14 November edition of The Times newspaper reported that they had made their way to Liverpool, from where they had taken passage on a ship bound for New York.

Google fired back, saying Viacom was distorting the record by taking passages from e-mail messages out of context.

"I mean, sometimes I take passages from 'Gatsby' and make little corrections that any editor in the world would tell you are improvements".