Lexicographical Neighbors of Repasses
Literary usage of Repasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"Passes and repasses the Dardanelles, without accomplishing anything.—Expedition
against Alexandria. —It is occupied by General Fraser.—Rosetta attacked. ..."
2. Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon by Napoleon, Gaspard Gourgaud, Charles Jean Tristan Montholon (1823)
"Turenne evacuates Alsace, and repasses the Vosges. Action of Turckheim (January 5).
Conquest of Alsace.—V. Observations. I. THIS year, all the princes of ..."
3. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"And so, as in leeching, reflex nervous action between the heart and blood-vessels
passes and repasses, and increases in an increasing ratio as the blood ..."
4. Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon by Napoleon, Gaspard Gourgaud, Charles-Tristan Montholon (1823)
"... precipitate retreat of that army ; battle of Wurtzburg (September 3); the army
encamps on the Lahn (September 10); on the 20th it repasses the Rhine; ..."
5. The Life of Richard, Earl Howe, K.G.: Admiral of the Fleet, and General of by John Barrow (1838)
"... the garrison—repasses the Strait, and offers battle off Cape Spartel—The
combined fleets forty-four sail of the line, to thirty-four English—Partial ..."
6. The Life of Richard, Earl Howe, K. G., Admiral of the Fleet, and General of by John Barrow (1838)
"... by the fleet—Tremendous gale of wind—Loss of Spanish ships—Spanish fleet passes
the Strait— Howe succeeds in relieving the garrison—repasses the Strait, ..."
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