Literary usage of Passadoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Territory of Florida, Or, Sketches of the Topography, Civil and Natural by John Lee Williams (1837)
"... up to the chief, making passadoes to and fro. The old man observed them with
fixed gravity, but without any surprise. In the mean time, Soto arrived. ..."
2. English Comic Dramatists by Joseph Addison, Francis Beaumont, Colley Cibber, William Congreve, Richard Cumberland, George Farquhar, John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, Ben Jonson, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John Vanbrugh, William Wycherley (1884)
"Ay, like enough ; I have heard of many that have been beaten under a planet: go,
get you to a surgeon. 'Slid ! an these be your tricks, your passadoes, ..."
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