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Definition of Passersby
1. passerby [n] - See also: passerby
Literary usage of Passersby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades by Debbie Miller (2002)
"After a week or so, children wrote in the titles of their poems, giving those
same passersby a chance to confirm or change their thinking. ..."
2. Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales by Robert Hamill Nassau (1914)
"He was in such great pain, in his swollen belly, that he was helpless, and cried
out to passersby, "Please, open a little hole in my body, and let out this ..."
3. We Discover New England by Louise Closser Hale, Walter Hale (1915)
"The passersby thought I was being summoned, and ceased to be passersby, by stopping
and becoming a crowd. So that they had to be dispersed, sternly, ..."
4. We Discover New England by Louise Closser Hale, Walter Hale (1915)
"The passersby thought I was being summoned, and ceased to be passersby, by stopping
and becoming a crowd. So that they had to be dispersed, sternly, ..."
5. We Discover New England by Louise Closser Hale (1915)
"The passersby thought I was being summoned, and ceased to be passersby, by stopping
and becoming a crowd. So that they had to be dispersed, sternly, ..."
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