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Definition of Passers
1. passer [n] - See also: passer
Literary usage of Passers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Torts in Obligations Arising from Civil Wrongs in by Frederick Pollock, James Avery Webb (1894)
"Duty towards passers-by. Occupiers of fixed property are under a like duty towards
... Duty towards passers-by. As stated In the text, persons lawfully ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"passers-by. See Partridge, Anthony. Passing of Marcus O'Brien. J. London. Reader.
11: 135-44. Ja. '08. Passing of Tommy. Cath. World. 87: 93-9. Ap. 'OS. ..."
3. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"27) once a year, after the rains before the passover, to warn passers by of
defilement. — 2. With regard to the Modern Sjr-an ..."
4. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... to see the red boards, with gilt characters, placed over certain doors,
proclaiming to all passers-by the degree, or degrees, taken by the inmates, ..."
5. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1896)
"... from the feet of the passers in and fro there were some ludicrous tumbles.
At one station the hincar had begun то pull in the plank when the traditional ..."
6. Traditions of Edinburgh by Robert Chambers (1825)
"... the preaching window, there has long existed a coarse effigy of the Reformer,
stuck upon the corner, and apparently holding forth to the passers by. ..."
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