Her mother knew its times and seasons, and its passings into abeyance, not into extinction.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
Seriously speaking, though, I believe that international comparisons are a great waste of time-at any rate, international judgments and passings of sentence are.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Vague, indeterminate passings of figures through a fluid of unreality, like submarine life behind glass.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst