"Passim" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they subsisted by the perpetration of every kind of robbery and imposition; Aventinus (ANNALES BOIORUM, 826) speaking of them says: 'Adeo tamen vana superstitio hominum mentes, velut lethargus invasit, ut eos violari nefas putet, atque grassari, furari, imponere passim sinant.' ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
... municipal organization. The Council of Finance and the Council of Commerce had equally minute questions to decide in their own departments.[Footnote: De Lucay, Les Secretaires d'Etat, 418. For this excessive centralization, see, also, De Tocqueville, L'ancien Regime et la Revolution, passim.] ...
— The Eve of the French Revolution • Edward J. Lowell
... Christ.' Cf. Lib. II. sections 6, 11, et passim. Elizabeth's labours among the poor are too well known throughout one half at least of Christendom, where she is, par excellence, the patron of ...
— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley
... Damascus; and there are many other instances of preferring Kemi the Black Soil to the so called "Holy Land." The general tone, as well as the special incidents of the book, argues that the stories may have been ancient, but they certainly have been modernised. Coffee is commonly used (passim) although tobacco is still unknown; a youth learns archery and gunnery (Zarb al-Risas, vol. vii. 440); casting of cannon occurs (vol. v. 186), and in one place (vol. vi. 134) we read of "Taban-jatayn," a pair ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... 78 and passim) will supply instances of its application; how it is recited with open hands to catch the blessing from Heaven and the palms are drawn down the face (Ibid. i. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
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