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Passenger   /pˈæsəndʒər/   Listen
noun
passenger  n.  
1.
A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
2.
A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.
Passenger falcon (Zool.), a migratory hawk.





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"Passenger" Quotes from Famous Books



... readiness. The preparations had been made with all possible secrecy and even when the German batteries had begun gradually to get their range by testing shots no serious assault seems to have been expected by the Russians. On the morning of the attack they were just to inaugurate service on a small passenger railway line they had ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... Ferry.—The people of Yariba have a singular mode of transporting passengers across rivers and streams, when the violence and rapidity of their currents prevent them from using canoes with safety. The passenger grasps the float (see fig.), on the top of which his luggage is lashed; and a perfect equilibrium is preserved, by the ferry-man placing himself opposite the passenger, and laying hold of both his arms. They being thus face ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... reason, improper to address the epitaph to the passenger, a custom which an injudicious veneration for antiquity introduced again at the revival of letters, and which, among many others, Passeratius suffered to mislead him in his epitaph upon the heart of Henry, king of France, who was stabbed by Clement ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume V: Miscellaneous Pieces • Samuel Johnson
... and blankets of the prisoners, when the conquerors and vanquished moved together in a compact body from the ruin, in such a manner as to make the former serve as a mask to conceal the latter from the curious gaze of any casual passenger. There was but little, indeed, to apprehend on this head, for the alarm and terror, consequent on the exaggerated reports that flew through the country, effectually prevented any intruders on the usually quiet and retired ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper
... Ghost, having sent in a written resignation as the ship's doctor, gave himself out as a passenger for Sydney, and took the world quite easy. As for the crew, those who were sick seemed marvellously contented for men in their condition; and the rest, not displeased with the general licence, gave themselves little thought ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville


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