1 Several months passed in this manner.
2 The figure passed me quickly, and I lost it in the gloom.
3 Six years have passed since I resolved on my present undertaking.
4 No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself.
5 We passed a few sad hours until eleven o'clock, when the trial was to commence.
6 The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit.
7 I passed through scenes familiar to my youth, but which I had not seen for nearly six years.
8 We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
9 Two days passed in this manner before he was able to speak, and I often feared that his sufferings had deprived him of understanding.
10 When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.
11 Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make.
12 Six years had elapsed, passed in a dream but for one indelible trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my departure for Ingolstadt.
13 She then related that, by the permission of Elizabeth, she had passed the evening of the night on which the murder had been committed at the house of an aunt at Chene, a village situated at about a league from Geneva.
14 She returned to the house about eight o'clock, and when one inquired where she had passed the night, she replied that she had been looking for the child and demanded earnestly if anything had been heard concerning him.
15 He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family.
16 We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.
17 Summer passed away in these occupations, and my return to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn; but being delayed by several accidents, winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was retarded until the ensuing spring.
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