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Go past   /goʊ pæst/   Listen
Go past

verb
1.
Move past.  Synonyms: go by, pass, pass by, surpass, travel by.  "He passed his professor in the hall" , "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
2.
Be superior or better than some standard.  Synonyms: exceed, overstep, pass, top, transcend.  "She topped her performance of last year"






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"Go past" Quotes from Famous Books



... commanded the division on the right of Longstreet's corps, complains that he was not allowed to go past Round Top and flank us on the south, as he might have done, but was required by his orders to break in at the Peach Orchard and drive Sickles' line along the Emmetsburg road toward Cemetery Hill; but it seems to me, as he started late in the afternoon, if he had made the ...
— Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Campaigns of the Civil War - VI • Abner Doubleday

... at the door watching the procession go past to the church. He was amazed to see Lawyer Ed and his brother seated in the same carriage as Alexander Graham. There was a ponderous man with a double chin seated beside him, and going into a spasm of laughter ...
— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith

... it all up if I could see folks go past. A woman wants to see something out of the window and from the doorstep besides flowers and box ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... and court-house saw, with surprise too great for jeering, the note-shaver go past in a carriage, driven by his negro, and with two horses! Jack Wonnell took off his shining beaver to cheer. As the phenomenal team receded, the old cry ran, however, down the stilly street: "Steeple-top! He's got it on! ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... you three empty shops," Hewitt said, as he and young Kentish walked down Granville Road. "I am pretty sure that Sammy Crockett is in one of them, and I am pretty sure that that is the middle one. Take a look as we go past." ...
— Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison


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