"Passado" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr Hately, being unable to rejoin his companions, was forced to land at Cape Passado in lat. 0 deg. 25' S. on the coast of Guayaquil, where he and his people were barbarously used by a mixed race between the Indians and negroes; but were rescued by a priest, and sent to Lima, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr
... against; dead set at. storm, storming; boarding, escalade^; siege, investment, obsession^, bombardment, cannonade. fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting, broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer [Fr.]. cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado^, carte and tierce [Fr.], home thrust; coupe de bec [Fr.]; kick, punch &c (impulse) 276. battue^, razzia^, Jacquerie, dragonnade^; devastation &c 162; eboulement [Fr.]. assailant, aggressor, invader. base of operations, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
