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  • Passersby generally seemed unruffled by the protesters, but even in relatively liberal San Francisco, tolerance for them has been wearing thin among some residents.

    Protests Target Political Cash Vauhini Vara 2012

  • Passersby would then fill the bubbles with musings and Lee would photograph the results and post them on the Bubble Project website.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Passersby below your apartment marveling at the color of the flowers as you prune, cut, transplant and fashion an oasis pot by pot.

    Big Band Numbers Mark Sutz 2011

  • Passersby helped you free your car from the clutches of snow drifts.

    Kelly Moore: Is Life in America More Insane Than a War Zone? Kelly Moore 2011

  • Passersby outside my windows, television, people in the house, and even yippy animals manage to knock me off track in my train of thought while trying to write.

    Monday Muse #2: The Radio 2009

  • Passersby had seen him, barefoot and dishevelled, climbing the dangerously high wall of a railway viaduct and reported him as a potential suicide.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • Passersby were interested; Sachs distributed pamphlets about his business to them and let Pfizer know that Sachs would return the following week, with two female models riding the missile and distributing condoms.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • David Fickling Passersby cross a section of rubber matting outside a pub in Sydney.

    Soft Landing Geoffrey Rogow 2011

  • Passersby in a pickup truck -- a father and son -- saw me amid the storefronts, and stopped and watched me for a moment.

    Charles R. Wolfe: Retaining Sustainable Storefronts in the Urban Realm Charles R. Wolfe 2011

  • Passersby outside my windows, television, people in the house, and even yippy animals manage to knock me off track in my train of thought while trying to write.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

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