laisser passer

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Moved by contemptuous curiosity, the two officers examined the miller’s laisser passer by the light of an electric torch.

From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Tracy, Louis

Le Consul des Etats Unis d'Amerique a Gand, prie Messieurs les autorites de bien vouloir laisser passer le porteur de la presente Monsieur Albert Williams, citoyen Americain.

From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Williams, Albert Rhys

Restrained within its natural limits, the famous laisser faire and laisser passer of the Physiocrates deserves even to-day our respect and our confidence.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

Barriers occurred frequently placed slantwise across the roads, where sentries stood with fixed bayonets, and through which no one could pass unless the laisser passer was produced.

From Fanny Goes to War by Washington, Pat Beauchamp

We are all named in the laisser passer.

From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Tracy, Louis