Diffused

Examples

• Let (A) be a common, widely-diffused, and varying species, belonging to a genus large in its own country. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They were neither so abundant nor so civilized as the still more widely diffused Greeks, but they had a tradition of greater solidarity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This haziness is occasioned by the great quantity of moisture equally diffused in that air. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This matter of lightning or of electricity is an extreme subtile fluid, penetrating other bodies, and subsisting in them, equally diffused. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants; and I also found that a greater degree of plenty reigned there. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We have, also, seen that the species, which are the commonest and most widely-diffused, vary more than do the rare and restricted species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Under all conditions the light is properly screened and diffused to suit the critical eye of the camera man. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To that quite as much as to the amelioration of things by a diffused prosperity, this phase of quiescence among the lower classes is to be ascribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was such an interest, such an animation, such a spirit diffused. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• They all had a common interest in the welfare of the state; they were all touched a little with the diffused kingship of the republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The moment the sunlight, even though diffused, strikes this powder it explodes with a violence which nothing can withstand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Echoes from those past times when they had exchanged tender words all the day long came like the diffused murmur of a seashore left miles behind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• All the devices of rotation in office, short terms, undelegated authority are simply attempts to defeat the half-perceived fact that power will not long stay diffused. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His eyes were bright, his countenance composed, an air of concentrated energy was diffused over his whole person, much unlike its former languor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The two settlements may have been quite independent, arising separately out of the widely diffused Heliolithic Neolithic culture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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