Penetrated

Examples

• Gerald had penetrated all the outer places of Gudrun's soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The opaque parts, through which no light has penetrated, leave the solution soft on the surface of the metal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A glance at his wound told me that it had not penetrated the bone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• When evening came on, and the last rays of the setting sun penetrated through the side windows, this hall looked like a veritable Faust laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As the question passed his lips, I penetrated the motive of the Indian's visit to my office at last! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He sent his cavalry by both flanks, and they penetrated to the enemy's rear. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Resolute, however, to rejoin him, I penetrated the living barrier, creeping under where I could not get between or over. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• More men were required the farther the National troops penetrated into the enemy's country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After it has penetrated for a few feet, another length is added and the whole is driven down, and this is repeated until water is reached. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Its galleys could have penetrated up the rivers to the heart of Russia and outflanked every barbarian advance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even the cold regions of Russia were penetrated by the ardour for discovery. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• One of his reasons for making this concession has been penetrated by Mr. Bruff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I had penetrated the secret which the quicksand had kept from every other living creature. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Her hand hung powerless; each joint lay bare, so that the light penetrated through and through. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Something in the voice penetrated to the ear of the dying. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It penetrated through the curtains; it was loud, it was bold, it was wanting in every female charm. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Brass plates have penetrated into the square--Doctors, the Diddlesex Bank Western Branch--the English and European Reunion, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The cement commonly used for fastening the tops on kerosene lamps is plaster of Paris, which is porous, quickly penetrated by the kerosene, and readily destroyed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• No, there he stood on the same spot, looking still, but with a changed eye; he had penetrated my thought, and read my wish to shun him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then she penetrated farther into what might have been. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The barbed shaft of love had penetrated his dull hide. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She had no umbrella and the moisture quickly penetrated her thin spring dress. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Well, he said, after some minutes' silence, it is strange; but that sentence has penetrated my breast painfully. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The deep red blaze sent forth a rich glow, that penetrated into the farthest corner of the room, and cast its cheerful tint on every face. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The crusaders, advancing by slow marches, penetrated further into Bohemia, till they reached the neighbourhood of the town of Domazlice (Tauss). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The canal and Central Road, and the regions penetrated by them, were of vast importance to the enemy, furnishing and carrying a large per cent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She may not have surmised the whole, but her quickness must have penetrated a part. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He is penetrated with the spirit of Plato, and quotes or adapts many thoughts both from the Republic and from the Timaeus. Plato. The Republic.
• Alone he had landed at the city's boundary and on foot had penetrated to the buildings surrounding the plaza. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

Edited by Janet