Pervading
[pə:'veidiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pervade
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Examples
- I asked in a whisper, half awed by the deep pervading hush. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I affirm the all-pervading intelligence of that capacity. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Miss Shepherd being the one pervading theme and vision of my life, how do I ever come to break with her? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Now, by some queer process of association, that golden light became for him the pervading illumination in which she lived. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- To Ada and to me, that above all appeared the pervading influence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Eugene is also in attendance, with a pervading air upon him of having presupposed the ceremony to be a funeral, and of being disappointed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Newton's hypothesis that light is due to particles emitted by all luminous bodies yielded, at least for the time, to the theory of light vibrations in an ether pervading all space. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There was change everywhere; slight, yet pervading all. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Uriah's cheeks lost colour, and an unwholesome paleness, still faintly tinged by his pervading red, overspread them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And in such form Mr. Bucket shall find him, when he will, still pervading the tributary channels of Leicester Square. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was an old solemn churchits pervading gloom not gilded but purpled by light shed through stained glass. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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