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Example sentences for "penetrated"

Lexicographically close words:
penes; penetrable; penetralia; penetrant; penetrate; penetrates; penetrating; penetratingly; penetration; penetrations
  1. It was passionate, exalted, entirely penetrated and possessed by the emotion which for the time dominated it.

  2. Luther was somewhat scornful, and seems to have penetrated Henry's design.

  3. What had happened was that a few Germans had penetrated on to the road where Weatherby and I had passed in perfect safety only a short time before and ambushed the transport.

  4. Shortly afterwards the Norfolks reported that they had about sixty men in it who had penetrated thither during the night.

  5. Pursuing his career of devastation, the Prince of Wales, emboldened by the success of his operations, penetrated into Berry, a province in the very heart of France.

  6. I penetrated these in more than one direction, and one of the most striking characteristics of the forests was the absence of animal life, evidence of which grew less and less the farther we forced our way into their depths.

  7. One of my peones, Bernardo Haehansen, who had penetrated into the same district, said he had also seen an eight-pointer.

  8. Waag, who, on behalf of the Argentine Commission, penetrated from the Pacific coast up the river De las Heras to Lake Buenos Aires, and from thence overland to Trelew.

  9. In 1783 the traveller Viedma penetrated into the interior and discovered one link of the long chain of lakes lying under the Andes, which still bears his name.

  10. He then perceived that a thorn of uncommon size had penetrated the ball of the foot, and was the occasion of the swelling and lameness which he had observed.

  11. I left Arabia, with a heart penetrated with gratitude and admiration for its virtuous and benevolent inhabitants.

  12. Illustration: "I discharged it full at his broad and glaring eye-ball with such success, that the barbed point penetrated even to his brain.

  13. But Warwick, who penetrated into the true reason for Edward's obstinacy, was yet more resentful against the reasons than the obstinacy itself.

  14. Leopardi came forth a Hellene, not merely a consummate Greek scholar, but penetrated with the classical conception of life, and a master of antique form and style.

  15. He investigated the early history of Christianity and penetrated more deeply than any contemporary thinker into the significance of Spinoza's philosophy.

  16. The district which is now Leicestershire was reached in the 6th century by Anglian invaders who, making their way across the Trent, penetrated Charnwood Forest as far as Leicester, the fall of which may be dated at about 556.

  17. The heat came up in great waves and penetrated their feathers, and best of all they could sit down inside upon a small ledge and be out of the storm.

  18. The spear point penetrated the Pixie's breast, but the staff was shattered, and Halfrick borne to the deck.

  19. They made their way straight to a stone of quartz whose crystallized sides glittered in the light that penetrated the stream.

  20. Long before he awoke the sound of the sea penetrated his slumber and he dreamt curious things.

  21. Now he bowed his head before this old man's discourse which was certainly not ready for publication and yet penetrated to the inmost hearts of his auditors.

  22. In everything she penetrated into the innermost recesses of his heart.

  23. An exciting interview soon took place in the middle of the road, and Almira reentered the room with the expression of one who had penetrated the inscrutable and solved the riddle of the Sphinx.

  24. As this thought at last penetrated the mind of the dreaming youth, he started, awakening from his abstraction.

  25. Between Kingston and our destination there is a deep sandy flat, overgrown with brush and penetrated in all directions with labyrinthine lanes.

  26. Madame Pfeiffer penetrated the Brazilian forests, and thus describes the aboriginal savages.

  27. They had penetrated the soil for several feet, when their implements struck against a hard substance which was at first supposed to be solid rock, but a bar sank through it, showing it to be either bone or wood.

  28. Magellan passed through the straits that bear his name and so penetrated to the Pacific, that ocean being first so called by him.

  29. He did not pride himself upon his politeness, and was enraged when any one penetrated his intentions.

  30. La Ducloa and La Raisin were also very good; the charms of the latter had even penetrated the thick heart of our Dauphin, who loved her very tenderly: her husband was excellent in comic parts.

  31. Cadmus next threw his javelin, which met with better success, for it penetrated the serpent's scales, and pierced through to his entrails.

  32. Astolpho followed, and penetrated without difficulty within the court-yard of the castle, where he looked around for the rider and his horse, but could see no trace of either, nor any person of whom he could make inquiry.

  33. At last he entered a forest, and penetrated into its deepest recesses.

  34. He penetrated through the wood and reached an open space where the chief scene of the orgies met his eyes.

  35. Near by there was a part of the wood tufted as if nothing but wild animals had ever penetrated it.

  36. The sword penetrated his ribs, and came out a palm's breadth on the other side of his body.

  37. He accordingly went thither, and penetrated to the court of the king, whom he calls Negus.

  38. The king, penetrated by the most lively sentiments of gratitude, and having informed himself of Tristram's birth, offered him his daughter in marriage.

  39. The Trojan hero then threw his, which penetrated the shield of Turnus, and pierced his thigh.

  40. It penetrated the mantle, but missed his body.

  41. We are to suppose she took care to wash out all traces of it, but the magic power remained, and as soon as the garment became warm on the body of Hercules the poison penetrated into all his limbs and caused him the most intense agony.

  42. The Amazons in their turn invaded the country of Athens and penetrated into the city itself; and the final battle in which Theseus overcame them was fought in the very midst of the city.

  43. No voice from her penetrated to cheer his exile: the unhappiness of Josephine was well avenged.

  44. But here at Assisi, one cannot help being penetrated by the spirit that flowed from that life.

  45. In all his sweetness and serenity, he penetrated the veil which the eye of the worldly Gibbon could not pierce.

  46. This monarch even penetrated to the Danube with his armies, but made no permanent conquest in Europe.

  47. He penetrated with his invincible troops as far to the west as Lydia in Asia Minor, then ruled by the father of Croesus, and thus became known to the Ionian cities which the Greeks had colonized.

  48. At the approach of Stilicho, Alaric retired at first, but collecting a force of ten thousand men penetrated the Julian Alps, and advanced into Italy.

  49. Like Rudel of Tripoli, I have crossed seas and penetrated deserts to seek her out.

  50. But we penetrated into a new part of the town, then was some staring and some pointing.

  51. Fear, absorbing fear had stunned her thoughts; it overmastered her like some acute physical pain which began in her heart and penetrated every fibre of her frame.

  52. The full blaze of day penetrated nowhere but into the circular vestibule, which was lighted by openings in the drum of the cupola that rested on four gigantic columns.

  53. Still, this dirge was so true and noble, so penetrated with fervent, agonized grief, that it had gone to her heart.

  54. If penetrated be a proper phrase, then, at the moment when the part of infinity was penetrating the material universe, the part of infinity so penetrating must have been in motion.

  55. Don Sancho, understanding that the Major-domo had penetrated his thoughts, made up his mind at once.

  56. How far these disintegrations extended and penetrated we do not know; and we have yet no adequate explanation of the long inertia of the native religious instinct in the face of danger.


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