The desire for railway extension principally pervaded the manufacturing districts, especially after the successful opening of the Liverpool and Manchester line.
Fitzpiers left the cot, and the stroke of his feet was soon immersed in the silence that pervaded the spot.
At this hour stir and bustle pervaded the interior of Winterborne's domicile from cellar to apple-loft.
To light it and go in the direction of the sound would be the obvious way to solve the dread problem; but the conditions made her hesitate, and in a moment a cold sweat pervaded her at further sounds from the same quarter.
The whole wood seemed to be a house of death, pervaded by loss to its uttermost length and breadth.
It was pervaded by a desire for class legislation, and propounded doctrines subversive of the rights of property, and of the national faith and credit.
In support of his motion the Earl of Shelburne exposed the profusion pervading all branches of government, and declared that his main object was to destroy that undue influence which pervaded both houses of parliament.
Mr. Canning also brought forward the unexampled prosperity of Edinburgh, and the contentment which pervaded its population, as a convincing proof of the excellence of the old system.
Corruption, in fact, pervaded at this time all orders of public men, and this was the more inexcusable, because the war necessarily imposed heavy burdens on the people.
It was not usual for that honourable member to indulge in the witty and satirical vein which so cleverly and appropriately pervaded that particular oration.
Lord Stanley, in the lords, moved an amendment to the usual address, which represented that the state of the country was not such as to call for or justify an address pervaded by a spirit of gratulation.
It was an eloquent eulogy upon the character of the departed; his errors, personal and political, were passed over, and the idea pervaded the discourse that the departed was a martyr and saint.
One common spirit pervaded the United Provinces of America, though it was more rampant in some colonies than others.
Disaffection pervaded the masses of the Roman Catholic population, and language of daring menace was employed towards the government by the popular leaders of every rank, both in and out of parliament.
Allusion had been made in the royal speech to the distress which pervaded the country at this time; and in this state of things Lord Howick give notice for a committee of the whole house to investigate the causes of this distress.
Until the close of the year, peace pervaded the whole of India, and Sir Henry Hardinge was employed in promoting the interests of the natives, by giving his attention to the important question of education.
A faint Eastern perfume pervadedthis strange little room, which suggested a deep retirement, an almost cloistered seclusion.
An acute sense of disappointment pervaded her because Craven had not come, though she had no reason whatever to expect him.
The inflammation gradually subsiding left me as weak as a child--so morbidly sensitive that tears flowed on the slightest occasion, and with my whole frame pervaded by a dull, incessant ache.
Its aspect was to the front of the house; she stole gently to a window, whence she thought the melancholy of her own mind pervaded the park.
So that a sort of air of entertaining "company" pervaded the room.
An inexplicable feeling of indignation with Juliette now pervaded Helene, as though some wrong had been done herself.
At this chilly morning hour, when the room still seemed asleep, she felt that she idolized him, loved him with a transport which pervaded her whole being.
The whole place was pervaded by a smell of long prevalent squalor.
Was not that intense love which had pervaded her life till now sufficient for her wants?
The Greek tragedies are pervaded and permeated, steeped and dyed with this idea of relentless fate.
A sensation of weakness pervaded her, and she awaited from the priest something like a pious complicity which would allow her to confess and particularize the vague feelings which she buried in her innermost being.
An intense weariness now pervadedthe young woman's limbs.
Under the influence of these reflections, Rechberg proceeded through the camp, without at first remarking the extraordinary calm which pervaded everything.
Rinaldo himself, magnificently dressed, seemed, as he walked along with clasped hands, to be animated by the same sentiment of respectful awe which pervaded all classes of the spectators.
His language is pervaded with its luxurious charm.
A gleam of fierce satisfaction pervaded the swarthy countenances of the Indians; and the features of Ponteac, in particular, expressed the deepest exultation.
It is a large and generous production, pervaded with that vague hum, that indefinable echo, of the whole multitudinous life of man, which is the real sign of a great work of fiction.
The intense anxiety which had pervaded America and the whole English-speaking world, from the day Dewey sailed from Mirs Bay, was changed to enthusiasm and gratification.
The French were dispirited; and uncertainty and divided councils pervadedtheir camp.
Before the after-glow had faded from the sky the wind died and a delicious coolness pervaded the plateau.
An atmosphere of depression pervaded the group of riders as they wound in and out of the cottonwood clumps and threaded the deep coulee that led to the bench.
It is impossible fully to describe the enthusiasm of joy which pervaded and was expressed by the whole multitude.
A deadly pallor pervaded her beautiful countenance, and she had the air of one whose delicate nerves had almost given way under prolonged terrors.
Intense excitement pervaded his listeners--fear of the man and stupefaction at his words.
Cayces had turned out andpervaded the Great Smoky Mountains, electioneering against the incumbent.
Vague solemnities pervaded the silent marshalling of these forces of Nature.
Outside the gibbous moon hung in the sky, and the light, solemn, ghostly, pervaded with pallid mysteries the snowy vistas of the dense, still woods.
The trade and dominion of Venice pervaded the coast of the Adriatic, and the hospitable republic opened her bosom to foreigners of every climate and religion.
The morning was extremely hot, and one would have thought that fact responsible for the listlessness which pervaded the group.
A quiet air of indolent aristocracypervaded the town.
A deep stillness pervaded nature, which tended to produce a corresponding quiescence in the mind, and to fill it with those indescribably solemn feelings that frequently arise before a thunderstorm.
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