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Example sentences for "pervading"

Lexicographically close words:
perusing; pervade; pervaded; pervades; pervadeth; pervasive; perverse; perversely; perverseness; perversion
  1. There is just this one little altar of worship which has kept its head above the all-pervading depths of my dishonour, and so I want to cleave to it night and day; for on whichever side I step away from it, there is only emptiness.

  2. They fall soothingly upon the ear, and though all are distinctly heard, yet strange as it may seem, there is a strong impression upon the mind of the deep silence pervading the forest.

  3. We love the spring because of its freshness, its pervading vitality, its recuperating influences.

  4. Yet we do not hesitate to think of the English character, English institutions, the English type as distinct from the rest of the world, and we are right in so doing because there is a real unity pervading all the differences.

  5. Just in the same way at a higher remove there is a certain unity of character pervading the deeper and wider differences that appear in the various centres of Western civilization.

  6. Everywhere, rich materials and silent artists; business without bustle, and the all-pervading magic of method.

  7. The all-pervading stillness is broken by a breeze that seems to have travelled over the plain of Sharon from the sea.

  8. Art will be something added to life--something stuck on and richly reminiscent--not a manner pervading all real things.

  9. Such is Aristotle's natural realism, pervading his metaphysical and physical writings.

  10. This sceptical conclusion, the contrary of that drawn by Leibnitz from the harmony of thought and style pervading the works, shows us that the Homeric question has been followed by the Aristotelian question.

  11. All these inspiring metaphysical and moral doctrines the pupil accepted from his master's dialogues, and throughout his life adhered to the general spirit of realism without materialism pervading the Platonic philosophy.

  12. Prominent external objects can only be brought to mind, and these often reveal but an imperfect notion of the pervading character of strata, and still less knowledge of their mineral contents.

  13. In slender, translucent, greenish crystals, pervading rolled masses of serpentine, on the west shores of Lake Michigan.

  14. It occurs disseminated in a reddish loam, resting upon limestone rock, and is sometimes seen in small veins pervading the rock; but it has been chiefly explored in diluvial soil.

  15. The zechstone, or compact limestone, which is a pervading rock in the Mississippi Valley, occupies a position next above the great Mississippi sandstone.

  16. Brittleness is their pervading character; and it is owing to this quality, in a formation of great thickness, that the action of the water at Niagara Falls is of so very striking a character.

  17. Her vileness and God's holiness and all-pervading presence, which filled immensity, and threatened her with constant annihilation, composed the burden of her vision of terror.

  18. By love subsists All lasting grandeur, by pervading love; That gone, we are as dust.

  19. Thus we are led up to the statement of the all-pervading principle which determines the all-pervading process of differentiation.

  20. The real force, an unreached energy, is now flooding all space, pervading all materials.

  21. This we do when we attempt to describe the scientists' all-pervading ether of space, and to account for its influence on matter.

  22. This result is the all-pervading spirit of space (the ether of mankind), as solid as adamant and as mobile as vacuity.

  23. Unconscious of its all-pervading presence, however, man is working towards the power that will some day, upon the development of latent senses, open to him this new world.

  24. In that spirit of fatalism to which I have alluded as pervading current literature, it is the fashion to speak even of war and slavery as means of human progress.

  25. Should it be asked, what is to be the redress for an insurrection pervading all the States, and comprising a superiority of the entire force, though not a constitutional right?

  26. Take from God the idea of form; speak of him simply as an all pervading spirit--which means an all pervading something about which we know nothing--and Pantheism is the result.

  27. Duty is not a sentiment, but a principle pervading the life: and it exhibits itself in conduct and in acts, which are mainly determined by man's conscience and free will.

  28. The law touches us here and there, but manners are about us everywhere, pervading society like the air we breathe.

  29. In the seemingly whimsical operation of the cleft tree, now more immediately under our notice, the all-pervading form and feeling may be recognised.

  30. God is to them a king sitting on a throne in some far heaven outside of the world, not a spirit pervading it and sustaining it.

  31. The reasons for the late efforts to support this terrific doctrine are probably to be found in a widespread and increasing disbelief concerning it, pervading the churches nominally Orthodox.

  32. But Christ comes like the lightning, seen over the whole heaven at once, in a new spirit pervading all parts of life, all parts of society.

  33. May we not rationally seek for some all-pervading principle which determines this all-pervading process of things?

  34. Returning to the thread of our exposition, we have next to trace out, in organic progress, this same all-pervading principle.

  35. After some brief and parenthetic words of pathetic consolation, he states as the mark of the great transition from death to life, the existence of love as a pervading spirit effectual in operation.

  36. It urges to a pervading holiness in each recurring circumstance of life.

  37. He had instead a wholly pervading sense of ease and security.

  38. Willet was the pervading spirit of the defense.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pervading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.