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  • Its light was not bright, and it was diffused by the mist, but the man Jack would not need much light.†   (source)
  • What concentrated itself in him diffused through the rest of the world, too.†   (source)
  • The clouds present diffuse bands of tender grays and blues, and below them the ocean does the same.†   (source)
  • By the living room door was a narrow space that ended in the frosted-glass door of the front entrance through which a diffused blood-orange light embossed the beige and olive wallpaper in fiery honeycomb patterns.†   (source)
  • A vague scent of life and green vegetation was diffused in the air.†   (source)
  • An ornate letter S, inlaid with many small green stones, glinted dully in the diffused light shining through the tent's canvas roof.†   (source)
  • Late afternoon, the sky hazy, the sunlight diffuse but heavy and everywhere, like bronze dust.†   (source)
  • She should be diffusing and scrunching and, if possible, sleeping on a satin pillowcase.†   (source)
  • His sympathetic eyes diffused Kai's mounting anger.†   (source)
  • But —" holding it up again to sparkle, in the diffuse luminance of the overheads—"emeralds aren't really my stone.†   (source)
  • He wordlessly turns it on, and it casts a diffuse circle of light around us.†   (source)
  • The most terrifying thing about DIVORCE was that he had sensed the word-or concept, or whatever it was that came to him in his understandings-floating around in his own parents' heads, sometimes diffuse and relatively distant, sometimes as thick and obscuring and frightening as thunderheads.†   (source)
  • Alarmed, he watched as the middle of his palm shimmered and formed a diffused white oval.†   (source)
  • The light came from within it, a cold-glowing green light with yellow edges that diffused the shape, making it change and grow as I watched.†   (source)
  • Kathy tried to diffuse the situation.†   (source)
  • Normally I could navigate by the sun—which shouldn't be a surprise, since I spent millennia driving it across the sky—but under the canopy of trees, the light was diffuse, the shadows confusing.†   (source)
  • For a year or so, Alex, who lived in the Hills, worked with Mr. Madison to diffuse any tension.†   (source)
  • There is very little diffusion.†   (source)
  • As my eyes adjusted, I could see the diffused glow highlighting the tops of the trees, and glinting off a small slice of the river.†   (source)
  • For a brief moment, way up at the top of the ridge, the sun diffuses through the trees and a halation of the light comes down to us.†   (source)
  • Like a sore tooth that is not content to throb in isolation, but must diffuse its own pain to other parts of the body—making breathing difficult, vision limited, nerves unsettled, so a hated piece of furniture produces a fretful malaise that asserts itself throughout the house and limits the delight of things not related to it.†   (source)
  • A faint milky light diffused from the street lights or the half moon or the cars or the stars, I couldn't tell what, but apart from holding my hand Constantin showed no desire to seduce me whatsoever.†   (source)
  • The result was a grainy picture with a minimal greyscale that showed a curtain, part of an arm, and a diffuse half-moon-shaped face a little way inside the room.†   (source)
  • When people are in a group, in other words, responsibility for acting is diffused.†   (source)
  • "Psycho alert," Lindsay shouts out, probably hoping to diffuse the tension.†   (source)
  • But there is also a milder, more diffuse cruelty of indifference, and it is global indifference that leaves some 3 million women and girls incontinent just like Dina.†   (source)
  • When I bombed the compound, I further diffused personal responsibility by sharing the task: I painted the target, DJ radioed the ship, and someone else pressed the button that launched the missile.†   (source)
  • Each car has a large rubber bumper all around it, which prolongs the impact and diffuses the force of the collision.†   (source)
  • The only U.S.-owned gaseous diffusion plant is in Paducah, Kentucky.†   (source)
  • And number two was if anything happened or was said that felt strange or awkward, there could be no strained silences: it had to be acknowledged as quickly as possible, brought out in the open, dealt with and dismantled, like diffusing a bomb.†   (source)
  • Slowly the dawn grew to a pale light, diffused and shadowless.†   (source)
  • Yet I could still smell the smoke; it choked me; it burnt my eyes and my lungs, even as my hands were burnt and my forehead was burnt from the first diffused light of the sun.†   (source)
  • Atop a pile of grain, breathing in the pungent dust of the granary in the diffuse, golden morning light that filtered through the chinks, they kissed, licked, bit, and sucked each other, sobbed and drank each other's tears, swore eternal love and drew up a secret code that would allow them to communicate during the coming months of separation.†   (source)
  • Zayd tries to diffuse it.†   (source)
  • He wasn't quite sure that any response would diffuse the hostility, so he fell back on the obvious.†   (source)
  • In his right hand he held a sealed vial of yellow fluid that diffused the glare of an overhead spotlight.†   (source)
  • You'll get your turn," said Eleanor, trying to diffuse the situation.†   (source)
  • All were the same, a brilliant white diffused with gray, I closed my eyes for a moment and looked again and still no change.†   (source)
  • If this gas is so highly diffusible …†   (source)
  • Flames erupted into the night sky, but the burning mass was quickly diffused in the still wind to fiery rubble.†   (source)
  • As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused generally among the body of a nation, it is impossible they should be enslaved…… Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart.†   (source)
  • A second scan however had found some diffused bleeding in the brain so they had drilled a tiny hole in her skull and inserted something that was now monitoring the pressure inside.†   (source)
  • The summer day was warm and clear, and the sunshine was diffused in matching parabolic rainbow arcs across the dirty windshield.†   (source)
  • He clenched his fists, imagining the heat being drawn into the surrounding brick and diffusing throughout the house.†   (source)
  • No, he thought, not dread, there's nothing to fear: just an immense, diffused apprehension, with no source or object.†   (source)
  • She was so pale under the diffuse lamplight that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her.†   (source)
  • Yet even then humor remained the one legitimate response to diffuse the horror of those weekly reports from the front.†   (source)
  • You can't see the sun through the thin buffer of cloud cover but the light is fully diffused, almost too bright to see.†   (source)
  • Diffusion of energy, he called it.†   (source)
  • The fighting between Targos and Termalaine had escalated in the past few weeks, despite Cassius's efforts to diffuse it and bring the principles of the warring towns to the bargaining table.†   (source)
  • "And if it gets diffused the whole thing is going to tumble," Dr. Foster said.†   (source)
  • Trees rose as ghostly masses in the diffused light.†   (source)
  • He stood at her door, behind him the oblong pool shimmering silent in a mild diffusion of light from the nighttime sky, saying, "Mrs.†   (source)
  • What better nationalism for a diffuse, unstructured nation like Poland than the practical yet aesthetically thrilling nationalism of National Socialism, in which Die Meistersinger was no more or no less a civilizing influence than the great new autobahns?†   (source)
  • The light threw a circle on the reading table and only diffused dimly through the gray room.†   (source)
  • Enjoying the foretaste of concentrated work, he took in what was going on around him with: a happy, diffuse attentiveness.†   (source)
  • Even while Hannah watched her, Mary's face became diffuse and humble.†   (source)
  • Even if they'd been correct about the heavy particles—the radioactive dust—which they weren't, we'd still have got the lightest particles carried by diffusion.†   (source)
  • the tone of the diffused green light of the sea bottom.   (source)
    diffused = faintly dispersed (spread without being concentrated or bright in any one area)
  • Looking back at the grotesque peaks and shadowy angles of the old mansion, they fancied a gloom diffused about it which no brightness of the sunshine could dispel.   (source)
    diffused = spread
  • A soft light diffused through the tent, lifting his spirits.†   (source)
  • Knowledge is more diffused…… Man, as man, becomes an object of respect.†   (source)
  • The confusion had diffused (and thus defused) her rage even more; he saw she now didn't even know if she had any right to be angry.†   (source)
  • As he moved toward the cardinals, not even the diffused light of the candles could soften the eyes boring into him.†   (source)
  • The movement ended the uneasy truce with the pain in his legs and the drug-need in his nerves, but it also diffused his terror a little.†   (source)
  • In blameless quiet, he buried himself in his work, steam-bending veneers or hand-threading table legs with a chisel, and his happy absorption floated up from the workshop and diffused through the house with the warmth of a wood-burning stove in winter.†   (source)
  • Perhaps-this was the thought most fiercely resisted and most deeply buried at the bottom of his watchers sensations, the thought they knew only as a diffused hatred and an unfocused terror-perhaps it was the absence of such statues from the modern world that had transformed a generator into an octopus and brought a body such as his into its tentacles.†   (source)
  • Knowledge and virtues were increased and diffused; arts, sciences useful to man, ameliorating their condition, were improved, more than in any period.†   (source)
  • Clots of mist were drifting, like smoke, across the moon, and in the diffused glow she could not distinguish the expressions of their faces, as she walked between them: the only expressions to perceive were the straight silhouettes of their bodies, the unbroken sound of then— steps and her own feeling that she wished to walk on and on, a feeling she could not define, except that it was neither doubt nor pain, When they approached his cabin, Francisco stopped, the gesture of his hand…†   (source)
  • She looked at the complex equipment sparkling in a bright, diffused glow, at the mesh of glittering wires, at the blackboard chalked with mathematical formulas, at the long counters of objects shaped by the ruthless discipline of a purpose-then at the sagging boards and crumbling plaster of the garret.†   (source)
  • From Philadelphia, where the Constitutional Convention had assembled, Benjamin Rush, a member of the Convention, wrote that the Defence had "diffused such excellent principles among us, that there is little doubt of our adopting a vigorous and compound federal legislature."†   (source)
  • You still retain a sense-not as firm as a memory, but diffused like the pain of hopeless longing-that somewhere in the starting years of your childhood, before you had learned to submit, to absorb the terror of unreason and to doubt the value of your mind, you had known a radiant state of existence, you had known the independence of a rational consciousness facing an open universe.†   (source)
  • Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of…†   (source)
  • Look at the diffusion of religion around the globe.†   (source)
  • Eleanor wasn't diffusing, but she was using the conditioner Park's mom had given her.†   (source)
  • They walked outside, and the daylight, which Alan had dreaded, was diffuse, forgiving.†   (source)
  • The clouds rolled in, diffusing the light so that it could have been morning or afternoon.†   (source)
  • Conflict in the future would be diffuse.†   (source)
  • The light from the opening in the roof was becoming diffuse and gray.†   (source)
  • Mark Granovetter and R. Soong, "Threshold Models of Diffusion and Collective Behavior."†   (source)
  • Did something go wrong in the diffusion process?†   (source)
  • If that were true, how would the air bypass the quicksilver or diffuse through the glass?†   (source)
  • Annie smiled and swallowed some more wine, hoping to diffuse the silence that now fell between them.†   (source)
  • "You can't use gaseous diffusion on plutonium.†   (source)
  • The study is nicely described (along with other work on diffusion theory) in Everett Rogers.†   (source)
  • But the gaseous diffusion method is only used to enrich uranium," said Puller.†   (source)
  • John Darley and Bibb Latanc, "Bystander Intervention in Emergencies; Diffusion of Responsibility."†   (source)
  • Diffusion of Innovations (New York: Free Press, 199$).†   (source)
  • The show began with Smithsonian Castle, its basement science labs, corridors lined with exhibits, a salon full of mollusks, scientists who called themselves "the curators of crustaceans," and even an old photo of the castle's two most popular residents—a pair of now-deceased owls named Diffusion and Increase.†   (source)
  • Its edges didn't diffuse.†   (source)
  • This time I am ready for the momentum the train gives me, and I run a few steps to diffuse it but keep my balance.†   (source)
  • He bequeathed to our forefathers a massive fortune and asked them to build at the core of our nation 'an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.'†   (source)
  • Now she is more diffuse.†   (source)
  • "Commander Olivetti," Langdon intervened, trying to diffuse what looked like a second bomb about to explode.†   (source)
  • The windows were shrouded with tacked-up bedsheets just thin enough to let in a diffuse violet glow from the street.†   (source)
  • Outside, the fog was thick, not a breath of wind, streetlights burning through with a diffuse, haggard, ashen stillness, softened and blurred to haze.†   (source)
  • Webb crossed the street, aware that a misty drizzle had suddenly filled the air, diffusing the glare of the streetlamps, halos beneath the orbs of rippled glass.†   (source)
  • The center of the Eldunari glowed with a dull radiance, similar to that of a shuttered lantern, and the diffuse light throbbed with a slow, steady beat.†   (source)
  • It threw a circle of light on the low ceiling and made a wider, more diffuse sphere of light around us.†   (source)
  • A diffuse cloud of yellow light billowed through the depths, like someone had poured liquid neon into the water.†   (source)
  • A starburst of royal blue filled the flowers' throats, diffusing into the sable corolla like the vestiges of day into night.†   (source)
  • Men and women of all ages, from children to ancients, were dressed in rags, and pungent, heavy smoke curled slowly upward, filling the space between the decaying buildings, diffusing the light, heightening the gloom of the dark stone walls blackened by use and misuse.†   (source)
  • In the low, warm light from the setting sun, his silver hair glowed in a diffuse halo around his head.†   (source)
  • Shadows were absolute blackness, without any of the relief caused by diffusion of atmosphere on Earth.†   (source)
  • In front of her house, they talk some more, and he smooths his palm around and around the steering wheel, staring out at the street light, diffusing the yellow bloom of its rays through the windshield.†   (source)
  • It was visible from where we sat on the stairway, illuminated by a soft, diffuse light from the street.†   (source)
  • Tonight, Comroe was reviewing a journal article titled "Stoichiometrics of Oxygen-Carrying Capacity and Diffusion Gradients with Increased Arterial Gas Tensions."†   (source)
  • I probably looked like a cartoon, the way I sprung up, then looked back at him—his diamond body faintly glinting in the diffuse light—then away to the west, where Renesmee waited, then back at him again, then back toward her, my head whipping from side to side a half dozen times in a second.†   (source)
  • Scraps of white mist clung to the sides of the mountains, and in several places throughout the valley, diffuse curtains of rain drifted from the ceiling of clouds.†   (source)
  • "We weren't doing gaseous diffusion."†   (source)
  • Bruce Ryan and Ncal Gross, "The Diffusion of Hybrid Seed Corn in Two Iowa Communities," Rural Sociology (1943), vol. 8, pp. 11-24.†   (source)
  • Has to be for gaseous diffusion.†   (source)
  • One of the most famous diffusion studies is Bruce Ryan and Neal Gross's analysis of the spread of hybrid seed corn in Greene County, Iowa, in the 1930s.†   (source)
  • In the language of diffusion research, the handful of farmers who started trying hybrid seed at the very beginning of the 1930s were the Innovators, the adventurous ones.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the best way to understand what Lambesis did is to go back to what sociologists call the diffusion model, which is a detailed, academic way of looking at how a contagious idea or product or innovation moves through a population.†   (source)
  • The diffuse mistiness in which everything was enveloped marked the stage preceding the distinctness of the final embodiment.†   (source)
  • When she lit the gas, there was a soft diffused light without glare.†   (source)
  • I am speaking now of diffused suffering over a long period such as the war will produce.†   (source)
  • This kind of aid to people in trouble now diffused practically free, as in magazines or on the air.†   (source)
  • Her hair diffused its delicate perfume and through it glimmered the little shell-like ear.†   (source)
  • Its sweet and heavy smoke diffused a pleasant aroma.†   (source)
  • Her smooth, sloping face was flushed now with her work, but faintly so, diffused, the color of a hand beneath wax.†   (source)
  • …too as we are and victims too as we are, but victims of a different circumstance, simpler and therefore, integer for integer, larger, more heroic and the figures therefore more heroic too, not dwarfed and involved but distinct, uncomplex who had the gift of loving once or dying once instead of being diffused and scattered creatures drawn blindly limb from limb from a grab bag and assembled, author and victim too of a thousand homicides and a thousand copulations and divorcements.†   (source)
  • The motif of the sun as a goddess, instead of as a god, is a rare and precious survival from an archaic, apparently once widely diffused, mythological context.†   (source)
  • The evening sun, whose heat had gone out of it and whose burning spot of intensity had been diffused, made chairs and tables mellower and inlaid them with lozenges of brown and yellow.†   (source)
  • The rain had given place to a full August moonlight, so clear that you could see a woolly bear caterpillar fifteen yards away out of doors, as it climbed up and up the knobbly sandstone of the great keep, and it took the Wart only a few moments for his eyes to become accustomed to the diffused brightness inside the mews.†   (source)
  • It was as though he had been doing it for so long now that all of him had become scattered and diffused and now there was nothing left but the transparent and weightless shell blown oblivious and without destination upon whatever wind.†   (source)
  • A white spark of fire flashed like a cold metallic cross in the glass she held, as if it were a lens gathering the diffused radiance of her skin.†   (source)
  • He was absent only from the room, and that because he had to be elsewhere, a part of him encompassing each ruined field and fallen fence and crumbling wall of cabin or cotton house or crib; himself diffused and in solution held by that electric furious immobile urgency and awareness of short time and the need for haste as if he had just drawn breath and looked about and realised that he was old (be was fifty-nine) and was concerned (not afraid concerned) not that old age might have…†   (source)
  • A broad distinction can be made between the mythologies of the truly primitive (fishing, hunting, root-digging, and berry-picking) peoples and those of the civilizations that came into being following the development of the arts of agriculture, dairying, and herding, c. 6000 B.C. Most of what we call primitive, however, is actually colonial, i. e., diffused from some high culture center and adapted to the needs of a simpler society.†   (source)
  • There was a frosted skylight over the roofstair housing that diffused a cloudy yellow glow at morning and a soft grey haze at afternoon.†   (source)
  • At dawn we were in a haze like the swelter of an old-fashioned laundry Monday, with the sun a burning copper-bottom, and through this air distortion and diffused color you couldn't see fifty yards.†   (source)
  • …he should not have been anywhere near the house at all but miles away and invisible somewhere among his hundred square miles which they had not troubled to begin to take away from him yet, perhaps not even at this point or at that point but diffused (not attenuated to thinness but enlarged, magnified, encompassing as though in a prolonged and unbroken instant of tremendous effort embracing and holding intact that ten-mile square while he faced from the brink of disaster, invincible…†   (source)
  • Actually it was as though she were suddenly diffused with joy, enveloped in a rosy mist.†   (source)
  • In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities.†   (source)
  • He was one of those men in whom the force that creates life is diffused, not centralized.†   (source)
  • Deepest of all in her personality was the golden radiance that she diffused around her.†   (source)
  • The air of wealth and repose diffused about them seemed to comfort their neediness.†   (source)
  • Ivan Ilych felt that he had diffused this gloom over them and could not dispel it.†   (source)
  • The spirit of Esther diffused itself, like the stimulus which attends a war-cry, among her sons.†   (source)
  • A little more light would have enabled him to see the pride that diffused itself over her face.†   (source)
  • The diffused light revealed the smallest object in the dense and distant thickets.†   (source)
  • It had diffused over the earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light.†   (source)
  • As for Tom Moore, some of his songs diffused an odor like a burning pastil.†   (source)
  • It did not wholly fade away, but diffused itself and lingered thick at the edges.†   (source)
  • On the water they were more widely diffused.†   (source)
  • There was such an interest, such an animation, such a spirit diffused.†   (source)
  • And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system.†   (source)
  • But the diffused magic of the hot sweet South had withdrawn into them—the soft-pawed night and the ghostly wash of the Mediterranean far below—the magic left these things and melted into the two Divers and became part of them.†   (source)
  • The sun, whose concentrated glare dwarfs the earth into a restless mote of dust, had sunk behind the forest, and the diffused light from an opal sky seemed to cast upon a world without shadows and without brilliance the illusion of a calm and pensive greatness.†   (source)
  • He played with the melancholy which the phrase diffused, he felt it stealing over him, but like a caress which only deepened and sweetened his sense of his own happiness.†   (source)
  • Though the sky was dense with cloud, a diffused light from some fragment of a moon had hitherto helped them a little.†   (source)
  • The bulk of three cigars had passed into the invisible or diffused as a white ash over the carpet before he spoke again.†   (source)
  • Over her throat there played the reflection from a little pool of water, left by a thunderstorm of the night before, and all the rest of her features were in the diffused and luminous shade of her white parasol.†   (source)
  • A spirit of unruliness diffused itself among us and, under its influence, differences of culture and constitution were waived.†   (source)
  • She was of an age which usually sleeps soundly, yet to-night she kept waking up, and every time she opened her eyes there was enough diffused light from the street to show her the white plaster figures, standing on the chest of drawers in odd contrast to their environment of text and martyr, and the Gothic-framed Crucifix-picture that was only discernible now as a Latin cross, the figure thereon being obscured by the shades.†   (source)
  • A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it.†   (source)
  • On the third day after the full, the moon, as seen from the open space in front of Jim's house (he had a very fine house in the native style when I visited him), rose exactly behind these hills, its diffused light at first throwing the two masses into intensely black relief, and then the nearly perfect disc, glowing ruddily, appeared, gliding upwards between the sides of the chasm, till it floated away above the summits, as if escaping from a yawning grave in gentle triumph.†   (source)
  • Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a diffused thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge.†   (source)
  • But he must not be addressing his reflections to Anne alone: he knew it; he was soon diffused again among the others, and it was only at intervals that he could return to Lyme.†   (source)
  • It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so broad, baronial, and superb a person.†   (source)
  • …gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.†   (source)
  • And so Liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.†   (source)
  • There was, nevertheless, some sweetness diffused over that face, but it was the sweetness of a cat or a judge, an affected, treacherous sweetness.†   (source)
  • The ideas diffused by the reading of Lucetta's letters at Peter's Finger had condensed into a scandal, which was spreading like a miasmatic fog through Mixen Lane, and thence up the back streets of Casterbridge.†   (source)
  • Echoes from those past times when they had exchanged tender words all the day long came like the diffused murmur of a seashore left miles behind.†   (source)
  • The civilization of New England has been like a beacon lit upon a hill, which, after it has diffused its warmth around, tinges the distant horizon with its glow.†   (source)
  • In short, so rapidly had the savage sounds diffused themselves over the barren rock, that it was not difficult for the anxious listeners to imagine they could be heard beneath, as in truth they were above on every side of them.†   (source)
  • A lamp covered with a drooping veil of pink tissue-paper burned on the table beside her and diffused a strange pale rosiness over the scene.†   (source)
  • A fragrance was diffused from it which Giovanni recognized as identical with that which he had attributed to Beatrice's breath, but incomparably more powerful.†   (source)
  • The gates of heaven at times seemed to open, and a bland air diffused itself over the earth, when animate and inanimate nature would awaken, and, for a few hours, the gayety of spring shone in every eye and smiled on every field.†   (source)
  • The cheeks are a slide from the brows into the valley of the face, opposed and diffused by the cheek bones.†   (source)
  • It constantly brings back the members of the community to a common level, from which they as constantly escape: and the inequality of fortunes augments in proportion as knowledge is diffused and liberty increased.†   (source)
  • As the liquor diffused a pleasant perfume, the old people doubted not that it possessed cordial and comfortable properties; and though utter sceptics as to its rejuvenescent power, they were inclined to swallow it at once.†   (source)
  • Denisov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvitski's nose.†   (source)
  • No particular clock, Mrs. Bread supposed, went all the time, and no particular servant could enjoy all the sunshine diffused by the career of an exacting master.†   (source)
  • WAGNER Invoke not thus the well-known throng, Which through the firmament diffused is faring, And danger thousand-fold, our race to wrong.†   (source)
  • Religious zeal, said they, must necessarily fail, the more generally liberty is established and knowledge diffused.†   (source)
  • When her sister put this question, however, a blush diffused itself over the features of the dying girl, so faint however as to be nearly imperceptible; resembling that hue of the rose which is thought to portray the tint of modesty, rather than the dye of the flower in its richer bloom.†   (source)
  • The outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers.†   (source)
  • Neither men of great learning, nor extremely ignorant communities, are to be met with; genius becomes more rare, information more diffused.†   (source)
  • Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.†   (source)
  • The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants, and I also found that a greater degree of plenty reigned there.†   (source)
  • He was interrupted by the youth, who raised a small cup of tin, which dangled at his neck before the other's eyes, and springing its lid, the delicious odour of the finest flavoured honey, diffused itself over the organs of the trapper.†   (source)
  • In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.†   (source)
  • The room was flushed with subdued, diffused brightness; it contained the larger things and—almost always—an odour of flowers.†   (source)
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