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  • "What could Dona Fefita do to protect me even if I were in danger?" I had a brief, ludicrous picture of the old, rather heavy woman banging a SIM calie over the head with her ubiquitous black purse.   (source)
    ubiquitous = being present all the time (that is, she seems to carry the purse with her everywhere)
  • In India, for example, brothels are technically illegal—but, as we said earlier, they are ubiquitous; the same is true in Cambodia.   (source)
    ubiquitous = common (seemingly present everywhere)
  • Bacteria were ubiquitous.   (source)
    ubiquitous = being present everywhere
  • No system's foolproof, or completely breach resistant--even the ubiquitous Compuguard.   (source)
  • Our illustrious chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said that the ubiquitous 'we' could get rid of the military because in six months 'we' would have all the controls we needed in Europe.   (source)
    ubiquitous = omnipresent (being present everywhere)
  • They walked for several more blocks before Cooper finally stopped at a small bookstore built of the ubiquitous sandy stone.   (source)
    ubiquitous = being present everywhere
  • ...the ubiquitous little air-cars had washed away the last barriers between the different tribes of mankind.   (source)
    ubiquitous = present everywhere
  • He tries to smoothe it again, clumsily, his hand awkward as a claw, smoothing at the wrinkles which he made and which continue to emerge beneath his hand with perverse ubiquity, so that at last he desists, his hand falling to his side and stroking itself again, palm and back, on his thigh.   (source)
    ubiquity = being everywhere all the time
  • The ubiquitous handmaiden promptly appeared,   (source)
    ubiquitous = seeming to be present everywhere
  • Sallie Gardiner was absorbed in keeping her white pique dress clean and chattering with the ubiquitous Fred, who kept Beth in constant terror by his pranks.   (source)
    ubiquitous = always present
  • the two ubiquitous young Cratchits   (source)
    ubiquitous = seeming to be present all the time
  • During the days, when Richard was at his office and Winifred was ubiquitous, I tried to get away from the house as much as I could.†   (source)
  • After eight years it was, even for my mother, like the ubiquitous photo of a celebrity.†   (source)
  • No longer evident are the ubiquitous weirwood and leafy chalma.†   (source)
  • So there is a ubiquity to Shakespeare's work that makes it rather like a sacred text: at some very deep level he is ingrained in our psyches.†   (source)
  • To use any of the Circle's tools, and they were the best tools, the most dominant and ubiquitous and free, you had to do so as yourself, as your actual self, as your TruYou.†   (source)
  • To my relief I honestly did not know any of the names he read—now I understood the wisdom of the ubiquitous "Mr.†   (source)
  • This sort of thing is not an oddity-it is ubiquitous.†   (source)
  • But crime and fast food have become so ubiquitous in American society that their frequent combination usually goes unnoticed.†   (source)
  • Embroidered hangings decorated the walls, along with the dwarves' ubiquitous flameless lanterns, while the ceiling had been carved to depict a famous battle from dwarven history.†   (source)
  • I kept my roosarie pulled securely over my face, so as not to attract the attention of the pasdar the ubiquitous and frightening secret police.†   (source)
  • The Fugees had other opportunities—two free kicks and a handful of corner kicks—but time and again the plays were broken up by a ubiquitous presence for the Fire:†   (source)
  • Yet in this ubiquitous restlessness there was nothing alarming, for the whole forest took part in it and the only sound was the soft, steady movement of the leaves.†   (source)
  • It was ubiquitous, with every category of crime falling in every part of the country.†   (source)
  • That was how the legend of the ubiquitous Colonel Aureliano Buendia, began.†   (source)
  • It was well appointed, with the ubiquitous "I Love Me" Wall that was filled with photos of the flag officer and his famous friends.†   (source)
  • It was lit from the ubiquitous sun, but felt none of the day's heat; the boy kept the hawk here and the bird seemed comfortable enough.†   (source)
  • The sacks under his eyes turned hollow and black, and he padded through the shadows fruitlessly like a ubiquitous spook.†   (source)
  • He'd have to get used to the horns again-they were as ubiquitous as road markings here.†   (source)
  • Infectious and parasitic illnesses were ubiquitous, and there was no public health system to measure their extent or even to identify them, let alone a clinic in the area to cure them.†   (source)
  • And because of the ubiquity of computer systems, it would make those stereotypes even stronger.†   (source)
  • There was a ubiquitous stink to the platoons of freshmen, and it was the first time I had ever prayed for rain.†   (source)
  • Those machines are ubiquitous.†   (source)
  • The GID was a bit more civilized than its brutal Iraqi and Egyptian counterparts, though no less ubiquitous.†   (source)
  • This scarcely makes a dent on Hobbs, who in any event is able to direct his bile upon a much easier and more ubiquitous target, especially in this part of Va.†   (source)
  • He was a silent, ubiquitous small boy.†   (source)
  • It was as if I were experiencing something no man had ever known before, something cosmic, magnificent, ubiquitous yet commonly ignored.†   (source)
  • This ubiquitous fragrance seemed to be preceding the train on its journey north as if it were some sort of rumor that had reached even the smallest, local stations, and which the passengers always found waiting for them on arrival, heard and confirmed by everyone.†   (source)
  • So they turned and their walk could still go on along shore, past the black pits of fires and the ubiquitous, ugly, naked sea onions, until they reached rocks; then it led up to the overlooking wall.†   (source)
  • He was not given time to consider this as one of the ubiquitous strangers came up and said briskly, "Can you tell me where to find a lad named Roderick Welker?"†   (source)
  • They sat and smoked atop tanks, dressed in their fatigues and ubiquitous pakols.   (source)
    ubiquitous = seen everywhere
  • He sat at her desk, his ubiquitous bag of sugared nuts in his lap, and a scowl on his wrinkled face.   (source)
    ubiquitous = seemingly always present
  • Nap time was eternal in the Eternal City--the ubiquitous public dozing a perfected extension of the afternoon siestas born of ancient Spain.   (source)
    ubiquitous = seeming to be everywhere all the time
  • On the side was their ubiquitous logo, the words ZEITOUN A. PAINTING CONTRACTOR next to a paint roller resting at the end of a rainbow.   (source)
    ubiquitous = seemingly present everywhere
  • Flashbacks, in which men reexperienced their traumas and were unable to distinguish the illusion from reality, were common. Intense nightmares were almost ubiquitous.   (source)
    ubiquitous = always present for everyone
  • ...as if he had never heard of ubiquitous Jacques in his time.   (source)
    ubiquitous = being present everywhere
  • This phrase was ubiquitous in modern translations of Hebrew scripture.†   (source)
  • The ubiquitous ambassador whose death was called for-paid for, the contract accepted by Carlos.†   (source)
  • Like a metaphor rendered incomprehensible by its ubiquity, there was room enough in what she had left me for endless imaginings, for an infinite set of Margos.†   (source)
  • The town is too small and he is too conspicuous, his position too precarious, the Governor's wife too pious, the enemies of Reform too ubiquitous.†   (source)
  • And so, unless your ambitions have been spurred by this discussion, I'll stick to the sonnet, for one single reason: no other poem is so versatile, so ubiquitous, so various, so agreeably short as the sonnet.†   (source)
  • Fast food has become a target because it is so ubiquitous and because it threatens a fundamental aspect of national identity: how, where, and what people choose to eat.†   (source)
  • The ubiquitous phrase "artificial strawberry flavor" gives little hint of the chemical wizardry and manufacturing skill that can make a highly processed food taste like a strawberry.†   (source)
  • The drug trade ran so rampant and gang warfare was so ubiquitous in that part of Brooklyn that most people would take to the safety of their apartment at nightfall.†   (source)
  • The horses were on the cover of Newsweek as well as the ubiquitous Radio Guide, which showed War Admiral galloping, Seabiscuit yawning.†   (source)
  • Such things were ubiquitous.†   (source)
  • He felt a marmot warm in her burrow, ravens, nuthatches, and hawks, numerous squirrels running among the trees, and, farther down the mountain, rock snakes undulating through the brush in search of the mice that were their prey, as well as the hordes of ubiquitous insects.†   (source)
  • The Rapex is a reflection of the gender-based violence that is ubiquitous in much of the developing world, inflicting far more casualties than any war.†   (source)
  • They were infected with a rotten virus called unaccountability, and more than a few millionaires were made in the ubiquitous Command Saigon.†   (source)
  • He winced at the many tortured nights she had spent in the hospital, drugged or in pain, with the ubiquitous, ineradicable odors of ether, fecal matter and disinfectant, of human flesh mortified and decaying amid the white uniforms, the rubbersoled shoes, and the eerie night lights glowing dimly until dawn in the corridors.†   (source)
  • Through the open doorways Puller could see an old fire truck with rotted wheels in one bay, and the ubiquitous fire pole just beyond it.†   (source)
  • Or a view of farmers walking along with machetes, a ubiquitous sight, Deo murmuring, "Every time I see a machete, I just feel like ….†   (source)
  • There are plenty of advertising executives who think that precisely because of the sheer ubiquity of marketing efforts these days, word-of-mouth appeals have become the only kind of persuasion that most of us respond to anymore.†   (source)
  • She argues that ubiquitous gang rape in civil wars isn't about sexual gratification, but rather is a way for military units--including their female members--to bond, by engaging in sometimes brutally misogynistic violence.†   (source)
  • When the holocaust he had ignited was at its zenith, the Jackal would abandon the truck and put into play his means of escape-his escape to Paris, the real Paris, where his army of old men would spread the word of their monseigneur's triumph over the ubiquitous, disbelieving Soviets.†   (source)
  • He blamed the absence on the ubiquitous whipping boy of southern education—the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.†   (source)
  • In the total telling, it made him at once the most mobile and ubiquitous private in the history of warfare.†   (source)
  • Overhead the droning airplane with its trailing banner, ubiquitous that Brooklyn summer against cloud-streaked ultramarine, advertised more nightly thrills at the hippodrome of Aqueduct.†   (source)
  • At the entrance a group of guards formed a piece of improbable statuary, watched over by yet another of the ubiquitous spheres.†   (source)
  • The guest speaker of the day was the ubiquitous Ezra Bennington, whom Mrs. Brown introduced as "the best friend Yamacraw ever had."†   (source)
  • Though Jeff never left the Island, he could see all that he wished of the surrounding world through the ubiquitous eye of the television screen.†   (source)
  • I can imagine her engineering that courtship, supplying Judith and Bon with opportunities for trysts and pledges with a coy and unflagging ubiquity which they must have tried in vain to evade and escape,†   (source)
  • The World Navel, then, is ubiquitous.†   (source)
  • The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero's passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women, wherever they may stand along the scale.†   (source)
  • …least hoped he would not) and hence no man had a father, no one personal Porto Rico or Haiti, but all mother faces which ever bred swooping down at those almost calculable moments out of some obscure ancient general affronting and outraging which the actual living articulate meat had not even suffered but merely inherited; all boy flesh that walked and breathed stemming from that one ambiguous eluded dark fatherhead and so brothered perennial and ubiquitous everywhere under the sun—†   (source)
  • And the numerous saints of this anticult—namely the patriots whose ubiquitous photographs, draped with flags, serve as official icons—are precisely the local threshold guardians (our demon Sticky-hair) whom it is the first problem of the hero to surpass.†   (source)
  • …force not only the elder sister's bridegroom but the wedding too down the throat of a town which did not want it, growing up in that closed masonry of females to see in the fact of her own breathing not only the lone justification for the sacrifice of her mother's life, not only a living and walking reproach to her father, but a breathing indictment ubiquitous and even transferable of the entire male principle (that principle which had left the aunt a virgin at thirty-five) above dust.†   (source)
  • This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power.†   (source)
  • Briefly formulated, the universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the world—all things and beings—are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during the period of their manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve.†   (source)
  • Viracocha, therefore, in this manner of manifesting his ubiquity, participates in the character of the highest of the universal gods.†   (source)
  • One can demolish a mass; bow can one extirpate ubiquity?†   (source)
  • He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt was possible with him.†   (source)
  • …blood there in circulation it would make less frequent the chokings and other pains to which she was liable; besides, in the life of complete inertia which she led she attached to the least of her sensations an extraordinary importance, endowed them with a Protean ubiquity which made it difficult for her to keep them secret, and, failing a confidant to whom she might communicate them, she used to promulgate them to herself in an unceasing monologue which was her sole form of activity.†   (source)
  • —Later Rosemary and the Norths and a manufacturer of dolls' voices from Newark and ubiquitous Collis and a big splendidly dressed oil Indian named George T. Horseprotection were riding along on top of thousands of carrots in a market wagon.†   (source)
  • Down out of the blue it would rush, as it dropped upon him changing itself into the ubiquitous electric car.†   (source)
  • He rubbed his hands together, with content, as he thought of the web which he had woven, and through which that ubiquitous and daring Englishman could not hope to escape.†   (source)
  • …around him the thrilling possibility of her suddenly appearing: in the courtyard of the Chateau, now beautiful in his eyes since it was on her account that he had gone to visit it; in all the streets of the town, which struck him as romantic; down every ride of the forest, roseate with the deep and tender glow of sunset;—innumerable and alternative hiding-places, to which would fly simultaneously for refuge, in the uncertain ubiquity of his hopes, his happy, vagabond and divided heart.†   (source)
  • In conversation with some State Department people on the boat,—Europeanized Americans who had reached a position where they could scarcely have been said to belong to any nation at all, at least not to any great power though perhaps to a Balkan-like state composed of similar citizens—the name of the ubiquitously renowned Baby Warren had occurred and it was remarked that Baby's younger sister had thrown herself away on a dissipated doctor.†   (source)
  • One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.†   (source)
  • The unity, the ubiquity, the omnipotence of the supreme power, and the uniformity of its rules, constitute the principal characteristics of all the political systems which have been put forward in our age.†   (source)
  • But it was as if something large and confused, something dark and ugly, would have to call upon him: he was not after all in harmony with mere smug peace and greed and gain, an order of things of which the vital breath was ubiquitous advertisement.†   (source)
  • There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case—the soul,— and therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects and discuss theses.†   (source)
  • It was an inconsistent and ubiquitous fiend too, for, while it was making the whole night behind him dreadful, he darted out into the roadway to avoid dark alleys, fearful of its coming hopping out of them like a dropsical boy's-Kite without tail and wings.†   (source)
  • …such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be…†   (source)
  • …intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined…†   (source)
  • One of the ubiquitous small boys stood without, bearing an invitation from Colum himself.†   (source)
  • From then on until he had you completely subjugated he was always in or out of your room, ubiquitous and garrulous, though his manner gradually moved northward as his raiment improved, until at last when he had bled youuntil you began to learn better he was calling you Quentin or whatever, and when you saw him next he'd be wearinga cast-off Brooks suitand a hat witha Princeton club I forget which band that someone had given him and which he was pleasantly and unshakably convinced was a…†   (source)
  • …scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.†   (source)
  • Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of…†   (source)
  • Ubiquity Of Apparition For the Cause of Sense, an ubiquity of Species; that is, of the Shews or Apparitions of objects; which when they be Apparitions to the Eye, is Sight; when to the Eare, Hearing; to the Palate, Tast; to the Nostrill, Smelling; and to the rest of the Body, Feeling.†   (source)
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