All 3 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By degrees a more charitable temper had pervaded him, and this was the reason of his sally to-night.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- CHAPTER XXXIX COMING HOME—A CRY On the turnpike road, between Casterbridge and Weatherbury, and about three miles from the former place, is Yalbury Hill, one of those steep long ascents which pervade the highways of this undulating part of South Wessex.†
Chpt 37-39
- The strange luminous semi-opacities of fine autumn afternoons and eves intensified into Rembrandt effects the few yellow sunbeams which came through holes and divisions in the canvas, and spirted like jets of gold-dust across the dusky blue atmosphere of haze pervading the tent, until they alighted on inner surfaces of cloth opposite, and shone like little lamps suspended there.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(pervasive) existing throughout something; or generally widespread