All 3 Uses of
pervasive
in
The Age of Innocence
- He tried to analyse the trick, to find a clue to it in the way the chairs and tables were grouped, in the fact that only two Jacqueminot roses (of which nobody ever bought less than a dozen) had been placed in the slender vase at his elbow, and in the vague pervading perfume that was not what one put on handkerchiefs, but rather like the scent of some far-off bazaar, a smell made up of Turkish coffee and ambergris and dried roses.†
Chpt 9
- In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger, and plunged into a reminiscence of the wedding-breakfast and of Granny Mingott's immense and triumphant pervasion of it.†
Chpt 19 *
- Now, by some queer process of association, that golden light became for him the pervading illumination in which she lived.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(pervasive) existing throughout something; or generally widespread