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  • But this sense of the richness of gossip that permeated Gravesend society is, on my part, largely hindsight.†   (source)
  • The ceiling weighs ten trillion tons; it gives off a permeating cold; it drives his nose into the floor.†   (source)
  • Market day, the humid air, the smell of Chang Sacha's sweet rolls permeating the city square.†   (source)
  • The Sirius Cybernetics Shipboard Computer, which controlled and permeated every particle of the ship, switched into communication mode.†   (source)
  • Anyone who's ever had a cat that's not housebroken can imagine the smells, other than pepper and thyme, that permeate this house.†   (source)
  • Neither experience has prepared me for the wordless, eardrum-piercing, fear-inducing sirens that now permeate 13.†   (source)
  • Not even in sleep is there respite: imagery from the climb and its aftermath continues to permeate my dreams.†   (source)
  • He knew immediately that he was alive, because of the searing pain permeating every cubic centimetre of his body.†   (source)
  • In 1966, when I was nine, black power had permeated every element of my neighborhood in St. Albans, Queens.†   (source)
  • But the smell of mango permeated the ship, and I could not forget we were leaking.†   (source)
  • Vapors can go up your nose with a sniff and permeate your lungs.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be a problem with the gas lines that fed the building, for periodically the scent of uncombusted gas permeated the halls.†   (source)
  • By then we will have seen that flowers permeate this story, as befits a garden party.†   (source)
  • Perhaps teenage angst had permeated the clothes, because I felt more like a sulky high schooler than ever.†   (source)
  • Others can't stop thinking about the smell, even after years; it permeates everything, gives them headaches, makes them nauseous, interferes with their sleep.†   (source)
  • Later still, the band became Agua Caliente (Hot Water) when Latino-rock fusion like Santana, El Chicano and Malo permeated the airwaves in the early '70s.†   (source)
  • As the eucalyptus-infused vapors permeated his skin, he could feel his pores opening to the heat.†   (source)
  • Anticipating the sharp, smoky stink of old urine that permeated the walls and furniture, they clamped their nostrils shut well before the smell began.†   (source)
  • Soon, the smell of the food comes in underneath my door, or maybe it drifts through the thin walls of our house, permeating everything.†   (source)
  • If there had been electrical lights before, they were no longer working, though a faint glow permeated everything.†   (source)
  • An ozone smell permeated the place.†   (source)
  • In fact, this togetherness permeates every aspect of our program here, including our office staff.†   (source)
  • He battened down the guy wires over which Mrs. Verda Carmichael's raspberries were trellised, straightened out the contents of her shadowy toolshed, and bundled up her cedar kindling—all of it permeated by thoughts about Hatsue.†   (source)
  • In this chapter we will see how Christianity gradually began to permeate the Greco-Roman world—more or less the same way that Hilde's world has gradually begun to permeate ours.†   (source)
  • I remember this well, because that was the soap we were issued for laundry; later on, the smell of it would permeate these rooms.†   (source)
  • The tranquil mood that permeated the hollow mountain comforted him, freed him of his usual worries.†   (source)
  • The hurry-scurry, the angry hum of recent weeks had departed; a quivering stillness now permeated the premises.†   (source)
  • She hated that rubbery smell that permeated the air the moment he ripped open the Trojan packet and stayed on his hands until they were finished.†   (source)
  • This would simmer all afternoon and evening, the pungent odor of the fat from the dohmbeh permeating the house.†   (source)
  • The flag is flying, and the smell of sour grease permeates the air.†   (source)
  • A spice-laden shelf runs along one wall, and the scent of lemon and cardamom permeates the air.†   (source)
  • The book says light permeates my skin, that the baby can already see.†   (source)
  • Her speech is a mixture of many things; it is different from the rest of the family's insofar as education has permeated her sense of English—and perhaps the Midwest rather than the South has finally—at last—won out in her inflection; but not altogether, because over all of it is a soft slurring and transformed use of vowels which is the decided influence of the Southside.†   (source)
  • It was festive and beautiful, and the scent of the flowers permeated the air.†   (source)
  • Along the front, sunflowers moved lazily in the breeze, brushing a side window: beneath them were a row of rosebushes, their perfumelike scent permeating the air.†   (source)
  • The reds were dampened, taken down by weather or more paint, deeper permeations, and this brought them ably into the piece.†   (source)
  • Ruined though it was, there was an undeniable atmosphere of magic and mystery about the island that permeated the ground, the trees, the very air itself.†   (source)
  • I stood there absorbing some shock, as if all the sensual pleasures and confusions of these rooms were passing over me like waves and my body were being permeated with these things, so different from the spell of Armand and the tower room where we'd been.†   (source)
  • The pleasant, permeating stink was intoxicating.†   (source)
  • I wanted it to be presentable to the groom's party, but no one could deal with the foul odors that permeated the rooms.†   (source)
  • The smoke and incense that permeated her clothes embarrassed her.†   (source)
  • What permeated his being was fear.†   (source)
  • "If it was some skin-permeating drug on the photograph," she said, as maddeningly soft-spoken as any devil ever had been, "then the effect would have lingered after you dropped it."†   (source)
  • A surreal energy permeated the hall— brisk professionalism tempered by fear and excitement.†   (source)
  • Those beloved, frumpish books gave off a smell that permeated the ward-like flannel pajamas that hadn't been changed for a month, or like Irish stew.†   (source)
  • He wasn't sure which was the most embarrassing: the dirty underwear and socks that were scattered everywhere; the cartoon superhero posters that he hadn't gotten around to taking down; theSports Illustratedbikini posters that he had just gotten around to putting up; or the rancid smell that seemed to permeate the whole squalid mess.†   (source)
  • " Yes, to build, to work, to plan to do something, not for yourself, not for your own benefit, but "beyond thyself"--and when this idea permeates the mind you begin to think in terms of a future.†   (source)
  • Seeking respite from the Washington humidity or just to get away from the office seekers and politicos permeating the White House year-round, the president escapes there alone on horseback most evenings.†   (source)
  • It didn't taste too bad, and its aroma smelled better than the overwhelming scent of urine and stale beer that permeated the place.†   (source)
  • That wonderful laughter lightened the fog-thick solemnness that permeated the campus, and I felt drawn to it.†   (source)
  • The fear did not stop but permeated everywhere.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, almost with no mental preparation, no advance hint, it became clear and permeated my whole being.†   (source)
  • After setting down my tense, distraught little funeral tableau so permeated by human desolation and bereavement, I felt I had earned the right to a few beers and the fellowship of Sophie and Nathan.†   (source)
  • It permeates the world to a ridiculous degree.†   (source)
  • Out of the east crept a permeating greyness; a pearly opaqueness in the sky; the sun-up of another day.†   (source)
  • "Not only do I contain your nervous system," said Taraka, "but I have permeated your entire body and wrapped it all about with the energies of my being.†   (source)
  • He stayed for a week, by which time the foul' stench of decaying fish oil had permeated his clothes and hair, lingering in his nostrils like the smell of death.†   (source)
  • One group of thoughts centered around Tonia, their home, and their former, settled life where everything, down to the smallest detail, had an aura of poetry and was permeated with affection and warmth.†   (source)
  • He did not look as big as he really was, and the fragrance of the flowers was so strong and the vitality of the mourners was so many-souled and so pervasive, and so permeated and compounded by propriety and restraint, and they felt so urgently the force of all the eyes upon them, that they saw their father almost as idly as if he had been a picture, or a substituted image, and felt little realization of his presence and little interest.†   (source)
  • And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation."†   (source)
  • The captain noticed for the first time that there were no windows; the light seemed to permeate the walls.†   (source)
  • Water permeates sand easily
  • An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration
  • This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community.†   (source)
  • The acrid smell of electricity permeated the air.†   (source)
  • THIN REMNANTS OF MOONLIGHT PERMEATED THE WOODS.†   (source)
  • She lit a cigarette and took a long drag, savoring the warmth as it permeated her lungs.†   (source)
  • The noxious tar smell permeates the air.†   (source)
  • The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room.†   (source)
  • It had permeated everything else between them, a state of affairs she sometimes worried over.†   (source)
  • The smell that permeates Lexington is even worse than the smell of Greeley.†   (source)
  • The tree produced a cedar perfume that permeated their skin and clothes.†   (source)
  • Ninety generations later, the O.C. Bible and the Commentaries permeated the religious universe.†   (source)
  • The sound permeates the walls, the floor, Marie-Laure's chest.†   (source)
  • An undeniable excitement permeated the orchard and the low hill known as Idunn Grove.†   (source)
  • The air became intolerably hot, permeated with a smell like rotten eggs.†   (source)
  • A numbing stillness permeated the cabin.†   (source)
  • The smell of kerosene permeated the air.†   (source)
  • The smells of the bloating and diseased dead set before houses permeated the humid air.†   (source)
  • The smell of smoke permeated the air, and Max heard a chorus of shrieks' near the front door.†   (source)
  • Before long, his optimism permeates the entire lot.†   (source)
  • They permeate much of Alagaesia, shaping the land and the destiny of those who live here.†   (source)
  • He had just finished a stint rowing and a cold, jagged ache permeated his right shoulder.†   (source)
  • Now that they had reached Narda, a sense of hope and accomplishment permeated the camp.†   (source)
  • They permeate the grain in wood, metal, and stone.†   (source)
  • Then, sanctuary had the smell of incense-permeated walls.†   (source)
  • All day, they ran around, making up lively games, unaware of the stench of feces and urine that permeated Walayat and their own bodies, unmindful of the Talib guards until one smacked them.†   (source)
  • Sickness permeates a room like steam.†   (source)
  • We'd tried to conceal what we were doing, cooking it up over a small butane stove in the corner of Chuck and Susie's bedroom, but I was sure that the smell of the cooking had permeated through the walls.†   (source)
  • The bay windows were so encrusted with grime that very little daylight could permeate the room, which was lit instead with the stubs of candles sitting on rough wooden tables.†   (source)
  • Music permeated the air.†   (source)
  • And if he really did rise from the dead, if he really died for our sake—then this is so overwhelming that it must permeate our entire life.†   (source)
  • The room was permeated with the distinctive acrid furry odor of a Fremen sietch that she had come to associate with a sense of security.†   (source)
  • She groped for it, realizing she was being impeded by a muzziness of the changed drug permeating her senses.†   (source)
  • She sensed an immediate difference in the air about his face …. but it was only the spice, the ubiquitous spice whose odor permeated everything in Fremen life.†   (source)
  • Moreover, magic would be required to fend off the poison that had permeated the air, the stone, and all of the objects within the sprawling warren of the fortress.†   (source)
  • We have lived here for thousands of years, and old spells still linger in unexpected places; magic permeates the air, the water, and the earth.†   (source)
  • Mark and his new friends cleared the entire fifteenth floor, but the rank stench still permeates the air.†   (source)
  • Since we were on the top floor, we were spared the water itself, but the smell of the mildew from the lower apartments permeated everything, and God only knew what kind of mold was in the walls.†   (source)
  • I liked her body on mine and I liked the faint scent of charcoal and the frankincense that permeated her clothes.†   (source)
  • A dull roar, like distant surf, filled the cabin, but no flames managed to permeate the solid wall behind them.†   (source)
  • He was rarely present in the household, and he almost never spoke to his family other than to call them to prayer or to read from the Koran to them, yet his influence permeated the house.†   (source)
  • However, though I am shielding you from this spell, you cannot escape magic in Du Weldenvarden; it permeates everything.†   (source)
  • Before long the scent of food permeated the glade and elves appeared carrying platters piled with delicacies.†   (source)
  • Our magic, dragons' magic-which permeates every fiber of our being-was transmitted to the elves and, in time, gave them their much-vaunted strength and grace.†   (source)
  • The biggest change, however, was not so much in her dress but her bearing; the brittle tension that had permeated her demeanor ever since Eragon first met her was now gone.†   (source)
  • Often since then I have tried to define and give a name to the enchantment that you communicated to me that night, that faint glow, that distant echo, which later permeated my whole being and gave me a key to the understanding of everything in the world.†   (source)
  • The foot draws back once more and she waits, trembling now less with fear or pain than with the permeating soggy autumnal chill in her legs, her arms, her bones.†   (source)
  • There was an awed silence as the odor of freshly ground coffee permeated the theater.†   (source)
  • She was not ugly: her face was simply permeated with the implacable dullness of the Mid-Westerner.†   (source)
  • The throb in his ankle was growing in depth, in dullness of pain, permeating upward like an aching tide within the marrow.†   (source)
  • He could smell the horse; he could hear the dry plaint of the light wheels in the weightless permeant dust and he seemed to feel the dust itself move sluggish and dry across his sweating flesh just as he seemed to hear the single profound suspiration of the parched earth's agony rising toward the imponderable and aloof stars.†   (source)
  • It is not only that they celebrate male virtues, enforce male values and describe the world of men; it is that the emotion with which these books are permeated is to a woman incomprehensible.†   (source)
  • Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself.†   (source)
  • Myth remains, necessarily, within the cycle, but represents this cycle as surrounded and permeated by the silence.†   (source)
  • The scene was cut out with such intensity and so permeated with the quality of his vision that for a moment I could see it too; the punt, the bananas, the young man, through the branches of the willow tree.†   (source)
  • For women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.†   (source)
  • …threshold (which moment opened to him the timelessness of the void beyond the frustrating mirage-enigmas of the named and bounded cosmos), he paused: he made a vow that before entering the void he would bring all creatures without exception to enlightenment; and since then he has permeated the whole texture of existence with the divine grace of his assisting presence, so that the least prayer addressed to him, throughout the vast spiritual empire of the Buddha, is graciously heard.†   (source)
  • And at this an icy chill seemed to permeate the entire courtroom as well as Clyde.†   (source)
  • Thoughts are a strangely permeating factor.†   (source)
  • Hare had a sensation of extreme lassitude, a deep drowsiness which permeated even to his bones.†   (source)
  • That night her sleep was permeated with the steady low whirring of the wheels.†   (source)
  • It seemed that the horrid odor of dip and sheep had permeated everything.†   (source)
  • His grace was more permeating because it found a readier medium.†   (source)
  • A breathing, lonely spirit of solitude permeated the black dell.†   (source)
  • Morrel, overpowered, turned around in the arm-chair; a delicious torpor permeated every vein.†   (source)
  • He was not temporarily overlaid with the colour; it permeated him.†   (source)
  • Right off, I detected an odor permeating the compartment that was sui generis.†   (source)
  • He was permeated with its scenes, with its substance, and with its odours.†   (source)
  • Each became permeated with the other, they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other.†   (source)
  • The earth, permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall.†   (source)
  • He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with shadow and modesty.†   (source)
  • The history of manners and ideas permeates the history of events, and this is true reciprocally.†   (source)
  • Our friend, Gania, belonged to the other class—to the "much cleverer" persons, though he was from head to foot permeated and saturated with the longing to be original.†   (source)
  • In a few moments a fire was burning brightly, water was boiling, pots were steaming, the odor of venison permeated the cool air.†   (source)
  • He poured the words softly into the half-darkness until she seemed to permeate the room; the wet salt breeze filled his hair with moisture, the rim of a moon seared the sky and made the curtains dim and ghostly.†   (source)
  • It's like a huge barn with its characteristic odor permeated by tobacco smoke," replied Madeline, sitting down beside Florence.†   (source)
  • With the drooping of day his keenness had evaporated; an habitual indifference strengthened, permeating him….†   (source)
  • The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.†   (source)
  • It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.†   (source)
  • It was the element of his nature which permeated all his acts and passions and emotions; he raged abjectly, smiled abjectly, was abjectly sad; his civilities and his indignations were alike abject.†   (source)
  • The stars above were wan in a paling sky; a camp fire crackled with newly burning sticks; the odor of wood smoke permeated the air.†   (source)
  • My body, conscious that its own warmth was permeating hers, would strive to become one with her, and I would awake.†   (source)
  • Buffalo began to pile high over the one that had fallen, and a wave of action seemed to permeate all of them.†   (source)
  • All the time that she dressed and thought, her very being seemed to be permeated by that soft murmuring sound of falling water.†   (source)
  • The whole courtyard was permeated by a strong peaceful smell of stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment.†   (source)
  • Introduced as lymph on the dart of Eros, it eventually permeated and coloured her whole constitution.†   (source)
  • The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization.†   (source)
  • I had thought it all out, but to no avail because the carbon dioxide produced by our breathing permeated every part of the ship.†   (source)
  • Instead of that air of life, of comfort, and of happiness that permeates a flourishing and prosperous business establishment—instead of merry faces at the windows, busy clerks hurrying to and fro in the long corridors—instead of the court filled with bales of goods, re-echoing with the cries and the jokes of porters, one would have immediately perceived all aspect of sadness and gloom.†   (source)
  • Probably as many as fifty were thus inserted, some into the head of the wax model, some into the shoulders, some into the trunk, some upwards through the soles of the feet, till the figure was completely permeated with pins.†   (source)
  • Her whole person, permeated with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a splendid melancholy.†   (source)
  • The spirit of the convent, with which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything tremble around her.†   (source)
  • As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, now menacing.†   (source)
  • The old principal lodger, a cross-looking creature, who was thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean a great deal, without his suspecting the fact.†   (source)
  • Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that millionaire of stars.†   (source)
  • Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children.†   (source)
  • The same scent that permeated Mrs. Graham's practical blue cotton and wafted from the corrugations of her bony chest.†   (source)
  • That diffuses itself all through the body, permeates.†   (source)
  • There might have been lapses of an erring father but he wanted to turn over a new leaf and now, when at long last in sight of the whipping post, to lead a homely life in the evening of his days, permeated by the affectionate surroundings of the heaving bosom of the family.†   (source)
  • Thou laws invisible that permeate them and all, Thou that in all, and over all, and through and under all, incessant!†   (source)
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