All 7 Uses of
pervasive
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness.†
Scene 1 *pervading = spreading or filling
- Yet, although I saw that the features of Ligeia were not of a classic regularity—although I perceived that her loveliness was indeed "exquisite," and felt that there was much of "strangeness" pervading it, yet I have tried in vain to detect the irregularity and to trace home my own perception of "the strange."†
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- For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness.†
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- There was now a partial glow upon the forehead and upon the cheek and throat; a perceptible warmth pervaded the whole frame; there was even a slight pulsation at the heart.†
Scene 1pervaded = spread or filled
- I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.†
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- An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.†
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- An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm.†
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Definition:
existing throughout something; or generally widespread