Both Uses of
pervasive
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- The sleeve of her green coat brushed his and he smelled her perfume, something delicate and yet pervasive, something like the dense pale petals of lilacs outside the window of the student rooms he'd once occupied in Pittsburgh.†
p. 5.9
- He scanned the room for her again and did not see her, and the first threads of panic began, tiny, pervasive, like the filaments of mushrooms hidden in a log.†
p. 256.3 *
Definition:
existing throughout something; or generally widespread