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The theory is something like this: Space is pervaded by luminiferous ether, which is a material thing--as much a substance as air or water, though almost infinitely more attenuated.

The recuperative power which pervaded organic nature was surely not denied to maidenhood alone.

On the 31st of October, at ten o'clock in the morning, the troop disembarked on the quays of Tampa Town; and one may imagine the activity which pervaded that little town, whose population was thus doubled in a single day.

Gradually all noises diminished, until the suppressed cough denoted that it was necessary to avoid singularity, and the most pro found stillness pervaded the apartment.

Another nuisance was the atmosphere of Royalism, of Legitimacy, that pervaded the room, thin as air, intangible, as though no Legitimist of flesh and blood had ever existed to the man's mind except perhaps myself.

That she knew that we were about to return to Pellucidar was evident, for immediately her manner changed from that of habitual gloom that had pervaded her, to an almost human expression of contentment and delight.

According to his account, my unfortunate Ancestor, being afflicted with rheumatism, and in the act of being felt by a Polygon, by one sudden start accidentally transfixed the Great Man through the diagonal; and thereby, partly in consequence of his long imprisonment and degradation, and partly because of the moral shock which pervaded the whole of my Ancestor's relations, threw back our family a degree and a half in their ascent towards better things.

A sombre, yet beautiful and peaceful gloom here pervaded all things.

Over easels and PowerPoint and after-hours beers, they discussed the rewilding idea and broke it down to its factual nuts and bolts, its practical challenges and criticisms, its societal costs and benefits." The group, which included Earth First eco-terrorist Dave Foreman, came up with what Stolzenberg described as "several sobering premises," including: "That human influence had utterly pervaded the planet.

The judges, on balance, felt that this had successfully been achieved, and that a feeling of serenity pervaded the design, doubtless helped by the simplicity of the plan and the cloister reference in what is in part, at least, a community resource.

Weinstein, whose son Casey is an Academy graduate and whose son Curtis currently is enrolled at the Academy, asserts that the institution is pervaded with officially sanctioned evangelical Christian influence.

As the silence that is germane to the medium becomes figurally pervaded with sound, it gives way to an aesthetic that is autonomous, in that it resists translation into words, but is not apolitical.