Diffuse widely

Usage examples of pervade.

Sitting alone in the darkness amplified the torpor that had pervaded me, and though I sensed certain unsettling dissonances surrounding what had just taken place, I was not sufficiently alert to consider them as other than aggravations.

He had later claimed that it was an unintentional error and he had been given the benefit of the doubt, since it was not impossible that after a day of harassing visits he should have mistaken the ampoule, all the more so considering the semi-darkness pervading the sick room.

As I went through my antemeridian routine, I discovered that I harbored the same mixed mood that had pervaded my weekend, and I can only describe it as being precariously happy.

Our textbooks do not teach against the archetype of the savage Indian that pervades popular culture.

CHAPTER I DYING WORDS A SPECTRAL gloom seemed to pervade the room where Josiah Bartram lay.

In consequence of their endlessly varied, constantly recurring, intensely earnest speculations and musings over this contrast of finite restlessness and pain with infinite peace and blessedness, a contrast which constitutes the preaching of their priests, saturates their sacred books, fills their thoughts, and broods over all their life, the Orientals are pervaded with a profound horror of individual existence, and with a profound desire for absorption into the Infinite Being.

Any man who heartily believed what Christ said that he was Divinely authorized to declare, and did declare, the pervading goodness of the Father and the immortal blessedness of the souls of his children, by the very terms was delivered from the bondage of fear and commenced the consciousness of eternal life.

The established authority of the emperors pervaded without an effort the wide extent of their dominions, and was exercised with the same facility on the banks of the Thames, or of the Nile, as on those of the Tiber.

A feeling of irritation pervaded the public mind in Italy, and the army had not proceeded three marches beyond Mantua when an insurrection broke out in Milan.

This motion was plausible, and this time the obstructor spoke plausibly, concealing the temper which really pervaded his opposition.

PlasHein Square, confusion and fear pervading him, darkness and noise all around, pressing in, choking, crushing.

Within minutes he was on horseback, trotting through the sunlit streets as quickly as the busy citizens would allow, his control still icy and pervading both his horse and Kerna, riding behind him.

Cassraw that he barely noticed the agitation that was pervading the Witness House when he reached it.

And then there was no summit, no Nertha, and no Whistler, save for his frantic trilling call pervading everything.

It had helped him even further to note the almost sprightly air that was pervading the old man.