pervades

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Then fearfully a quake Pervades the lands, and 'long the lofty skies Run the far rumblings.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

A moment's silence, still as death, Pervades the anxious thrang, man; When sudden bursts the victor's shout, With holla's loud and lang, man.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

A holy peace, Pervades this sea-shore solitude—The world And all who love that world, are far away!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 by Various

The memory of her loveliness Pervades my waking dreams, and, pleasant theft, Deprives my sleep of dark oblivion.

From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar

He reigns!—but mark! how self-reproach Pervades his inmost breast;— And pangs of sad remorse encroach Upon his fever'd rest.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 by Various