It is a world which has sound in it, distant cries and penetrative calls, and low mysterious notes, as of insects and corncrakes, and frogs chirping and of grasshopper warblers-sounds like wind in the dry sedges.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Apparently, no amount of woollen wraps, no double thickness of green veil to keep the glare out, no smoked glasses with flanges to make it harmless if it gets in, can obscure the Goody's penetrative powers when invoked for the discomfiture of her kind.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
It seemed to no one a matter of any importance, and even Annie that day had none of the penetrative insight which belongs to "that finer atmosphere, Where footfalls of appointed things, Reverberant of days to be, Are heard in forecast echoings, Like wave beats from a viewless sea."
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr