The sweet, lingering sound seemed to pervade the summer air.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
If I have dwelt somewhat at length on my early life, it is not because I am attempting to give prominence to my own feelings or actions, but that the reader may understand how intense and all-absorbing a feeling of affectionate gratitude may become,-how it may color and pervade a whole existence.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
The frequent changes from place to place, the noise, the new people, the intense haste that seemed to pervade all that went on, addled me to that degree that I had few collected thoughts at the time, and no memory of them afterwards.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever