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I say almost, for there was a solitary spot in his consciousness which felt numb and dead -- unpervaded by the joy with which the rest of his spirit seemed to thrill and tingle.
Confidence 1879
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Mauves, bringing example to the confirmation of precept, had made a remunerative match and sacrificed her name to the millions of a prosperous and aspiring wholesale druggist -- a gentleman liberal enough to regard his fortune as a moderate price for being towed into circles unpervaded by pharmaceutic odours.
Madame De Mauves Henry James 1879
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Household cares are a drudgery only when unpervaded by sentiment.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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He who has set his heart on the biggest cabbages and best potatoes in town must cultivate them in ground open to the sky, and unpervaded by any roots except their own.
The Home Acre Edward Payson Roe 1863
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'No! we cannot leave society while one clod remains unpervaded by divine life.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851
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That the Old Testament is unpervaded by any distinct traces of expectations of a future life is, at all events, not the opinion of the majority of men, many of them at least as capable of judging as Mr. Newman.
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Henry Rogers 1841
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'No! we cannot leave society while one clod remains unpervaded by divine life.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Margaret Fuller 1830
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As soon as I can, I shall take refuge in the mountains, if it be possible to find an obscure nook unpervaded by these convulsions.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
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