No other people's literature is so intensely and pervasively religious.
"The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible"
R. Heber Newton
In England the fierce fervor of the Chartist movement, with its violent rhetoric as to the rights of man, was sobering down and passing pervasively into numerous practical schemes for social and political amelioration, constituting in their entirety a most profound change throughout every part of the national life.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
And it almost distressed him to see the touch of genial commonplaceness expressing itself pervasively in the big bowls and jars and vases of pink roses that burgeoned everywhere.
"The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece"
Anne Douglas Sedgwick