Citations:all-pervading

English citations of all-pervading

1851
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  • 1851Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
    The Albino is as well made as other men — has no substantive deformity — and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion.
    The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep.