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In the first place, he's so dreadfully conscious of the fact that he has risen from a lower position; and then, again, he's so engrossingly and pervadingly mathematical.

From Philistia by Allen, Grant

Through the dumb town the locomotive bell tolls pervadingly when a train of freight or passengers trundles in from the horizon or out along the dwindling fence of telegraph poles.

From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister, Owen

And as the ages recede, the immanence of the Divine becomes more consciously, more pervadingly present.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)