Example Sentences

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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.

From The Home Acre by Roe, Edward Payson

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.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.