Not only a tang, but a thrill, seemed to come pervasively on the cool air.

No other people's literature is so intensely and pervasively religious.

The Aeneid, on the contrary, exhibits the enormous development of the social idea; its subject is Roman dominion, which is the will of Zeus, localized in the struggle with Carthage and with Turnus, but felt in the poem pervasively as the general destiny of Rome in its victory over the world; and this interest is so overpowering as to make Aeneas the slave of Jove and almost to extinguish the other characters; it is a state-epic.

The spirit of the dead leader haunted pervasively the shades where he had laboured and died.