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Sentences ending with penetrate

Old age leaps upon it as his saddle, and rides triumphant, unchallenged, until the darkness comes which no glasses can penetrate. [6]
I find myself suddenly checked and stopped short, in the execution of my design, by a mystery which I cannot penetrate. [12]
So you see it must take time to bring the sentiment of a poem into harmony with our nature, by staining ourselves through every thought and image our being can penetrate. [6]
But the dreary discipline of the household had sunk into her soul, and she had been shaping an internal life for herself, which it was hard for friendship to penetrate. [6]
Into the domestic arrangement of the house, however important, we need not penetrate. [9]

More example sentences with the word penetrate in them

What bliss it would be if she was permitted to penetrate deeply into his soul, if it were allotted to her to make the ruler's grave eyes sparkle with radiant delight! [10]
The farther she travelled, the more she seemed to penetrate into a land of unrealities. [9]
Washington was unable to penetrate the designs of the British commander, or to obtain any trusty information of the intentions or the movements of the British army. [4]
She felt all the time as if she might at any moment penetrate that on which--with a terrible questioning too great for her strength--her spiritual gaze was fixed. [2]
She had inherited the kindly shrewdness of glance characteristic of gentlefolk, the glance that seeks to penetrate externals in its concern for the well-being of those whom it scrutinizes. [9]
They must penetrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of reason and the love of liberty. [7]
My intellect might strain to penetrate the secrets of your sages, but my heart and mind can never be at home in a creed which views life as a short pilgrimage to the grave, and death as the only true life! [10]
Here, too, he sought to penetrate the nature of death. [10]
Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? [2]
A stone might possibly penetrate to us once in a while, but it wasn't very likely; we were well protected by boughs and foliage, and were not visible from any good aiming point. [5]
It seemed to penetrate into the very bones of the shrinking wayfarers, and to rack them with cold and pains. [12]
Though he camp on the Upper Au Sable, or penetrate the forest where rolls the Allegash, and hear no sound save his own allegations, he will not escape it. [4]
Yet undeniably something of the romance of adventure in a visit to the White Hills is wanting, now that the railways penetrate every valley, and all the physical obstacles of the journey are removed. [4]
Only the surface of the phenomena on which he fixed his eyes had been visible to him; he had not learned to penetrate further into their nature, fathom them to their depths, until he became blind. [10]
The mortal does not breathe, nor ever will, who can penetrate the secret of that spell, and without that secret none can break it. [5]
He stood regarding me a full minute, his eye seeming to penetrate the secrets of my life. [9]
There, in quiet leisure, he hopes to strive for knowledge and to penetrate deeply into all the new things which were discovered, invented, created, and improved during his reign, and of which he was permitted to learn far too little thoroughly. [10]
The announcement of it would resound throughout the world, penetrate to the remotest lands, paralyze all the nations with amazement --and carry his name with it, and make him renowned forever. [5]
It seemed as if the light then kindled would not only continue to burn, but would penetrate all the dark and stolid communities. [4]
Vast as are his physical proportions, I knew that the thirst for revenge would penetrate to the remotest frontiers of his person. [5]
Every effort I have made to penetrate it, has only served to render it darker and more obscure; and I am afraid to stir openly in the matter, lest those whom I anxiously pursue, should fly still farther from me. [12]
Little was said, for it was plain that her thoughts were driven by the imposing view before her to penetrate forwards to the regions of unfading glory. [14]
When recently from England came the news of the discovery of vaccination and I saw how a small drop could penetrate through a man's entire system, then I regretted that my father had thrown away the elixir. [10]
The sneer from Eliphalet's seemed to penetrate like a chilly draught. [9]
This was Speranski's cold, mirrorlike look, which did not allow one to penetrate to his soul, and his delicate white hands, which Prince Andrew involuntarily watched as one does watch the hands of those who possess power. [2]
My liege, as clear as the vision of an eagle does my prophetic eye penetrate and lay bare the future of this world for nearly thirteen centuries and a half! [5]
The sunshine from behind the hill did not penetrate into the cutting and there it was cold and damp, but above Pierre's head was the bright August sunshine and the bells sounded merrily. [2]
She said only a few kind words, but in a voice which seemed to penetrate the inmost depths of her heart and bind her with invisible threads. [10]

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