penetrate
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“The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl,” he writes in “Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter.”
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2010
But holy compassion and sacred pity Penetrate my heart, When I now gaze upon you yonder, Deserted gods!
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
Penetrate the deep fringe of forest and morass on foot, however, and smiling prairies are found beyond, stretching to the horizon and cut up into prosperous farms.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
Penetrate 10 feet into one of these plots, which are always damp from much watering, and it takes little imagining to fancy yourself in an equatorial jungle.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard
Brave son of Hesperus! no mortal hand Has led thee hither, nor without the gods Penetrate thy firm feet the vast profound.
From Gebir by Landor, Walter Savage
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