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
Penetrate to the headquarters of the Emperor Alexander!
From Napoleon and Blucher by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
Penetrate into those forests of America coeval with the world; what profound silence pervades these retreats when the winds are husht!
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Penetrate the mass in idea, and you will see it composed of numberless irregular polyhedra bounded by surfaces of weak cohesion.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
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
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