Cameronian leader, in a voice which seemed to issue from the very penetralia of his person. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
The next afternoon we went down to Santa Maria degli Angeli in the plain, the very penetralia of the Pardon. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
No one else here cares for the penetralia of the moment, or last mysteries: there have been too many rational years. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
He wished to be what he called “safe” with all those whom he had admitted to the penetralia of his house and heart. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
Robert Creeley, who studied, taught, and edited at Black Mountain, brings us into the very penetralia of the New Poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry] Reference
He saw them darting out from the hidden penetralia around, moving swiftly across and sometimes darting in shoals before him. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Kingston made an early appearance with a cockney ballad on the subject of the admission of female searchers to the penetralia of H.M. Record. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
I believe, had I been in the inmost recesses of my habitation — the very penetralia — your eagerness would have surmounted bolts, bars, decency, and everything. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
The rogues, the pretenders, the adventurers who push into the penetralia of our social circles are many, and it is to the exclusion of such that a hostess should devote herself. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Mr. Jonson then took me into the penetralia of his bed-room. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
Clara; I want to explore the penetralia of this temple of Isis. '. From Wordnik.com. [Wilfrid Cumbermede] Reference
The further you advance into the penetralia of this arch-exemplar of. From Wordnik.com. [Your United States Impressions of a first visit] Reference
How mysterious and delicious are the cool penetralia of the Viceregal. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
Dii, quibus in numerum, &c. Vos mihi sacrarum penetralia pandite rerum. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
The brooks ran dry, and left barren the penetralia of the tamaracks and cedars. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
Lady Chapel and the other penetralia, which it did not take him long to accomplish. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
Christmas Decorations, then there is deep mystery in the penetralia of every parish. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
But into that awful penetralia of death and silence there was no invasion -- there had been no retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Clarence] Reference
For if they lie asleep in the penetralia of the home the new comers may approach and pass by for lack of a welcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart] Reference
Truth to say, there were penetralia in New York society concerning which this successful woman was uneasy in her heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
'Yea,' was the concise reply of the Cameronian leader, in a voice which seemed to issue from the very penetralia of his person. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
He was as one of the initiated in the old Egyptian mysteries who have crossed the gate only to long more ardently for the penetralia. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Determined to spare no exertions, and to neglect no means, by which he might enter into the very penetralia of his mighty master's meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
Probably no other white men had ever crawled through the hidden passage and gained the further penetralia of the cave, which now again began to narrow. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wrong Paradise] Reference
In the penetralia of the parlour which he left I saw a group of floury comrades, the prominent features of the gathering being depression and bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
I believe, had I been in the inmost recesses of my habitation -- the very penetralia -- your eagerness would have surmounted bolts, bars, decency, and everything. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
A glazed southern gallery, known to its occupants as the "poo'ch" and to the rake of which their innermost penetralia seemed ever to stand open, encompasses my other memories. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
They did not take to literature and science, because these pursuits require severe work and more or less of a strong bias, for a thorough exposition of their profound penetralia. From Wordnik.com. [Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South] Reference
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