Crossword-Solution: PENETRATES 10 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

All pervasive, it penetrates beyond national frontiers, spans the walls of censorship that bar the way to the written word, and seeps through the fine net of the Gestapo.

Why, yes, he said, and there is no harm; were it not that little by little this spirit of licence, finding a home, imperceptibly penetrates into manners and customs; whence, issuing with greater force, it invades contracts between man and man, and from contracts goes on to laws and constitutions, in utter recklessness, ending at last, Socrates, by an overthrow of all rights, private as well as public.

And if you are not crushed by such a pressure, it is because the air penetrates the interior of your body with equal pressure.

Beauty stands there--beauty such as this night and this place, and all this sad, strange summer, have been so full of--and it penetrates to one’s soul and lodges there, and keeps saying that man was not made to suffer, but to enjoy.

People who had never opened a book discussed them with critical reservations; to have read them had become a social obligation in circles to which literature never penetrates except in a personal guise.