empale
Americanverb (used with object)
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"Well, it wasn't right for her to say it," said Anne, promptly deciding upon which horn of this dilemma to empale herself.
From Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
It is honey-dew that he is enjoying, and second-hand at that, as he devours the satiated bluebottle-fly which is empaled on his black horny beak.
From My Studio Neighbors by William Hamilton Gibson
I thought that I should once have been empaled alive on account of a griffin.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
O'er their dead Gods, their mortal Deities— Amphibious, hybrid things that died as men, Drowned, hanged, empaled, to rise as gods again;— Ask them, what mighty secret lurks below This seven-fold mystery—can they tell thee?
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
Her glowing imagery fell upon the bristling points of his close phalanx of arguments, as gorgeous tropical garlands caught and empaled by bayonets until they faded.
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
The fog-bell deafens me empaled Upon this rock—I feel enjailed— Though free.
From Poems by Victor Hugo
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