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When the smoke had cleared, the stunned Germans found that the Russians were on the Baltic at two points and had lanced Pomerania into three segments, accomplishing a vast double encirclement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Either Mrs. Coulter did not know the boil of feelings that her simple words had lanced, or she was monstrously clever.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

They proved to be my American friend from Smith Landing, he whose hand I had lanced, and his companion, a young Englishman, who was here with him prospecting for gold and copper.

From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson

He had looked into the mouths of every Infante and Infanta, had lanced the gums of awful Captains-General, and inserted gold wires in the ivory treasures of most of the reigning beauties.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

The clouds out yonder, far ahead, seemed to be enwrapping some part of earth that had lanced itself into the sky.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman