transpierce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of transpierce
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What are these sad solemn accents That transpierce my very heart, That cut through me like a dagger?
From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
If he has hit his mark, he continues his efforts and endeavours to transpierce it or so to entangle the barbs in the flesh as to prevent its escape.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin
"From my earliest childhood," he said, "poetry had power over me to transport and transpierce me."
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
From afar, at every step you took, you saw a painting transpierce the wall and form, as it were, a window open upon Nature.
From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
He starts by arguing:— "That bodies show me minds, That, through the outward sign, the inward grace allures, And sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures,— All by demonstrating the value of Fifine!"
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur
Not the clean heart transpierced; not tears that fall For a child’s agony; not a martyr’s woe; Not these, not these appal.
From A Father of Women and other poems by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
The strong intellectual armor of one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever seen was completely transpierced by the sharp and brilliant shaft of Voltaire.
From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Downton, Henry
I told him briefly I would ask no better, for I was transpierced with this display of fatherly emotion; but even as I said the words, the most insolent revolt surged through my arteries.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
It was, so people said, the work of an erstwhile veterinary surgeon, and showed a number of life-size horses in a meadow, fantastic horses, blue, violet, and pink, whose astonishing anatomy transpierced their sides.
From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
Andronicus was surprised by the sally of a vigilant foe; but, while his troops fled in disorder, his invincible lance transpierced the thickest ranks of the Armenians.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Milman, Henry Hart
However, I followed his instructions, and pretty soon I espied the broad-girthed tree towering over its field, with the foreign transpiercing trunk about fifteen feet from the ground, making indeed a vast cross.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
Those snary locks are those same nets, my dear, Wherewith my liberty thou didst surprise Love was the flame that firèd me so near, The dart transpiercing were those crystal eyes.
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote
The houses were mostly of a sombre grey, warmed by reflected beams; still rays of light were transpiercing certain districts, and long streets, stretching in front of Helene, set streaks of sunshine amidst the shade.
From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile
"The prophet's keen vision transpiercing the ages, Beheld us to Zion return; We'll sing of our freedom, though Babylon rages, We'll shout as her city doth burn."
From The Revelation Explained by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)
About her necke she ware a precious stone, A high pris'd, matchlesse, sparkling diamond, But poising it with her transpiercing eye, Shewd like a candle when the Sun is by.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Miller, Paul William
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