transpierce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of transpierce
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"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
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 Watkin Tench
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 Denis Florence MacCarthy
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 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
How do Thy clear, still eyes transpierce our souls, As gazing through them toward the Father-throne In a pathetical, full Deity, Serenely as the stars gaze through the air Straight on each other!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
At the same moment a javelin, hurled by an Arab, transpierced the horse of Ataulpho, which sunk beneath him.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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 Henry Hart Milman
It was as though the fiery thrust that had transpierced the heart of "her Boston," had smitten the centre of her own vitality in the self-same hour.
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
No gleam of intellectual life transpierced and illumined all.
From Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer
But now I felt myself as if transpierced and torn in pieces by sharp sorrow.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
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 Émile Zola
He has been told to be pathetic here, menacing there; here to assume a slight tinge of irony transpiercing apparent politeness, or, again, to make his gesture a seeming contradiction of his words.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
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 Paul William Miller
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 Israel Zangwill
Him, through the hip transpiercing as he fled, The shaft of Merion mingled with the dead.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
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