transpierce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
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
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 Arthur Symons
Yet, one cry I, too, would drive up like a column erect, Marble to marble, from my heart to heaven, A monument of anguish to transpierce And overtop your vapoury complaints Expressed from feeble woes.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
And this slow transfiguration reached her heart, and played upon it, and transpierced it with a serious thrill.
From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
In the revival of letters and liberty, this fictitious deed was transpierced by the pen of Laurentius Valla, the pen of an eloquent critic and a Roman patriot.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman
When the King heard her speech, it transpierced his heart with the arrows of love and he bade her enter the palace with him, that he might send to the Kazi and release her brother.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The white tusk of a boar has transpierced his white thigh.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
Dear Lord who spreadest out above Thy loving, transpierced hands to meet All lifted hearts with blessing sweet,— Pierce not my heart, my tender heart Thou madest tender!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
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
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
Him, through the hip transpiercing as he fled, The shaft of Merion mingled with the dead.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
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 Martha Foote Crow
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