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
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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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
There is nothing, he tells us in Fifine, which cannot reflect it; even moral putridity becomes phosphorescent, "and sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures."
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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 Milman, Henry Hart
At first the mosquitoes escaped; but as they cannot fly for long, every time that one remained still it was transpierced by the huntsmen.
From Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures by Unknown
There's a stone in midmost mountain, 'Mid the stone there is an opening, Which has there been bored by auger, Where the auger has transpierced it.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias
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
With transpierced cape thus freighted, Yield it solemnly to me.
From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William
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
"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)
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
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
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
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