transpierce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of transpierce
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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
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
"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
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
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
With transpierced cape thus freighted, Yield it solemnly to me.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
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
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 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
A pang transpierced the conscience hiding under the cheap flowery blouse.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
No gleam of intellectual life transpierced and illumined all.
From Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer
"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 F. G. (Frederick George) Smith
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
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
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
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