transpierce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Pisander with his spear struck full the shield Of glorious Menelaus, but his force Resisted by the stubborn buckler broad Fail'd to transpierce it, and the weapon fell Snapp'd at the neck.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
"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
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
No gleam of intellectual life transpierced and illumined all.
From Cecilia de Noël by Falconer, Lanoe
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
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
I have seen an imperfect drawing of the arms, Party per fess, a goblet transpierced with a dagger.
From Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 by Various
He is crucified and His heart is transpierced.
From The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars With a Novena and Litany to this Zealous Worker in the Vineyard of the Lord by Anonymous
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
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)
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
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
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