was impaling
- past progressive of impale.
Example Sentences
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She was attractive, and I told her so, and she began again:— "Harry Lothrop said, as he was impaling the half of a worm,— "'Redmond is a handsome fellow, is he not?'
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various