impaled

Example Sentences

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I thought that I should once have been empaled alive on account of a griffin.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

The fog-bell deafens me empaled Upon this rock—I feel enjailed—             Though free.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

Her glowing imagery fell upon the bristling points of his close phalanx of arguments, as gorgeous tropical garlands caught and empaled by bayonets until they faded.

From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

There at least he would be safe from the hard, inquisitive eyes which empaled him.

From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert

It is honey-dew that he is enjoying, and second-hand at that, as he devours the satiated bluebottle-fly which is empaled on his black horny beak.

From My Studio Neighbors by Gibson, William Hamilton