transpierce

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 Sir Henry Jones

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

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 William Cowper

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

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

No gleam of intellectual life transpierced and illumined all.

From Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer

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 Robert Louis Stevenson

Dear Lord who spreadest out above Thy loving, transpierced hands to meet All lifted hearts with blessing sweet,— Pierce not my heart, my tender heart Thou madest tender!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Not the clean heart transpierced; not tears that fall For a child’s agony; not a martyr’s woe;       Not these, not these appal.

From A Father of Women and other poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

When the King heard her speech, it transpierced his heart with the arrows of love and he bade her enter the palace with him, that he might send to the Kazi and release her brother.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Him, through the hip transpiercing as he fled, The shaft of Merion mingled with the dead.

From The Iliad by Alexander Pope

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

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

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 Émile Zola