transpierce

"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

What are these sad solemn accents That transpierce my very heart, That cut through me like a dagger?

From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by Denis Florence MacCarthy

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

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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

At first the mosquitoes escaped; but as they cannot fly for long, every time that one remained still it was transpierced by the huntsmen.

From Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures by Unknown

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

No gleam of intellectual life transpierced and illumined all.

From Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer

With transpierced cape thus freighted, Yield it solemnly to me.

From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

A pang transpierced the conscience hiding under the cheap flowery blouse.

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan

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

From The Iliad by Alexander Pope

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

"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

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

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