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

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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

At the same moment a javelin, hurled by an Arab, transpierced the horse of Ataulpho, which sunk beneath him.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

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

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

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

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

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

From The Iliad by Alexander Pope

"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

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

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