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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

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

"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

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

The thighs consumed, each took   His portion of the maw, then, slashing well 581 The remnant, they transpierced it with the spits Neatly, and held it reeking at the fire.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

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

He is crucified and His heart is transpierced.

From The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars With a Novena and Litany to this Zealous Worker in the Vineyard of the Lord by Anonymous

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

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

"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

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

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

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