transpierce
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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
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
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
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
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
I have seen an imperfect drawing of the arms, Party per fess, a goblet transpierced with a dagger.
From Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 by Various
With transpierced cape thus freighted, Yield it solemnly to me.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
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
There's a stone in midmost mountain, 'Mid the stone there is an opening, Which has there been bored by auger, Where the auger has transpierced it.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Elias Lönnrot
It was as though the fiery thrust that had transpierced the heart of "her Boston," had smitten the centre of her own vitality in the self-same hour.
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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
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
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
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
