transpierce

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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