transpierce

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

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 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

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

The white tusk of a boar has transpierced his white thigh.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber

The strong intellectual armor of one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever seen was completely transpierced by the sharp and brilliant shaft of Voltaire.

From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Henry Downton

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

It was, so people said, the work of an erstwhile veterinary surgeon, and showed a number of life-size horses in a meadow, fantastic horses, blue, violet, and pink, whose astonishing anatomy transpierced their sides.

From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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

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

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