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. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If any was so rash and full of temerity as to resist him to his face, then was it he did show the strength of his muscles, for without more ado he did transpierce him, by running him in at the breast, through the mediastine and the heart. ❋ Unknown (2002)
They do not buy jewels worth so many hundreds or tens -- but transpierce the actual coin, and of them compose a necklace of whose value there can be no doubt, and whose fashion is not very variable. ❋ Various (N/A)
From my earliest childhood, he said, poetry had power over me to transport and transpierce me. ❋ Unknown (1909)
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." ❋ Henry Jones (1887)
And sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures, -- ❋ Henry Jones (1887)
From afar, at every step you took, you saw a painting transpierce the wall and form, as it were, a window open upon Nature. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)
[Beware], lest some man with a spear transpierce thee in the back, flying. ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1840)
On his return to Constantinople, he labored, by the foundation of convents and churches, to secure the aid of his celestial patrons, of Michael the archangel and the prophet Elijah; and it was his daily prayer that he might live to transpierce, with three arrows, the head of his impious adversary. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)
Hark! the shrill notes transpierce the yielding air, ❋ Edward Young (1724)
Then staunch the bleeding, then transpierce the corse, ❋ William Smith (1597)
Poetry has ever had that power over me from a child to transpierce and transport me; but this vivid sentiment that is natural to me has been variously handled by variety of forms, not so much higher or lower (for they were ever the highest of every kind), as differing in colour. ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)
"From my earliest childhood," he said, "poetry had power over me to transport and transpierce me." ❋ Various (1562)
2158: 'And dead mens groans transpierce the wounded Air. ❋ Unknown (1700)
