As Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity wrote: "O Queen of Virgins, you are also the Queen of Martyrs; but it was written within your heart that the sword transpierced you, for with you everything took place within your soul." ❋ Unknown (2008)
The sequined matador, a stoic in the stadium, eyes a spooked, bleeding bull (neck transpierced), and dips a red linen cape before his front — zealots, in their cups, bawl for the final pass. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Battle ensues; they discharge their spears at each other, and legs and arms are transpierced. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Well has it been said that whosoever prays to her with faith and constancy can never be lost or cast away: and fitly is she too a haven of refuge for the afflicted because of the seven dolours which transpierced her own heart. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Carlo Visconti, being nearer the door, and the duke having passed, could not wound him in front: but with two strokes, transpierced his shoulder and spine. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Giant-fiend of a hundred hands, with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me; and then he became a Wolf, and lay gnawing my bones! ❋ Horace B. Day (N/A)
I have seen an imperfect drawing of the arms, Party per fess, a goblet transpierced with a dagger. ❋ Various (N/A)
Issuing from the heights, the enemy's forces came down upon us in great numbers, and the points of the horizon were crowded with the array of mighty elephants, like another chain of mountains: they bore down our infantry beneath their ponderous masses: those who escaped the shock were transpierced by innumerable arrows and the enemy flattered himself he had for once disappointed our commander's hopes. ❋ R. N. Dutta (N/A)
For he shall be buried and transpierced under showers of lances, and shall fall lifeless in atonement for his insolent attempt. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)
One who reached the opposite shore in a boat made a gesture of defiance and contempt toward his foes across the river, when he fell, transpierced with the bullet of an Indian sharpshooter. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
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. ❋ Ernest Naville (N/A)
No gleam of intellectual life transpierced and illumined all. ❋ Lanoe Falconer (N/A)
We now approached the car, which had been transpierced in every direction, and whose remaining portions were glowing with heat in consequence of the spreading of the atomic vibrations. ❋ Garrett Putnam Serviss (N/A)
On the pin cushion was a pin in the shape of an arrow (an arrow of course suggested a transpierced heart), which Snorky wore for important ceremonies, when he donned a perpendicular collar and a white coaching tie. ❋ Owen Johnson (1915)
Whilst endeavouring to reconcile Raymond, Count of Toulouse, he was, by order of the latter, transpierced with a lance, crying as he fell, ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
She could have understood the meaning of a little stone-cutter's yard at Columbia City, carving little pieces of marble for individual use, but when the yards of some huge stone corporation came into view, filled with spur tracks and flat cars, transpierced by docks from the river and traversed overhead by immense trundling cranes of wood and steel, it lost all significance in her little world. ❋ Theodore Dreiser (1908)
His hands and feet appeared to be transpierced by large nails, and a wound opened in his side, from which blood frequently flowed. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The tobacco smoke swirled in blue, layered shrouds, but a ray of sunlight that had cut its way through the heart-shaped hollow in a window shutter, transpierced the cabinet obliquely with a joyous, golden sword of dust, and in liquid, hot gold splashed upon the paper on the wall. ❋ Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1904)
