Pierced

Examples

• Gudrun gave a little cry of excitement, as if pierced with delight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Gentlemen, I have heard my uncle say, that Tom Smart said the widow's lamentations when she heard the disclosure would have pierced a heart of stone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Have you ever observed that his ears are pierced for earrings? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• One Norwegian long defended it by his single arm, and was at length pierced with a spear thrust through the planks of the bridge from a boat beneath. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She had a real, happy, glad, good-natured look; but she had een that pierced a body through. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The very thought of such a possibility, so pierced my heart that it made me cry. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It pierced her through. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Emanuel held most dear and sacred, commanding the enforcement of that new system whose frost had pierced to the marrow of my bones. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He spoke often to me; but the sound of his voice pierced my ears like that of a water-mill, yet his words were articulate enough. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The fountain sparkled in the sun; the obelisk above pierced the clear dark-blue air. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Others are half pierced through, and the clean impression is there in the rock, as smooth and as shapely as if it were done in putty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was pierced by a very small but very deep wound, which had divided the carotid artery. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The sun had lately pierced the gray, and the avenue of limes cast shadows. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A loophole window was pierced in each of its side walls. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Gerty hid her face from the light, but it pierced to the crannies of her soul. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Before me were low hills pierced by narrow and inviting ravines. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• And all the while, Ursula, spell-bound, kept up her high-pitched thin, irrelevant song, which pierced the fading evening like an incantation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He placed 100 land-shells, belonging to ten species, in a box pierced with holes, and immersed it for a fortnight in the sea. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• At the height of 504 feet the walls are pierced with port holes, from which a magnificent view is had of the capital city and surrounding country. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We have, said Gutenberg, but it pierced the paper so that it could not be used. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Pierced deeper than I could endure, made now to feel what defied suppression, I cried-- My heart will break! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The towers are each pierced by two archways, 31? feet wide, and 120? feet high, through which openings passes the floor of the bridge at the height of 118 feet above high water mark. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This is pierced by the spindle, which is driven home through the centre of the eighth. Plato. The Republic.
• Tom was certainly very tender-hearted, but they pierced his, to the very core. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The walls of the apartment were completely hung with splendid tapestries which hid any windows or doors which may have pierced them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I felt myself hit in the temples, and I concluded your heart was pierced; but the reiterated voice was an explanation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The walls about the ledge were pierced with a number of entrances to dimly lighted passageways. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was designed for sewing leather, and an awl pierced the hole in advance of the needle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Eyes, ears, arms and legs were pierced; every inch of the poor writhing body that did not cover a vital organ became the target of the cruel lancers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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