transpierce

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.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 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.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 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.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

“From my earliest childhood, ” he said, “poetry had power over me to transport and transpierce me.

Montaigne. 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."

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887

And sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures, --

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher 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.

His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871

[Beware], lest some man with a spear transpierce thee in the back, flying.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840

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.

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson Watkin Tench 1796