The assistants part, transfix, and roast the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
The assistants part, transfix, and roast the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
Yet along the way there are scenes that transfix you. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghosts Of Slavery] Reference
He paused, as it seemed, to transfix me with his gaze. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The gaze managed to transfix all three of them simultaneously. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
It is the ads regarding slaves that transfix the modern reader. From Wordnik.com. [An ad that gives me goose bumps] Reference
But even when "Short Cuts" misfires, it rarely fails to transfix. From Wordnik.com. [A Diorama Of Dysfunction] Reference
Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Half Broke Horses: Summary and book reviews of Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls.] Reference
With their eye for human detail, they each transfix, overwhelm, linger. From Wordnik.com. [After The Survivors] Reference
As the bodyguard lunged forward to transfix the Cimmerian on his point. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]
Now that thou canst transfix him with thy arrow, permit not thy antagonist to string his bow. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
But the good ones are so good, and in such a weird way, that they utterly transfix the eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Late Show] Reference
Take the syringe in the right hand and with the needle transfix the fold near its base (Fig. 182). From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Squads have also been out in the countryside "lamping", poachers using lights to transfix animals. From Wordnik.com. [Populist Poachers?] Reference
How could I have forgotten this look, this considering look, and how he could transfix me with it?. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
With winged words he would transfix a fallacy or stamp a true idea so that it could not be forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
They are the present day sirens -- girls who have the power to transfix any male who comes their way. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
But the Aquilonian's lance-head crashed through shield and breast-plate to transfix the baron's heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
It is lucky you keep the glasses on them, or they would transfix Horace Milliken, my friend the widower here. From Wordnik.com. [The Wolves and the Lamb] Reference
It has not one element that asks the sense of beauty to incorporate it, or challenges the weapon of wit to transfix it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Not only at the men who had landed on the roof but upwards far enough to transfix the FLIGHT IN YlKTOR flitter in turn. From Wordnik.com. [Flight in Yiktor]
Hypatia, wearing a white robe and her ever present laurel, would face the large crowd and transfix them with her eloquent Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Euclid’s Window] Reference
I was that energetic person, and I have satisfied myself that by no exertion of my strength can I transfix the pig with a single blow. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Black Peter.] Reference
The great mass of ice, sharp as a spear, and weighing a ton or more, was falling straight down on the prostrate man, as if to transfix him. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
Why should we not in our endeavors attempt in some measure to transfix the brilliant harmonies that follow the sun in his liberal and gracious course?. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891] Reference
Even as they fell he writhed uppermost, and baffling with an active elbow the captain's last effort to transfix him, he dashed his adversary's head upon the boards. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
The great, solemn eyes transfix him with a look he cannot meet. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
It is lucky you keep the glasses on them, or they would transfix. From Wordnik.com. [The Wolves and the Lamb] Reference
The latest whispers of ninjas to transfix the nation emerged after the murders of a. From Wordnik.com. [Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News] Reference
Again Mrs. Gantry raised her lorgnette to transfix her daughter with her cold stare. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Primitive] Reference
There are a lot of reasons why The Replacements transfix fans in an almost ghastly way. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The surgeon should then transfix the base of each separately with a curved needle bearing a strong double thread. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
The Sauromatae rushed upon him, and were about to transfix him with their raised javelins, when he raised the cry of Zirin. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
Behold, a Jinniyeh this is; and Jinn hath she also, I trow, Who teach her men's hearts to transfix, by means of a stringless bow. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference
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