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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

Hark! the shrill notes transpierce the yielding air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2] Reference

Then staunch the bleeding, then transpierce the corse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris] Reference

And sparks from heaven transpierce earth's coarsest covertures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher] Reference

"From my earliest childhood," he said, "poetry had power over me to transport and transpierce me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference

“From my earliest childhood, ” he said, “poetry had power over me to transport and transpierce me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montaigne.] Reference

From afar, at every step you took, you saw a painting transpierce the wall and form, as it were, a window open upon Nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Masterpiece] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference

2158: 'And dead mens groans transpierce the wounded Air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard III] Reference

"During that time, those who had remained with the boat saw a canoe coming towards them from a distance, containing eight men and as many women; to these our people made signs; but they on approaching, began to transpierce ours with their arrows, before they had time to cover themselves with their bucklers, so that one Spaniard was killed by a shaft aimed by a woman, who also transfixed another with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World] Reference

That transpierce my very heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purgatory of St. Patrick] Reference

Run through and transpierce and transpire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference

Meet me advancing, and transpierce me there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference

Fail'd to transpierce it, and the weapon fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference