I thanked Mrs. Pierce for her courtesy and patience, and feeling that I now had a real problem to consider, I started back to the inn.
But though nervous and agitated, Mrs. Pierce spoke to me kindly.
Mrs. Pierce wrung her hands and moaned in a helpless fashion.
Mrs. Pierce seemed to care nothing for evidence or deduction in the matter, but began to lament the carelessness of the chambermaid who had not emptied the waste basket the day before.
Mechanically, Mr. Monroe called the next witness on his list, and Mrs. Pierce answered.
Mrs. Pierce looked a little surprised at this question.
Yes," was the almost inaudible reply, and Mrs. Pierce seemed about to break down at the sad recollection.
As he stood there, gazing at the black hole which seemed to pierce down into the entrails of the earth, he turned round to take one last look at the sun before descending to the nether world.
After dinner Madame sat and talked with Marchurst, but Kitty went outside into the warm darkness of the summer night, and tried to pierce the gloom to see if her lover was coming.
Mrs Riller understood the look, which seemed to pierce into the very depths of her frivolous little soul, and flushed angrily as she moved away with Mr Bellthorp and mentally determined to be even with Vandeloup on the first occasion.
Clouds impend over their summits, and the thoughtspierce the vast abyss.
I spoke slowly, distinctly, striving to pierce the mists that I knew swirled around the strained brain.
And unseen hands held my arms in a mighty clutch fast to my sides, another gripped my throat and I felt a needle-sharp poniard point pierce my shirt, touch the skin just over my heart!
And universal arbiter; endowed With penetration to pierce any cloud Fogging the field of controversial hate, And with a swift, inevitable, straight, Searching precision find the unavowed But vital point.
In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound.
His shield was closely covered and might not be seen of mortal eyes, for it was made of pure and perfect diamond:--one massive piece cut solid from the rock, and no spear could pierce it nor any sword divide its substance.
It was covered with brazen scales, so closely placed, that nothing could pierce them, and the dragon shook the scales until they sounded like the clashing of armour.
On account of illness Pierce had no part in the battles of Sept.
Pierce was injured by falling from his horse, and hence Col.
But his promptness in sending off Pierce and Shields, and his attempt to hold back one of Smith's and one of Pierce's brigades, suggest that he aimed to get behind Santa Anna himself and force a decisive battle.
Engineers Smith, Lee, Stevens and Tower favored attacking San Antonio, and Quitman, Shields, Cadwalader and Pierce took that view.
In Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell, 4to.
For instance, in the Passus primus of Pierce Plowman, Dauid in his daies dubbed knightes, And did hem swere on her sword to serue truth euer.
Lern to your Sorrow Death may creep with his Arrow And pierce yo'r vitall Marrow Long ere my warning Shadow Can mark that Hour.
Sisily sprang up, her eyes seeking to pierce the darkness, her ears listening intently.
To the south the light of the Lizard stabbed the black sky with a white flaming finger as if seeking topierce the darkness of eternity.
His quick intelligence, playing round this incident and seeking to pierce its meaning, grew alarmed.
That eye, with unfathomable perspicacity, seemed to pry into her empty pockets and pierce her penniless state.
Does it not seem as though the supreme cry of the soul were at last about to pierce the dense clouds of error that still envelop it in music?
For there is a side of life—and it is the best, the purest, the noblest side—which never blends with the ordinary life, and the eyes even of lovers themselves can seldom pierce through the masonry that is built up of silence and love.
Racine’s characters have no knowledge of themselves beyond the words by which they express themselves, and not one of these words can pierce the dykes that keep back the sea.
Then King Arthur, beholding the boar where he stood at bay, set his lance in rest with intent to charge the beast and to pierce him through the body.
Then Sir Bertolet took his spear in hand and therewith rushed his horse upon Sir Launcelot with intent to pierce him through the body.
The future is hid from mortals because, could they pierce its veil, it would crush them with its terrors.
Only run not too fast lest you should fall upon that sword and it should pierce you.
Now, at length, she lifted up her heavenly voice and began to sing in a strain so wild and sweet that it seemed to pierce to the watching stars.
I promise that one day you shall pierce your hand with a spindle, and on that day you shall surely die!
The death of Harrison, and the accession of Tyler, was their first great lift; the election of Mr. Pierce was their culminating point.
Most of us like to take the sorrows of other people merely at their face value, and if the face be cheerful our imagination does not pierce behind that mask to take, as it were, the secret sorrow in its all-loving arms.
No pin-pricks can pierce it--and pin-pricks are usually the bane of life.
Ah, Lord, what a condition will the Christless soul be in at that day; how will every one of these things afflict the damned soul they will pierce like arrows, and bite like serpents, and sting like an adder.
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
But this sting hath strength to cause it to pierce into the soul: "The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
The law then followeth, in the executive part of it, the soul into hell; and there strengthened sin, that sting in hell, to pierce the soul for ever and ever by its unutterable charging of sin on the conscience.
Ruggieri continued--"But I will not seek to pierce the mystery of a disguise which can have no control over the ways of destiny.
No; but when I attempted the first time to pierce him to the heart, the blade of my dagger struck against metal, and grated harshly.
Behind the iron bars two eyes were fixed on the person who had knocked, and if he had been left apparently unnoticed, it was probably because two inquisitive eyes endeavored to pierce the darkness in order to recognize the untimely visitor.
