And Sia-Manto fell upon his back Upon a sharp oak trunk, that pierced his chest Four spans and further.
The lad came, and at one strokepierced the steel shield with the steel spear.
A man is he who pierced the steel shield with the steel spear.
A man is he who has pierced the steel shield with the steel spear.
Light, hope, freedom, pierced with vitalizing ray the clouds and the miasma that hung so thick over the prostrate Middle Age, once noble and mighty, now a foul image of decay and death.
Even in the sternest scenery of the Alps some sign of vegetation lingers; and I remember to have found a tuft of lichen growing on the only rock which pierced through the ice on the summit of the Jungfrau.
The visitors planted themselves in front of the mirror, which the bullet had pierced and starred, and they all gave vent to the same exclamation: "By Jove; that ball must have had terrible force!
The moon turned each rock into a broken column, crumbling capital, or stretch of wallpierced with mysterious arches.
Dark daughter of Hela," said the Prophetess, "whether demon or god hath inspired thee, I hear in my spirit a voice that tells me thou hast pierced to a truth that my lore could not reach.
Many a church, and many a convent, pierced their mingled brick and timber work with Roman capital and shaft.
The sword shivered on the steel of that which parried the stroke, and the next moment, pierced to the heart, Meredydd fell to the earth, bathed in his gore.
The stream seemed literally to run gore; pierced by javelins and arrows, corpses floated and vanished, while numbers, undeterred by the havoc, leaped into the waves from the opposite banks.
Ice was still to be seen round the edge of the lake, but it was so thin and pierced with holes that every small ripple that broke on the shore sent up jets of spray.
They had emerged from the dusky shadows of the ancient avenue of limes, a ray of light from the afterglow in the west pierced the boughs and suffused his thin freckled face with a deep flush.
Grey dawn pierced the chinks of the library shutters.
The colonel dictated to her, and all the time his eyespierced her through and through, and searched, always searched, and her pen fell from her hand.
He pierced him with his dagger-like glance to such effect that the fair-haired man speedily rose and disappeared.
If only his eyes hadn't pierced like daggers, if he hadn't laughed so mockingly and given her that evil look at the last!
It pierced her brain, hammered in her temples, and throbbed painfully in every nerve and pore of her body.
His eyes flamed in their red sockets andpierced her with the rapier-like sharpness that had at first filled her with terror.
The sheer, foolish bravado of it pierced Anne's heart.
Elliott found it so, was amusingly apparent to the watchful older woman, whose eyes, more subtle than those of Claire, pierced his armor to the palpitating, defenseless flesh.
Such was the impetuosity of the British that, in the face of a destructive discharge of grape, they gained the summit of the hill and pierced the American centre.
Have you ever observed that his ears are pierced for earrings?
It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing.
The staff was a great stick with a large knob at the end of it pierced through with sharp nails and spikes.
I accordingly returned, and found my dear pupil in a state that pierced me to the heart.
A low whistle from Holman pierced the silence, and I answered.
It was Kaipi who stampeded the small ray of charity that had pierced the cluster of suspicions we had collected.
The dread arch of Mystery spreads over us, and no voice ever pierced it.
Everywhere he will see first to his own interests, and whoso leans on him will be pierced with a broken reed.
It was on a cruciform tree, that Chrishna was said to have expired, pierced with arrows.
A moment more and Boas's second lance haspierced through one of its fore-flappers into its lungs; the seal collapses, and the fight is over.
At last it comes up again, and in a moment he has seized his lance and, with a deadly aim, has pierced it right through the head.
The whale was harpooned, or rather pierced with a big lance, from the bow, and it sometimes happened that with a whisk of its tail it would crush the boat or capsize it.
Clement had never seen anything like it, and he viewed it with awe, his ears deafened by the babel or pierced by the shrill cries of the news-sellers who constantly bawled, "Panic!
Then, through the holespierced by the mountain troops, the Italian engineers began to move forward their artillery and building emplacements and constructing trenches.
The Russian line waspierced and its defense shattered.
It hurt me so, when she pierced one, that I could not summon resolution to have the other operated on; so I went to bed with a bit of sewing silk in the hole she had made.
Another second, and with a gasp and moan he sank to earth transfixed; a barbed arrow, whizzing from unseen space, had pierced him through and through.
I myself have known forty years pass, for someone afflicted with a terrible mental disability, as a watch in the night, once light pierced through the clouds of the long-darkened mental vision.
Archdeacon Wilberforce reminds us in one of his sermons, preached at Westminster Abbey, that the astronomers who built the pyramids of the Nile pierced a slanting shaft through the larger pyramid, which pointed direct to the pole-star.
Put these to cook in cold water, boil them until they may be easily pierced with a fork, and then drain off the water.
Add the rhubarb to the sirup and cook until it is tender enough to be piercedwith a fork.
Add the peaches and cook until they may be easily pierced with a fork.
Pour a few spoonfuls of water into the pan, set in the oven, and bake until the pears can be easilypierced with a fork.
Cook slowly until they can be easily pierced with a fork or until the seeds separate from the pulp upon being crushed.
The fruit should be cooked in the sirup until it may be easily pierced with a fork or until it is soft.
The covers for automatic-seal jars must be pierced before they can be removed, and this necessitates a new supply for each canning.
Boil the beans until they can be pierced with a fork, remove from the fire, drain, and pack into jars or crocks.
Veillantif dropped down dead, and Roland, his armor pierced with spear points, fell beneath him with a last great "Montjoy.
All the earth seemed to resound with the death-dealing blow, and surely had it not been for the tarnkappe both Siegfried and Gunther would have been killed as the great spear pierced the King's massive shield.
Nevertheless the fearless Siegfried not only slew this evil creature but bathed in its blood, thus making his own skin so hard that it could never afterward be pierced by any weapon.
While in the act of striking for the third time, the Umbiqua on the eastern door staggered and fell down the ladder; his breast had been pierced by an arrow.
The hunters of the Flat Heads and Pierced Noses would come in winter to beg for it; their furs would make warm the lodges of the Shoshones.
We had been but one day on our march in the swamp after leaving Christobal, when the war-whoop pierced our ears, and a moment afterwards our party was surrounded by some hundred Apaches, who saluted us with a shower of arrows.
He hurried forward to moisten his parched lips, but just as he was stooping over the water he fell, pierced by ten arrows.
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood.
As he stood gazing reflectively into the sunset, a strange, plaintive, birdlike note pierced the still evening air.
Railways have pierced and opened up lonely regions of the Sagalae, and there are two thriving towns where, in the days of Pierre, only stood a Hudson's Bay Company's post with its store.
Soon shall these clouds be pierced by Mercy's beams.
Wounded in both my honour and my love; They have pierced me in two tender parts.
Several of the men, piercedby the poisoned arrows of the enemy, fell dead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pierced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: honeycombed; peppered; pitted
