One thing is certain: it is the paternal smile which at certain hours pierces nature, attesting that one eye regards us, and one heart follows us.
In this world there is only one little ray of light which pierces the darkness, and seems to be the reflection of a benevolent will.
When death's unsparing dartPierces my fainting heart, Sweetly I'll sing: Grave!
O blest be that light which has parted the clouds, And a path to the pilgrim can show; That pierces the vail which the future enshrouds, And tells us to whom we shall go!
This keen glance of a jealous woman is a stiletto which pierces every cuirass; Marguerite Vanel plunged it straight into the hearts of the two confidants.
Ah, madam," cried Buckingham, "your royal highness pierces my heart with a dagger forged by your own hands.
Its Ithuriel temper pierces shams, creeds, covenants, and chases the phantoms which others embrace, till the lovers of the false Florimels hurl the true knight to the ground.
Accept them--stand up to the hammer and take the blows and learn: consent to the sword that pierces up to the hilt, and what do we come to?
Such a flash of enlightenment was this, as when the lightning gleam pierces the gloom of midnight, showing the perils of the road, disclosing pitfalls and precipices previously shrouded in darkness.
He it is who doth not wince when the javelin pierces to the quick, or the wild beast rends to the marrow.
Only an eye that pierces behind the unwrought work to the man, willing while the flesh was weak, can ever estimate how much some spirits are worth.
A beastlike roaring pierces through the night, above the fury of the storm.
Every flame speaks of hate; every ray flashes with torturing jealousy through his soul, every gleam pierces his heart with fear and guilty consciousness.
The same shaft flying with the wind pierces deep, which against it can hardly find strength to stick upright.
The pillars of heaven tremble, and are frightened at his rebuke; by his strength he shakes the sea, and by his wisdom he crushes Rahabh; by his breath he brightens the heaven, his hand pierces the flying Dragon.
The word Bahelia is derived from the Sanskrit Vyadha, 'one who pierces or wounds,' hence a hunter.
He then takes an iron bar, twelve finger-joints long, and after repeating his charms pierces the figure with it.
His penetration is not equal to Lotto's, but he deals with his sitters with an observation which pierces below the surface.
He is not only a painter of architecture, but pays great attention to light and atmosphere, and aims at subtle effects; a transparent haze floats over the lagoons, or the sun pierces though the morning mists.
Thence to a barber's and so to my wife, and at noon took her to Mrs. Pierces by invitacion to dinner, where there came Dr.
The One he is whose cry pierces the blue horizon like a gold-threaded needle stitching the hill-tops to the sky!
A gleam of daylight breaks the darkness: it comes from the Prince d'Elboeuf's shaft, which pierces the stone steps and goes down far below them.
First we have the grand figure of the innocent blood having a voice which pierces the heavens.
In vain in Grotto's dark unseen I lie, Love pierces where the Sun could never spy.
Spinal accessory nerve, which pierces the sterno-mastoid muscle, to be distributed to it and the trapezius.
So true is it that all the costal region (the asternal as well as the sternal) is a pulmonary enclosure, that any instrument which pierces intercostal space must wound the lung.
When this vessel appears deficient, its place is usually supplied by some branch of the peronaeal or posterior tibial, which pierces the interosseous ligament from behind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pierces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
