True to its mark the iron-shod weapon flew, transfixing Numa's sleek carcass from the right groin to beneath the left shoulder.
There was a sudden twang as the brown fingers released their hold, and without a sound the raider sank forward upon his face, a wooden shaft transfixing his heart and protruding a foot from his black chest.
It was floating in the water, still transfixing the fish whose capture had brought him to this present predicament.
Its point penetrated the scales of the swimming fish, transfixing the creature completely.
The two great, wondering dark eyes transfixing her with so much amazement, brought Leoline to a sense of her talking unfathomable mysteries, quite incomprehensible to her handsome auditor.
Berryman, transfixing Shelton with his eyes; "the fellow ought to have been horsewhipped for writing such putridity!
It might have been an arrow transfixing her white throat.
Our names are Jane Boughton and Mamie Featherhurst," supplied Aileen, transfixing the lady with her wicked green eyes.
Such is the 'composition and fierce quality' of our ices, that they are brought in served on the shaft of a hickory broom; a transfixing rod, which we use as a stirrer first and a fork afterward.
Two seasons ago, this veteran Patterson saw his ship thrust bodily through another, and then the transfixed and transfixing vessels were both eaten up together by the greedy floes.
Slowly Mrs. Moodie thrust her hand in her pocket, still sternly transfixing Pet with her eyes, and drew out--a piece of cord!
I have my doubts about that," said Pet, transfixinghim with a long, unwinking stare.
It has happened, in the course of removing very adherent ovaries and tubes from the floor of the pelvis, that in transfixing the pedicle a coil of ileum has also been transfixed with the needle and tied to the stump.
This all came back like a flash, and instantly I counted the daggerstransfixing the heart in the drawing.
It was a picture of a human heart, and transfixing it were a number of pointed weapons resembling stilettos.
But the following night he was standing in his old place, opposite to Siegfried, transfixing him with his gloomy, glowing eyes.
The first should be made by pinching up and transfixing the skin, the second by ordinary incision, to the same depth as the first.
Many instruments have been devised for the purpose of at once transfixing and excising the projecting portion; some of them are very ingenious and complicated.
And this for you, caitiff," responded the marshal, quick as lightning transfixing the student's left arm with a thrust of his sword.
The bleeding was at length arrested by the twisted suture, made by transfixing the gum with three very small needles, the points of which were broken off close to the jaw, and the threads applied in the usual manner.
Youthful love and graciousness were in his heart; kindest words upon his tongue; but there he stood, target for thetransfixing glances of those ambushed archers of the eye.
I know that I am hideous, but for heaven's sake don't remind me of it with your criticizing, transfixing gazes!
Mrs. Treharne, stepping close to him and transfixing him with blazing eyes.
Superficial vessels are those which could be seen standing out on applying the fillet, and were to be divided by the method in vogue at the present day by transfixing the vessel through its middle and bringing the lancet outwards.
But in opening deep-lying veins the method of transfixing was inapplicable, and the bone was cut boldly down upon till the issue of blood showed that the vein was opened.
Two instruments appear transfixing the prostate, of which body the three lobes, a, b, c, are much enlarged.
A third smaller instrument, f f, is seen to pass out of the urethra anterior to the prostate, and after transfixing the right vesicula seminalis external to the neck of the bladder, enters this viscus at a point behind the prostate.
Its point penetrated the scales of the swimmer below, transfixing that lazy fish completely.
It was floating in the water, still transfixing the fish whose capture had endangered Burl's life.
Flashing downward, he darted this way and that ecstatically among the frantic prisoners, transfixing half a dozen in succession, to make sure of them, before he seized a big trout for his immediate meal.
The heron's beak shot downward with an almost inaudible splash, transfixing the shadow, and emerged with a glittering green and silver perch, perhaps five inches in length.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transfixing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
