Sentence examples for Pierce from inspiring English sources

I'd come to hate the deep injections of anaesthetic, the needles so long they felt as if they might pierce my brain cavity.

I have long been drawn to the work of writers who – in Emerson's phrase – seek to "pierce rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things".

Football just started to try to pierce it.

When Gerard Manley Hopkins didn't have a word for a natural phenomenon, he would simply – wonderfully – make one up: shivelight, for "the lances of sunshine that pierce the canopy of a wood", or goldfoil for a sky lit by lightning in "zigzag dints and creasings".

The hooded vandal eventually managed to pierce through the rubber and disabled the water cannon which had to be taken away and replaced later by another.

Don't let him pierce his ears.

Roger Moore was English, Pierce Brosnan Irish and George Lazenby Australian.

Data compiled by The Economist show that of the six Bonds, Pierce Brosnan was the most bloodthirsty, bumping off an average of 19 baddies per film.

This year's assembly is thought likely to break it.Non-Hindus who take the trouble to go Madonna and Pierce Brosnan James Bondd) are expected will be awed less by the spectacle than by the fervour that animates it.

Franklin Pierce was a drunkard, as was Andrew Johnson (though he claimed his whisky was medicinal).

A supposed letter from Chief Seattle to President Franklin Pierce is an entirely fictitious effort by a white screenwriter in 1970, including lots of Earth Day-style balderdash that only sounds moving if you think an Indian chief wrote it in 1855.