Sentence examples for if impaled upon from inspiring English sources

In these two species, the leaves appear as if impaled upon the stem (i.e., perfoliate).

By Robert Pack The New Yorker, May 14 , 1960 P. 188The butterfly's impaled upon the lake; View Article By John Cassidy By Kathryn Schulz By Adam Davidson By Ben Taub.

He never knew: he only knew that from that moment his spirit was impaled upon the knife of love.

In a testament to their decrepitude, Mr. O'Sullivan noted that many cars produce "a shower of rust" when they are impaled upon the spike.

I could have been swept up and pushed under the pier, he said, where I might have been impaled upon one of the many pieces of steel bars protruding from the water's surface.

Elsewhere, we see a soldier hacking with his sword at the groin of an upside-down victim, as well as another dismembered carcass, this time impaled upon a tree-trunk.

Impaled upon the longer spikes were the bodies of the gods.

The Garland King then rides to the foot of the church tower where the garland is hauled up the side of the tower and impaled upon a pinnacle.

Whatever her fate, Goldilocks fares better than Southey's vagrant old woman who, in his opinion, deserved a stint in the House of Correction, and far better than Miss Mure's old woman who is impaled upon St . Pauls church-yard steeple.

In this case, balanced on top of each bottle as if impaled, is a child's stuffed animal, tagged and numbered like a corpse in a morgue.

Flood mercilessly impaled the Brits upon his rapier wit—"That magnanimous government in the kindly exuberance of their feelings, have placed a large portion of... Australia at our disposal.