Sentence examples for pierce him from inspiring English sources

" They are dangerous animals to encounter in hunting," he continued, "as they will face a man who attacks them, and attempt to pierce him with their terrible horns.

"Her urgent kisses seemed to go beyond his flesh, to pierce him through, as if wanting to absorb both will and soul," Eça de Queirós writes approvingly.

This is because Connery matters a great deal to him: he is his surrogate, an emblematic figure whose physical and emotional evolutions pierce him in the way that a father's ageing shakes a son, as intimations of mortality.

But if this time the arrow did not pierce him, we have other arrows in our quiver". The authenticity of the statement could not be confirmed and analysts cautioned that it might suit homegrown resistance groups to let the Jordanian-born Mr Zarqawi claim some of their attacks as his own.

/ Once, a fear pierced him, / In that he mistook / The shadow of his equipage / For blackbirds".

The small changes pierced him; in the face of the big ones he lost his bearings.

In Australia, bulldog ants — "they have stingers like big syringes" — leapt at and pierced him multiple times, releasing a potentially fatal toxin.

He comes into possession of a cursed Ashanti blade that, after a run-in with his suicidal project assistant, ends up piercing him.

And when the president stunned him, pierced him with his fangs, wrapped him in a thick cocoon of impenetrable webbing and left him to hang there for days, that timing was also poor.

But when she pinned one to Ronnie's he fell dramatically to his knees, complaining she had pierced him to the heart, which he was clutching with both hands.

He was, in many ways, the Matthau I had come to know from the screen: intelligent, witty in an understated manner, with sympathetic eyes that took the measure of a man without piercing him, but, unlike Oscar, neatly dressed in a sport jacket and he knew which fork to use without making a show of it.