Sentence examples for piercing him from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Ford was unarmed, Reilly brandished a rifle, and the teenager who had an extensive criminal record took one shot at Ford, piercing him in the heart.

A large iron hook was fixed on the horizontal cross-bar of the gallows and the individual was forced upon this hook, piercing him from the abdomen through his back, so that he hung from it, hands, feet and head downward.

Dr. Walter Palmer was named by the Telegraph as the man who paid $55,000 to hunt the famous 13-year-old animal, luring him out of Hwange National Park with dead meat, piercing him with a bow and arrow, and then following him for 40 hours before shooting him dead with a rifle.

/ 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.

"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.

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.

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.