| Blows batter him from all sides, and something pierces him deeply just above the hip. |
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| Aeneas casts a spear and it pierces his shield and corselet going into his thigh. |
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| Then, in the distance a foghorn wails and the roaming light of a lighthouse momentarily pierces the shadows. |
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| Next, it extends its proboscis, a beak neatly folded under its head, and pierces the skin of its victim. |
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| A sea lion lets out a single long deep-throated bellow that eerily pierces the air like an elephant's roar. |
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| If a dart pierces human skin and faecal matter gets into the target's bloodstream, there can be serious health consequences. |
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| You may feel a sharp stinging sensation when the needle pierces the amniotic sac but this should only last a few seconds. |
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| A siren pierces the early evening night calling attention to the bright yellow firetruck speeding toward a pillar of smoke in the distance. |
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| The bottom of the actuating rod has a sharp point, which pierces the gas cylinder release valve. |
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| Tyler stood out even from this group with five earrings on each ear, two eyebrow rings on each eyebrow, four lip rings, and two tongue pierces. |
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| A glint of knowledge from within his cruel gaze pierces her armor, sending a tremor of fear through Martina. |
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| Among them, though uninvited, comes his old guide and mentor, the sage Apollonius, who pierces Lamia's disguise and calls her by her name. |
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| A chorus of high-pitched wolf howls pierces the stillness of a frigid January morning. |
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| This arrow pierces Menelaus' clothing but does not wound him fatally, even though the blood comes gushing out. |
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| If the heat pierces those thought bubbles first, then the grunting conveyor belt dispels the last doubts about what soil you stand on. |
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| An irregular elongated window pierces the massive back wall. |
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| No natural light ever pierces these dark recesses of my flat, neither does the soft spring breeze ever waft gently through their becalmed atmosphere. |
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| Overstitch the seam allowance, making sure that the needle barely pierces the fold of the hemline. |
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| A small cadre of men wearing a large cache of chains, pierces, cuffs, and assorted sterling silver bling-bling were waiting for their no-doubt-distressed calfskin duffel bags. |
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| By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy. |
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| Levinas's text here echoes his 1961 claims about the face as expression that pierces through phenomenality. |
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| Sometimes, enunciation pierces through narration with ostentatious camera moves or reflexive images, but it finds itself swallowed by the diegesis in the end. |
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| Without an ounce of fat, at a trim ninety-nine minuthe, the movie pierces like a bullet, leaving a clean hole. |
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| It is a glorious ray of the heavenly Jerusalem which pierces the clouds of our history and lights up our journey. |
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| Lucky Break pierces the superficial surface of acting to reveal the enthralling, authentic drama at the heart of the business. |
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| They begin with a joust where Gautier pierces Bernier with his lance between his ribs. |
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| Cephalus leaves for the hunt, but Procris's javelin inadvertently pierces the body of Procris. |
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| The fungus pierces the skin of the grape and allows the water content to evaporate and adds certain enzymes to the juice. |
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| The magnificent gate pierces the elaborate walls of the citadel and opens on Jamaâ street. |
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| Do you accept to be this instrument, that is this dart that pierces hearts, even the most hardened ones, only by your presence? |
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| The electronic peep of the alarm pierces my wandering dreams like a knife. |
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| It is snowing, the sky is overcast, but the sun still pierces through the clouds. |
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| The tape sticks to the rubber of the balloon and will not allow the rubber to stretch to the breaking point when the pin pierces the balloon. |
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| The sharp bladed end pierces the wood easily and went straight through. |
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| Gatineau Park is a large, dramatic section of Canadian Shield that pierces the urban fabric. |
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| Perforation of the uterus can occur during IUD insertion, when the IUD or a gynecological instrument pierces the uterine muscle wall. |
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| But it is precisely that wonky smile, lugubrious air and bitter chocolate voice that pierces the hearts of the toughest ball-breaking women of my acquaintance. |
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| Picking up a child's cake pop maker, she griddles the baubles in the spherical moulds and pierces them with lolly sticks, conjuring fabulous treats in minutes. |
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| When she takes someone in her arms, she pierces their eardrums. |
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| But, as is generally the way with national cliches, there is a tiny piece of accuracy here, in that alcohol pierces the national cloud of awkwardness that defines so many British social interactions. |
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| At various intervals throughout the story he describes, at great length and in microscopic detail, the trajectory of each bullet as it pierces skin, tears through muscle, rips up sinew and shatters bone. |
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| It lies dormant in every human being until awakened, at which point it travels through the energy centers and pierces the fontannel bone on the top of our head. |
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| When feeding from a larger flower with a very deep honey well, such as a tiger lily, it pierces the calyx, or neck of the blossom, with its bill and by this shortcut extracts the drop of nectar. |
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| The shopping centre's centrepiece is the 160 metre long passageway that pierces through the whole of the city quarter, from the inner Alster to Mönckebergstraße opposite St. Peter's Church. |
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| The sheikh pierces the cheeks of the young men with a stylet. |
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| A lance inside the nematocyst pierces the victim's skin, and venom flows through into the victim. |
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| Taking the knife, she gently pierces the yolk sac and lets the yellow liquid pour into the steel bowl. |
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| When the kundalini rises and pierces this center, she awakens all the nerves, thus enlightening every nerve center and we say the person is an enlightened soul. |
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| When the kundalini pierces this center, the person becomes extremely truthful, tactful and sweet in communication, and does not indulge in futile arguments. |
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| Gilgian Gelzer slashes and pierces space, and it engulfs us. |
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| Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray. |
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| The Pierces THE GLEE CLUB, BIRMINGHAM FOR their latest album Creation, Pierce sisters Allison and Catherine worked while under the influence of psychedelic brew ayahuasca. |
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