How To Use Pierce In A Sentence
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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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The lymphatic vessels of the tongue may be divided into four groups: (1) apical, from the tip of the tongue to the suprahyoid glands and principal gland of the tongue; (2) lateral, from the margin of the tonguesome of these pierce the Mylohyoideus to end in the submaxillary glands, others pass down on the Hyoglossus to the superior deep cervical glands; (3) basal, from the region of the vallate papillæ to the superior deep cervical glands; and (4) median, a few of which perforate the Mylohyoideus to reach the submaxillary glands, while the majority turn around the posterior border of the muscle to enter the superior deep cervical glands.
VIII. The Lymphatic System. 3. The Lymphatics of the Head, Face, and Neck
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Its body has a good deal the shape of the pike; but it is protected by scales of a silvery gray colour and so strong that a dagger could not pierce them.
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Carlotta put the salve on Pierce's wounds, before joining her brother downstairs in the parlor.
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The greatest difficulty which presents itself in entering the southern mouth arises from what in America are termed snags, that is, large trees, the roots of which are firmly planted in the bed of the river, whilst the branches project up the stream, and are likely to pierce any boat in its passage down.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
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10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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A word is no arrow, but it can pierce the heart.
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Contrary to his testimony, Pierce was personally involved in the fraud.
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As the water tumbles over the huge boulders forming a great cloak of foam, the dorsal fins of the salmon along their blue/black backs pierce the sudsy water like an emerging submarine.
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The dead man has a Batman tattoo and a pierced navel.
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The problem is that cowboys like this give legitimate piercers/tattooists a bad name.
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The roster of tattooed, pierced misfits and post-punk gals has become a phenomenon with a recent burlesque revue touring North America.
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Here and there a soldado pulled up, screaming, as a barbed shaft found a crack or pierced a foot or leg.
Fire The Sky
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The samples were subsequently desalted by exclusion chromatography over 5 mL Zebra Desalt spin columns, as recommended by the manufacturer (Pierce).
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His scream pierced right through the howl of the winds, and it made her eyes water with tears.
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The escarpment has been shaped into numerous irregularities, indentations, and promontories, and is pierced by thalweg ravines, gorges, and rocky passages connecting the plain and plateau.
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
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Q: So you went and pierced your tongue with a small diamond.
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The Kansas program continues to be haunted by the collective legacy of Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce and Jacque Vaughn.
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He was unable to pierce the field and his method of blocking the ball with soft hands close to the wickets to pinch quick singles just didn't work.
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An irregular elongated window pierces the massive back wall.
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The doctor had dreadlocks, pierced ears and nose and tattoos everywhere.
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He pierced her amniotic sac, making a therapeutic abortion necessary.
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Peter, however, reassured them somewhat, for, although he was not clad in buckskin and feathers, he wore exquisitely beaded moccasins, a scarlet sash about his waist, a small owl feather sticking in his hat band, and his ears were pierced, displaying huge earrings of hammered silver.
The Shagganappi
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We headed off down Pierce's Passage and over a muddy boulder slope until we reached some cascades.
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Now Ecclestone has responded by engaging the market-maker Harris and his stockbroking firm, Seymour Pierce.
Barcelona's pursuit of Arsenal's Cesc Fábregas does not add up | Digger
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Steam the corn until it can easily be pierced with a fork.
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Shafts of sunlight pierced the heavy mist.
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Another saddle had Sir Gavlok Whitfell's pierced cinquefoil insignia.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.
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While rodents often succeed in opening cocoons and extracting the nutritious pupae, birds rarely invest the time and effort needed to pierce the silken armor.
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Steam leeks for 6-8 min until tender when pierced.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pierced by curves and angles of thin metal, the precarious, canted structure is poised on elegant little wheels.
The Artist in All His Dimensions
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Then a thick, terrific blast pierced through the shield and glanced off the ship, blistering the hull and raking a starboard section open.
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The only contact they have had is through three bore holes which have pierced their bunker.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roger was a shy, sweet Jewish boy with very short black hair, a little stub of a beard and pierced ears.
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He pierced another hole in his belt with his knife.
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The endosperm cap (the testa included) was placed on the needle and was pierced by moving the needle down into a polyvinyl chloride block with a conic hole with a minimum diameter of 0.7 mm.
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She has already pierced her nose, her ears, her navel and now, her tongue.
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Writer Peter Pierce believes that the fear of being lost in hostile desert or bushland has been deeply etched into the Australian psyche ever since Europeans colonised the southern continent.
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The character and costume of an archer, or of a spear-man, were ascribed to such as roamed through Hades, to pierce the dead with arrows or with javelins.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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There is a scene in which he must pierce her ears to wear the borrowed earring, and it is shockingly erotic.
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He pierced another hole in his belt with his knife.
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So the unhappy mother had pierced her breast with a dagger, and, by her side, similarly self-slain, lay the serving woman who had miscounselled her to wrongdoing, yet, as I could quite well comprehend, from motives of sincere affection, to safeguard for her her husband's love and to give her the joy of motherhood for which she craved.
Tales of Destiny
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Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
The Two Trees
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The dominant decorative feature is the array of ornate brasses with pierced backplates.
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Just then, a shrill voice pierced through the thick tension in the room.
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The pus has formed beneath the derm, and has pierced a small hole through it.
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We walked down the valley through rainforest so thick with plants that light barely pierced the canopy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cook the duck until the juices run pale yellow when the flesh is pierced.
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The stormy petrel soars with a scream, a streak of black lightning, as an arrow pierces the clouds, on wing-tip slicing the wave froth.
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Computer hackers, electronic bugs and supersensitive microphones threaten to pierce the Vatican's thick walls next week when cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to name a papal successor.
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unpierced ears
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Polakow-Suransky pierced the consciousness of Gotham's education community late last year, in the wake of Cathie Black's appointment, assuming the role of deputy chancellor for performance and accountability to buttress his boss' subpar C.V. Dubbed "a data mining administrator" by The New York Times, he was introduced to the locals with the menacing headline, "New Schools No. 2 Wants More and Better Testing.
Susan Ochshorn: Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Getting It Right
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Sirens pierced the silence of the night.
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I will disarm him with smiles and pleasant words," she every day resolved; yet every day was she pierced anew with his arrowy verbality.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You
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To let the air in, the cheese wheel is regularly pierced all the way through with a long needle, and the mold develops all along the thin tunnels thus generated.
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Beyond it was what Jamie referred to as "the doocot"; or so I assumed, from the assorted pigeons that were fluttering in and out of the pierced-work opening at the top of the building.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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A hole is pierced through the skin and cartilage of the nostril.
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HIFU can pierce through tissues and orientatedly injure target tissues inside organisms.
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At one stage it was a place of great industry, with a mill at Ballypierce, a forge near the Ball-ally, a corn store, sand-pits and a wool store.
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One of these pierced the envelope and set it on fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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His head had a halo of curls at the bottom and both his ears were pierced with spike earrings.
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The sarrusophones of French invention are a complete family, made in brass and with conical tubes pierced according to geometric relation, so that the sarrusophone is more equal than the oboe it copies and is intended, at least for military music, to replace.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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Rose underwent emergency surgery after a bullet pierced her lung.
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Let me thank WIPO staff for facilitating WHO collaboration with the Franklin Pierce Law Center at the University of New Hampshire.
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But we bleed when a sword pierces, we die when it cuts deeply enough.
Year of the Unicorn
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The confrontation is a geopolitical law of history, also is the longest topic that pierces through the world history. It bases on the sea power theory of Mahan and the land power theory of Mackinder.
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It pierced his left lung and spleen.
The Sun
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I have a pierced nipple and I breastfed for a year and it was no problem.
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On each side of the groove the dura is rough, because of its attachment to the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone and because it is pierced by numerous olfactory nerve bundles.
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Her most emotional moments are pierced by shafts of wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her words pierced the students
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He turned around and two cloudy purple eyes pierced through her.
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Cameo breastpins were a favorite with many, while nearly every girl had her ears pierced for earrings.
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There are many instances in which the lumbricoid worms have pierced the intestinal tract and made their way to other viscera, sometimes leading to an anomalous exit.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Why on earth did you fasten a quarrel on me?" asked the spadassin; "and why, having done so, did you spare my life; for your sword was at my heart when you shifted its point, and pierced my shoulder?
The Parisians — Complete
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Pierce's other opponent for the Democratic nomination was James Buchanan of Pennsylvania. Buchanan was a northerner who would probably leave the South alone.
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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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Nigel was beaten down on to the crupper of his horse by a sweeping blow; but at the same instant Chandos 'quick blade passed through the Frenchman's camail and pierced his throat.
Sir Nigel
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These nonentities are pierced by longings they can't name or fathom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pierce the skin of the potato with a fork.
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Rain bars are long tubes pierced with spray holes.
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One man laboriously cut the pierced decoration with a fretsaw and a variety of steel punches.
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The needle pierces the fabric four times a second.
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One bullet pierced the left side of his chest.
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It pierces the lateral intermuscular septum, and passes between the Brachialis and Brachioradialis to the front of the lateral epicondyle, where it divides into a superficial and a deep branch.
IX. Neurology. 6b. The Anterior Divisions
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A chorus of high-pitched wolf howls pierces the stillness of a frigid January morning.
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The name pierced the core of his silence and shat'tered into echoes, each one a pledge of compassion.
Stormwarden
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Arthur, with his sword holden in both his hands, on the side of the head, that the sword pierced the helmet and the brain-pan; and then Sir Modred fell stark dead upon the earth.
The Age of Chivalry
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She then turns to a woman next to her and says in, what I would characterize as a misleadingly casual, voice, "Do you know Tammy Pierce?
Archive 2006-06-01
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One of these pierced the envelope and set it on fire.
Times, Sunday Times
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A plethora of other problems transpierce him in every part of his being, however, like St. Sebastian's arrows; and the countenance that he raises to the unseeing skies is likewise that of a martyr.
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Rutherford knew that alpha particles, which readily pierced the atom's cloud of electrons, didn't have enough energy to penetrate and pry apart the nucleus.
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With Mary Pierce, Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport ranked in the top half-dozen, women's doubles is hitting a golden era.
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The knife had pierced his heart, but incredibly he was still alive.
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Suddenly a light pierced through and she shielded her eyes from the sudden blinding glow.
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It's primarily used for exactly the reason you used it: to pierce a hole in leather or, sometimes, wood.
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Sixteen to 18 year olds could have other parts of their bodies pierced provided they had clearly verifiable permission from a parent or guardian.
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Out of the Blue's "Dead Gnome" line features garden gnomes with pistols in their mouths, or holding up the dripping heads of decapitated brethren, industriously sawing their own hands off, hanging from a gibbet, grinning glassily at the arrow that's pierced their heads, and so on.
Boing Boing
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The needle pierces the fabric four times a second.
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Could neither graze nor pierce] [T: of change] To _graze_ is not merely to touch superficially, but to strike not directly, not so as to bury the body of the thing striking in the matter struck.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Wulfgar's gray eyes pierced the man.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.
Solitude of Self
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But the fpear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his fword lopped off his head, as it bended in death.
The Poems of Ossian
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Hepplewhite is most associated with pierced and shield-back chairs often with wheels, lyres, or Prince of Wales feathers, and painted or japanned work of gold on black.
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You may have heard of "irresistible" letters -- sales letters that would sell electric fans to Esquimaux or ice skates to Hawaiians, collection letters that make the thickest skinned debtor remit by return mail, and other kinds of resultful, masterful letters that pierce to the very soul.
How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence
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To their amazement, his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle, winning him the silver arrow.
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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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The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look. She couldn't pick worse times.
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The nail pierced through the sole of his shoes into his foot.
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Shrieks of pain and anguish pierced the night and more yelling sounded as other survivors tried to put out the multiple fires before more were hurt.
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The well-known hoard of chemically inert gold, whose nuggets are not sharp enough to pierce the delegate membrane of a dragon's outer hide, forms a safe and comfortable nesting place.
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Contempt will pierce the armor of a tortoise," says an oriental proverb; and poor Ragni had no chelonian armor.
Essays on Scandinavian Literature
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To their amazement, his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle, winning him the silver arrow.
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The knife had pierced his heart, but incredibly he was still alive.
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Nothing had gotten past them, but the lenses were badly abraded by the hurtling glass particles from the bullet-pierced windshield.
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Pierce grapes with a skewer or needle to allow them to absorb rum.
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And he is quite right: things, when pierced, can never be unpierced.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nail pierced through the sole of his shoes into his foot.
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Rain bars are, as they sound, long tubes pierced with spray holes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He exhaled the smoke and through the haze his eyes rested on the day's end; gulls scraped the underside of a grey sky, cormorants pierced leaden waters to emerge gullet-choked with fish.
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After more vertical drilling at the same location next summer, the main hole will be angled off toward the northeast to pierce the fault zone itself.
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On each side of the groove the dura is rough, because of its attachment to the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone and because it is pierced by numerous olfactory nerve bundles.
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The city would be encircled by its defensive walls pierced by town gates.
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Generation X, best known for its pierced bodies and jaded outlook, is more optimistic about Wall Street than previous generations.
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Feed the other end of the cord up through the pierced hole in the bottom of the flap.
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As if on cue, the sounds of an ambulance siren pierced the air.
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Alain Vaës, whose décors typically have a strong, disquieting presence, has pierced the dancing ground with five huge, asymmetrically placed pillars unconnected to any architectural structure.
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All concrete surfaces should be pierced at regular distances so that rainwater percolates into the ground.
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The light has come to pierce the darkness.
Christianity Today
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After treatment in the HR condition, cytotrophoblast cells were lysed in a cold RIPA buffer (Pierce Biotechnology) containing a protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche).
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Bank secrecy was born; even law enforcement on the track of thieves could not pierce it.
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She had pierced ears but wore neither studs nor earrings and there was no jewellery.
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Mr. CHARLIE PIERCE (Author, "Idiot America"): Christine O'Donnell, because if we're looking for someone to judge a massive public exercise in self-gratification, she's our gal.
Prediction
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Contrary to his testimony, Pierce was personally involved in the fraud.
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A moment afterwards he was killed, pierced through the brain by a Rebel bullet.
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He pierced the skin of cooking Frankforts with a fork.
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The superficial portion runs beneath the Splenius, giving off branches which pierce that muscle to supply the Trapezius and anastomose with the ascending branch of the transverse cervical: the deep portion runs down between the Semispinales capitis and colli, and anastomoses with the vertebral and with the a. profunda cervicalis, a branch of the costocervical trunk.
VI. The Arteries. 3a. 2. The External Carotid Artery
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Rose underwent emergency surgery after a bullet pierced her lung.
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Sudden shafts of light pierce the humid gloom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ten thousand strengths seemed then to heave him from her heart; and struggling with a power that amazed even herself, she threw him from her; and holding him off with her shackled arms, her shrieks again pierced the heavens.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Pierce had not shifted his gaze from the Spanish ensign, but she suspected that he no longer saw the red and yellow fabric billowing in the breeze.
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They clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold, and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc and precious gold, and adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold-filleted Hours wear themselves whenever they go to their father's house to join the lovely dances of the gods.
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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In order to stay away from these images, I will leave you with this: Think innovative punk rockers with safety pins through freshly pierced ears.
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Contrary to his testimony, Pierce was personally involved in the fraud.
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Ignorance and Rashness, then they will see him whom they pierced, when they neglected their Neighbor, sought after money and nothing else; whereas were they cordial in their profession, they would spend Nights and Days in Labour that they might become more learned in their Art, whence more certain health would accrew to the sick with their estimation and greater glory to themselves.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
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Perpendicular window, the heads of the lights below the transom being cinquefoiled, while above each window is a cornice supported by small arches resting on corbels; over all is a pierced battlement, which is also crenelated at the actual east end.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
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I'm 31, and got my left ear pierced a couple of years ago.
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The new Kansas lawmakers did not like the territorial governor. They demanded that President Pierce dismiss him. Pierce agreed.
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I cracked up laughing as Lane suddenly appeared in all her black and pierced glory, bowing to an imaginary crowd before posing for photographs that weren't being taken.
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She fingered one of the three earrings, a miniature church key, that depended from a triply pierced ear.
SORT OF RICH
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All around was evidence of the explosion of water and dammed-up pressure that had brought Casca into the air once he had pierced the underground dam that held back the qanat.
The Eternal Mercenary
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He pierced the rubber ball with a needle.
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Thurlestone takes its name from a 'thirled' or pierced rock, on the shore through which the waves have drilled an arch.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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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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The girl clutched her head and let out a scream of pain that pierced the air, falling to her knees with tears spilling down her cheeks.
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Alas for poor Bill, more arrows would soon pierce him than transfixed Saint Sebastian.
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Suddenly I stopped propelling the ball forward and pierced the prism, ripping a huge jagged scar in it.
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The arrow pierced his shoulder.
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She was pierced to the heart with guilt.
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The supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (ph), Iran's spiritual leader, inspects the troops, and then his message to the U.S. -- a formation designed as a sword pierces a Star of David, the American flag, and a swastika.
CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2007
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Short-sighted, when she lifts her lorgnettes to her eyes, her gaze becomes profound and inquisitive, and her interlocutor feels pierced to the very depths of his soul.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Squab are done when juices run clear when thigh is pierced with a fork.
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Eleventhly, God of his grace had pierced her heart, it is read that S. Clare for to dispend amorously the time that God had lent her, in especial she was determined that from the hour of mid-day unto evensong time, she would dispend all that time in thinking and beweeping the passion of Jesu Christ, and say prayers and orisons according thereto, after unto the five wounds of the precious body of Jesu Christ, as smitten and pierced to the heart with the dart of the love divine.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6
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The guns have special kind of frangible bullets that are designed not to pierce the skin of an airplane.
CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005
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Closer yet, and the clustered spires of each hive soar from the wastes of ash to pierce the highest clouds.
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The interior of the cave, pierced by apertures giving onto the sea and by a sort of skylight open to the heavens, reflects a light of mist and water on its damp walls.
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And right so he smote his father Arthur with his sword holden in both his hands, on the side of the head, that the sword pierced the helmet and the brain-pan, and therewithal Sir Mordred fell stark dead to the earth.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Drillers would plunge through a record depth of water to pierce farther into the ocean floor than anyone had gone before.
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The boys in the bays pierce the waves with the cadent zip-zip-zip of their impact wrenches pulling and replacing lug nuts around various vehicles from one wheel to another.
Sufficient Grace
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Andrew Reeder was governor of a bitterly divided territory. He wanted to warn President Pierce about what was happening.
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The rough grating voices tore through the darkness and pierced his ears.
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For some unaccountable reason, someone has pierced a tunnel through the western end of the southern summit rock blade.
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A sudden howl pierced the silence.
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Still, it should be noted that baggage can be an advantage: David Hyde Pierce, who has proven his versatility and range in a number of Broadway successes, remains for many that persnickety noodge of TV's "Frasier," Niles Crane.
'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
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She was the first girl in the class to get her ears pierced, the first to own a velour tracksuit (we all lusted after it - this was 1980 after all), the first to have her own record player in her room.
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The thorns pierced my skin and grazed my arms and neck.
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He pierced the first, and hurled him to a distance; a second he deprived of existence; a third he emboweled; a fourth he made a warning to all that beheld him.
Antar :
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Not much, the inborn vitality has already hide elephant to pierce through and follows veins and arteries inside the body to spread to open and works properly last sky, descend break, link world.
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Now it was, it is clear, that the sword of sorrow pierced her through and through, for the Queen of martyrs was fearfully and mortally wounded in that part which is impassible, that is, in her soul; and she bore the death of the Cross in that which could not die, suffering all the more her grievous inward death, as outward death departed farther from her.
Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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A legal search is under way to formalise ownership of the property, which was built in 1806 by Pierce Barron of Faha to help educate the poor of the parish.
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And till that Spirit is given us, there is nothing but enmity and disaffection towards God; there is nothing but feebleness and impotence, as to any thing that is good; there is nothing but distemperature and diseasedness in man, which have pierced him to the very heart.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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The darkness of the ink pierced into my eyes like it was incandescently glowing with blackness and burning into my soul.
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The beam of the searchlight pierced the darkness.
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The knife did not pierce very deeply.
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On the stroke of half-time, Stoke finally pierced through the resolute City rearguard with a swift, incisive move.
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The ball the schoolboys originally swatted was a globe of vulcanized India rubber pierced with a hole.
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Cut lemongrass stalks into thin skewers and pierce an oyster on each.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dante: Zip it, or I'll pierce that big nose.
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He had been away since the first rays of watery sunshine pierced the woodland gloom.
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Her shrieking, wailing voice was the whisper of mortality piercing the ears like the banshee's own call, a twin to the driving terror that pierced the mind.
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Recalling the Mother Superior's words of warning, she recorded her failure, as the first of its kind, and prayed that it might not be irretrievable, and that resentment and regret might ebb away and leave her again as she had been before the unforgettable voice had pierced her ears with the truth she had never guessed.
The White Sister
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The bullet pierced the skin of the aircraft.
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Even as the pain pierces my chest and my tears splash upon his brow, the joy is there, the love is there, keeping my hand pressed upon his back and under his cheek, pulling him to me, ever closer, his gurgles and sighs and the sweet smell of his skin a balm for the pain.
Joy, And Pain | Her Bad Mother
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Pierce's horse, Arinex, was tied even more tightly, his head high as he reared and plunged, trying to get free.
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This analysis was performed by following the displacement of holes pierced with fine needles in the basal part of the leaf as presented earlier but extended here for very young leaves.
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A sterculia, the stem of which had served as one of the props of our mess tent, and to which we had nailed a sheet of copper, with an inscription, was considerably grown, and the gum had oozed out in such profusion where the nails had pierced the bark that it had forced one corner of the copper off.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
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Suddenly, one lonely songbird pierced the wall of silence with a stunning serenade.
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Both ears were pierced, but she wore no earrings.
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Those who survived, Piercey thought, as Farling drove along the M4 towards London, had got off better than they deserved.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE