If he has hit his mark, he continues his efforts and endeavours to Transpierce it or so to entangle the barbs in the flesh as to prevent its escape.
"A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson"
Watkin Tench
What are these sad solemn accents That Transpierce my very heart, That cut through me like a dagger?
"The Purgatory of St. Patrick"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Yet, one cry I, too, would drive up like a column erect, Marble to marble, from my heart to heaven, A monument of anguish to Transpierce And overtop your vapoury complaints Expressed from feeble woes.
"The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning