1 A terrible sorrow had fallen upon him when he had been happy and he had let his soul fill itself with blackness and had refused obstinately to allow any rift of light to pierce through.
2 He waited silently, striving to pierce through the darkness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 3 He began by moving his bed, and looked around for anything with which he could pierce the wall, penetrate the moist cement, and displace a stone.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 4 We must pierce through the corridor by forming a side opening about the middle, as it were the top part of a cross.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 5 My eyes pierce the inmost recesses of the earth, and are dazzled at the sight of so much riches.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 6 As he approached it, Noirtier's gaze followed him, and his eyes appeared of such a fiery brightness that Villefort felt them pierce to the depths of his heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 108. The Judge. 7 He gazed about him on every side, but the darkness was too dense for the eye to pierce.
8 But what were her feelings when Pavel Petrovitch, Pavel Petrovitch himself, put her hand to his lips and seemed to pierce into it without kissing it, and only heaving convulsive sighs from time to time.
9 On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the swords, meaning them to pierce it.
10 It seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT 11 If you wish to go out, you will be obliged to pierce your wall.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 12 Hence is it they fear and desire, sorrow and rejoice; nor can they pierce the air while barred in the blind darkness of their prison-house.
13 Then Numitor, seizing his dead brother's javelin, aims at Aeneas, but might not fairly pierce him, and grazed tall Achates on the thigh.
14 No wind, however squally, could break through the cover they afforded, nor could the sun's rays pierce them, nor the rain get through them, so closely did they grow into one another.
15 She weeps continually, and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart.