Lexicographical Neighbors of Pearcing
Literary usage of Pearcing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1847)
"... streight did shew The pearcing arrowes and the fearefull bow That kild great
Pithon, & with that did threat him, To bring his beasts againe, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"bad ones. He has twice as much bonk, and cie-ire to play as ever lie had in his
life, and can't find a moment's leisure. From construing and pearcing Greek, ..."
3. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"... Condemned and tormented was, with all the force they might. 13 To liuing wight
more euill, what could such wretches do ? More pearcing ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"But cast thy pearcing dart, into my panting brest, That 1 may leaue both loue
and life, and thereby purchase rest. Haud ictus sapio. ..."
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