He was a man who had met me in the streets of the other city when I was still ignorant, who had convulsed me with the utterance of that name which, in all this world where we were, is never named but for punishment,the name which I had named once more in the great hall in the midst of my torture, so that all who heard me were transfixed with that suffering too.

He stood for a moment transfixed in astonishment.

In a swift survey, his features transfixed at first with astonishment, then glowing with pride, the father half rose from his chair, as if in an impulse to embrace the prodigal.

The mere transfixing of the eel did not always mean his securing, but another of us must put a lance in the contorting curves and with quick and dexterous motion lift him to the bank where his struggles might be ended with knife or rock.

The females experienced brutality and murder, and the tenderest infants were perhaps transfixed to the mother's heart by a ruthless weaponcaught up by ruffian hands, and dashed against the rocks or the treesor wantonly thrown up into the air, and caught on the point of the warrior's spear, where it writhed in agony, and died, ...

Such were the fancies that flashed through his mind as he made a desperate lunge at the advancing foe, one of whom he transfixed from breast to back, whilst the rest in an instant overthrew and trampled him under foot, if I may use the expression.

He did not move as I looked at him nor raise his eyes, but stood transfixed under his agony.