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    piercing


    1. back out along the road, and there, sure as eggs are eggs, he saw headlights piercing


    2. piercing of his canines within her flesh, she whispered one last question


    3. His eyes could be disconcertingly piercing, at this point they probed for enlightenment


    4. He was posed like a statue, giving nothing to any but a piercing stare


    5. He looked up and back out along the road, and there, sure as eggs are eggs, he saw headlights piercing the dank mildews of the afternoon


    6. As Lucy felt the waters of the wolf rising above her head, entombing her in his flesh, as she watched, fascinated by the bending of his neck and felt the first exquisite piercing of his canines within her flesh, she whispered one last question


    7. In their photo, her piercing brown eyes stare straight into the camera, unafraid, weighing and assessing everything


    8. He saw her standing there in her black puffer jacket, with her long black hair and her belly button piercing, and his heart started to pound


    9. black hair and her belly button piercing, and his heart started to


    10. The animal had piercing blue eyes that watched your every move

    11. The woman fixed him with a piercing glance, softened by a wry


    12. They were an odd pair to see, Harry tall and dark-haired with those piercing green eyes, and Jameson already nearly as tall and lanky like his father, with his shock of red curls---an inheritance from his mother


    13. But he didn’t have a chance to do more than register her presence as at that very moment Mrs Brown uttered a piercing shriek


    14. He was interrupted by a piercing screech and shuddering jolt in the train; and it began to slow


    15. give out a short, piercing scream


    16. The eyes were piercing


    17. Staring up into a pair of piercing blue eyes she thought might believe anything she said, she uttered "The sun rise


    18. He turned and looked at her as if he knew what she meant, his eyes were piercing but not painfully, they were gentle – then he looked back down at the water


    19. "You listen to me, and listen good girl, because I don't ever want to say this again" His steely blue gray eyes were piercing


    20. She’d set the alarm for three-thirty, but it must’ve been piercing the air for nearly twenty minutes before she was aware enough to respond to it

    21. When his piercing blue eyes meet hers, she knew she’d guessed right


    22. Glayet woke from a sound sleep disoriented by a piercing blast


    23. shooting Grouse a piercing “I told ya so” glance


    24. Bruce looked into Otto’s piercing eyes


    25. There, looking back at her, were the piercing blue eyes of Max Sheehan


    26. Their humor was cut short by a bullet piercing the forehead of the agent standing


    27. lance of the knight piercing the mouth of the monster and


    28. and with his clear, piercing blue eyes and aristocratic


    29. it seemed a minute or maybe an hour that they stood there, then it was over and Sky's piercing whistle called them away


    30. His hope mounted with every twang of the bowstring and every sight of his arrow piercing into undead flesh

    31. Instead of landing punches, his fists became blades of black steel, cleaving his foes into pieces or piercing their flesh


    32. A dark black beard, and piercing eyes the color of a polished sword


    33. After they threw each one a piercing glance,


    34. He stood in front of her, no mask or officer uniform on him, yet something about his piercing gaze stirred Maileena


    35. The divine mystery of all creation which is to be seen and contemplated, opens up that unique and thoughtful incomparable knowledge of the glory which is not obtained by abandoning creation but by piercing through it with exercise of the spirit and soul combined


    36. Her long, raven black hair, piercing blue eyes, bronze skin and those womanly curves were enough to make any man’s mouth go as dry as desert sand


    37. Another time they met again on the front porch and she remembered the piercing, hostile eyes that looked first at Kurt and then at her


    38. Garrett slid the needle expertly under Sebastian’s skin, piercing the vein


    39. Moments later a flashing red light mounted in the low ceiling above him began to flash urgently, with a piercing beeping tone


    40. delivered the blow, and letting rip with a piercing blast on her whistle

    41. piercing the maze would either mean a lifetime of digging or a lot of men lost in the tunnels


    42. Surrey, like most other counties, had built-up conurbations, tower blocks that rose to cloud level, their tapered tips sometimes piercing the lower cumulus configurations


    43. I put the letter down and picked u the old photos the first one I held up showed a very austere woman dressed in black but you could see that she was every inch an aristocrat by her face and jaw line her eyes also looked quite piercing even on an old photo


    44. He shuddered as he remembered Khan’s body falling to the ground at his feet, the crowd’s callous shifting of allegiance, Millicent’s piercing scream


    45. A piercing noise in his head, through his ears like tinnitus amplified; a million screams feverishly resonating


    46. His wore a flaming red goatee beard and his eyes were a piercing green


    47. " Well…because we didn’t know what they might shoot at us with next, like armoured piercing rounds that will penetrate our armour


    48. Spencer looked at me with his piercing blue eyes, right into my heart


    49. I turned around to face him, looked at him, at his piercing blue eyes, blinking the tears back from my own


    50. He'd been out hunting beetles by a large tumble of rocks when the Talisman hanging about his neck had flashed brightly, reflecting the moonlight into his eyes with a piercing intensity













































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    Synonyms for "piercing"

    cutting keen knifelike lancinate lancinating piercing stabbing acute discriminating incisive penetrating penetrative sharp boring mesmerizing hypnotizing enthralling fascinating shrill earsplitting strident blaring grating harsh

    "piercing" definitions

    having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions


    painful as if caused by a sharp instrument