"Transfix" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the use of a canoe the chief grumbled a surly refusal and ordered the white man from the village. Surrounded by angry, muttering warriors who seemed to be but waiting some slight pretext to transfix him with their menacing spears the Russian could do ...
— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... her lorgnette to transfix her daughter with her cold stare. "You asked her to invite Lafayette Ashton? And you ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... economically while Britain falls they are woefully mistaken. The British fleet is their one shield. It if be broken Ireland will go down. They may well throw themselves heartily into the common defence, for no sword can transfix England without the point reaching behind her." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the Fortnightly Review, Feb., 1913, "Great Britain and ...
— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement
... delightful days to Max. His old nervousness was rapidly leaving him, and he was never happier than when out with the two lads fishing, shooting, boating, or watching Kenneth as he stood spear-armed in the bows, trying to transfix some shadowy skate as it glided as if flying over the sandy ...
— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn |
