"Perce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... le plaisir d'apercevoir que ma petite prisonniere n'avait d'autre mal qu'une coupure legere que lui avail faite au visage le meme fer qui avail perce sa mere."—Duc de ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... them with neuer so much sence and sententiousnes. Then also must the whole tale (if it tende to perswasion) beare his iust and reasonable measure, being rather with the largest, than with the scarcest. For like as one or two drops of water perce not the flint stone, but many and often droppings doo: so cannot a few words (be they neuer so pithie or sententious) in all cases and to all manner of mindes, make so deepe an impression, as a more ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham |
