Maggy tried not to let her son's words pierce her so, but she couldn't help it.

His next words pierced her flesh like darts of scented ice.

These apparently simple words pierced Morrel to the heart.

The boy spoke quite calmly, but somehow the words pierced right through the front that Bernard had adopted.

It was as if his words had pierced my heart, riveting me to the chair in which I sat.

About him, or any of this;" Caroline felt the words pierce her.

He groaned low in his throat, as if her words had pierced his heart.

The uncertainty was so unlike her, the words pierced his heart.

The words of the chorus pierced her like a needle in her flesh.

The words pierced sharply through the unnatural sweetness other tone.