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Perce

Perce \Perce\, v. t. To pierce. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

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Aprille with his shoures soote, the droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

Aprill with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

Elle perce mal les feuillages denses des pruniers et le cantonnement immobile reste sombre.

La seigneurie perce donc sous le sacerdoce, la commune sous la seigneurie.

Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour.

Sharpely they all attonce did him assaile,Burning with inward rancour and despight,And heaped strokes did round about him haileWith so huge force, that seemed nothing mightBeare off their blowes, from percing thorough quite.

Ne dreed hem nat, doth hem no reverence, For though thyn housbonde armed be in maille, The arwes of thy crabbed eloquence Shal perce his brest and eek his aventaille.

An' I'm heah to say, Nez Perce, thet y'u're a marked man on this range.

But you've shore got my hunch thet Nez Perce Isbel is liable to handle any of you fellars jest as he did me, an' jest as easy.

Charlie Grayson, he's a Nez Perce, hunting guide, got my horse off o'him.

Charlie Grayson, he's a Nez Perce, hunting guide, got my horse off o' him.

What, no longer capable of performing the function for which it was designed, watched over us that year when even the winter forgot to cool down‑what observed Sonny Ibrahim, Eyeslice, Hairoil, and myself, as we played kabaddi, and French Cricket, and seven‑tiles, with the occasional participation of Cyrus‑the‑great and of other, visiting friends: Fat Perce Fishwala and Glandy Keith Colaco?

Give you odds in a couple of generations, there'll be a group here who call themselves Nez Perce - or Tsoop Nit Pa Lu but look a lot more like me, or even Eric.

He spent countless days drifting as a Pack-blooded wolf, and then, once he started to change into a man, he lived years with the natives, mostly the Nez Perce.