What is "unpierced"

Usage examples of "unpierced".

This whiteness was shot, at the hour of sunset, with streaks of sulphur yellow and dappled with small, ribbed clouds tinged with yellow-green, a bitter and cruel shade of green that distressed the eyes as a merciless light distresses them, but these colours quickly faded, and again the whiteness prevailed for a brief space of time before the heavy falling of a darkness unpierced by stars.

On a stand beside it was an unpierced wine jar set in an enormous bowl of snow.

Ten years ago the unpierced hull could not have been used since that was when atomic differentiation had first been made practical.

His hair was close-cropped, his ears unpierced, his clothes plain, and there was a listless, chalky look on his face.

They were standing in the back room of their new offices in Manchester, before an open door whose frame was built out from an unpierced wall in the manner of the comparable door in Birmingham.

It was quite near the very point of the ship, near the black, unpierced space ahead.

Mary Ann up she set her on her knee and rocked her gently, saying nothing but looking away out of the window, over the roof tops, into a narrow stretch of clear sky, unpierced by even one tall chimney or crane or mast.

One would expect an eight-year resident of bohemian Greenwich Village, hovering somewhere in her late twenties, to dabble in body art or to sport at least a latent ring or stud but Kara's very white skin was tattoo-free and unpierced.

One would expect an eight-year resident of bohemian Greenwich Village, hovering somewhere in her late twenties, to dabble in body art or to sport at least a latent ring or stud but Kara's very white skin was tattoo free and unpierced.