It perforates calcareous schists, and is ventilated by 14 shafts.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
The gonosphere having been formed, the antheridium shoots out from the centre of its face, close against the oogonium, a straight tube, which perforates the walls of the female cell, and traversing the protoplasm of its periphery, directs itself to the gonosphere.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
The Mauser perforates, the Martini splinters, the shell pulverises.
"The Siege of Mafeking (1900)"
J. Angus Hamilton