Shot-through-with meaning

p. 307) calls him an "inextricable compound parthenogenetic deity"; and finds, in the fact that his chief festival (when his paste idol was shot through with an arrow, and afterwards eaten) was at the winter solstice, ground for believing that he was at first a nature-god, whose life and death were connected with the year's.

acerbic view of life, shot through with several musical numbers.

shootectious, ridiculously danceable and shot through with sparkling sequins shimmering in the cities ' moonlit glow.

Without mind no orderly world: only through the action of the subject and its " ideas " are the confused and incoherent data of sense-perception (themselves shot through with both strands) built up into that system of things we call Nature, and which stands out against the subject as the body stands out against the soul whose functioning may be said to have created it.

Infectious, ridiculously danceable and shot through with sparkling sequins shimmering in the cities ' moonlit glow.