Still, so stubborn was the defence and so dense the wood that the impetus of the assault died away and the troops on both sides broke up into small disconnected bodies, fighting too fiercely to be amenable to superior control.
Though patient and good-tempered in the main, they have a latent warmth of temper, and if oppressed beyond a certain limit they would fiercely turn upon their tormentors.
Mrs Hardon sat crying silently for some time, while the doctor savagely rustled his paper, but all the while reading not a word, for his lips moved, and he talked fiercely to himself.
And then old Matt stuck his hat on very fiercelyand shuffled out of the room, muttering and chuckling as he went down, "Ho, ho, ho!
But as he gazed in the poor fellow's dilated eyes, and saw their look of unutterable despair, one of Jean's hands was fiercelyclutching his shoulder, and the other was pointing and waving frantically towards the open window.
The Reverend Arthur Sterne then looked hastily round, to see that Lucy Grey had passed down the next street, to whose corner he hurried, where he could see her nearly at the bottom, with old Matt striding fiercely along.
Tell me now what evil I have done thee, Hebrew prince, since first thou camest to our land with thy possessions, that now so fiercely thou shouldest lay a snare before me.
Then was the lord of cities blithe in his heart, boasting fiercely and defying God, and said his gods were mightier to save, and greater, than the Eternal Lord of Israel.
The sin and evil of that multitude were fiercely purged by fire.
Verily brimstone and black flame, bitter and grim and fiercely burning, shall visit vengeance on these heathen folk.
Fiercely at midnight He smote the oppressors, slaying their firstborn, laying their watchmen low.
The furnace was heated, as fiercely as might be, with cruel flames of fire.
Though the prince so fiercely thrust them into the heart of the flame, yet a mighty messenger of God preserved their lives, and brought them help from heaven, as many learned.
This provoked some now fiercely excited Irishmen to an outburst of blind rage.
There was the same response in the same tone--its quietness, however, fiercely accentuated by Liberal cheers.
There is none so fiercelyopposed to Home Rule as the Irish Orangeman.
Their faces were very near together, so near, that Jack had only to stoop to press her lips fiercely with his.
It was rather surprising of him, considering how fiercely we quarrelled!
Sobs threatened to strangle her and were fiercely suppressed.
The Corporal began to speak, but the Jew fiercely commanded him to be silent.
Fanny fiercely by the arm, while the poor girl stood afraid and trembling in the midst of that elfish crew--"ha, ha!
The man sworefiercely when he found that there was no powder in the flask.
Others, however, seemed to be telling them that they were cowards, and at last the whole party whirling round their spears more fiercely than before, rushed towards the hut.
This said, his Grace did mend his pace, And came full fiercely on.
On his return to Argos he bursts impetuously into the palace, crying fiercely for war.
Distract his heart with madness: let his soul More fiercely burn than that hot fire which glows On Aetna's forge.
The battle of Jenitsa wasfiercely contested but the Greeks were victorious though they lost about 2000 men.
Rebecca was strugglingfiercely and in silence, save for an occasional shriek of fear.
A few paces behind her was Sir Guy, also mounted, fiercely attacking two pursuing horsemen with his sword.
Then she turned andfiercely elbowed her way outward, followed by her sister.
Rebecca gasped and clinched her hands fiercely on her bag and umbrella.
He bit his lip, clinched his hand, and without another word, struck fiercely with his spurs.
The fever burned fiercelyfor a few days, and when it was quenched there was nothing left but ashes.
He was in a fiercely antagonistic mood, and, as he could not fight Fothergill and Carroll, he fought with his own sense of truth and honor, for want of a better foe.
The eyes, the very heart of a smile, remained fiercely bright, and cold, and questioning.
The man was white as death, and gasping fiercelyfrom his run and this frightful surprise.
The Earl seized her wrist, and fiercely demanded her signature.
They werefiercely recalled, when he mounted the English throne.
The enemy was answering back, not very fiercely yet, and from the center of the town, in or about the Grande Place, came the noise of falling houses or of huge blocks of stone splitting into fragments.
They were barraging the ground about Loos fiercely and continuously.
When only eight were still fighting among the bodies of their comrades these tattered and blood-splashed men, standing there fiercely contemptuous of the enemy and death, were ordered to retire by Major Palmer, the last officer among them.
They made sudden jabs at one another fiercely and with savage grimaces, leaped at men standing with their backs turned, who wheeled round sharply, and crossed bayonets, and taunted the attackers.
It dried up suddenly in 1729, and gave Swift the opportunity of writing some fiercely indignant national verses.
In the reign of George the First such a mania attacked England much more fiercely than it had done even in the days of Ben Jonson.
She turned fiercely upon him with a remark which, while it was not new, was uttered with truly original ferocity.
He heard Ellen, now that her father had driven away, chanting the names of bones and he shouted fiercely to her to be still.
The fiery Frenchman recovering his footing, turned fiercely to Delamere, and asked, in French, what he meant?
He started up, and said fiercely to Crofts--'Well, Sir!
But when he found he could not avoid him, he turned fiercely towards him--'Why do you follow me, Sir?
It was sufficiently encouraging to suit the minds of the most fiercely disposed, while the more timid were pleased with it as it indefinitely put off the time of action.
To my surprise, and contrary to all my expectations, though the seas raged round me as fiercely as ever, the water sank, and as the sea rolled up it struck a lower level of the rock, and I began to hope once more that I should escape.
I had little idea, however, how fiercely it was about to do so.
There was something odd about her walk and Willy followed her, but she turned on him almost fiercely outside.
