The fierceness of this creature's countenance altogether discomposed me; though I stood at the further end of the table, above fifty foot off; and although my mistress held her fast for fear she might give a spring, and seize me in her talons.
With a sudden fierceness he pursued after the other, keeping his wild eyes fixed upon him with a glare of passion and madness in them.
He was brought to his senses, when it was with equal fierceness and almost equal strength returned.
Finance measures lost their interest in the fierceness of the political combat.
A kind of administration is botched up for the present, and even gave itself an air of that fierceness with which the winter set out.
It is an absolute wolf, but uncommonly large, and the expression of agony and fierceness remains strongly imprinted on its dead jaws.
And as they obeyed, Michael strained backward in a paroxysm of rage, making fierce short jumps to the end of the tether as he snarled and growled with utmost fierceness at the steward.
This time he went straight at the man, fetching up against the cage-bars with such fierceness as to shake the structure.
Michael's heredity, rigidly selected for ages by man, was chiefly composed of fierceness and faithfulness.
The act, which was absolutely natural, superb, electrified Janet, restored in an instant her ownfierceness of spirit.
The sight of her, even as she appeared crazed by anger, had set his passion aflame--for the intensity and fierceness of her nature had always made a strong appeal to dominant qualities in Ditmar's nature.
By God, if--" He demanded this accounting in a tone of passionate fierceness such as none of those present had ever heard in him, turning first upon William Pressley and then upon Robert Knox.
She ran to him and caught his sleeve, and turned upon William Pressley with the reckless fierceness of a gentle creature made daring in defence of what it loves.
There was a strange, cold fierceness in the Tall Master's face.
Her voice was low, and vibrated withfierceness and determination.
So, from this tribune, the members of that race of iron and blood, of fierceness and of guile, have assisted at the mystical sacrifice of the Lamb of God!
Like a light extinguished, all the fierceness went out of her face, making way for what seemed pain and terror.
Some idea of the fierceness of the fighting may be gleaned from the casualties the 1st Division suffered.
But the fierceness of the landing had shaken the nerve of the Turkish army; for the moment, I believe, the attack was paralysed.
Ah, rather like a Ravisher you come, With Love and Fierceness in your dangerous Eyes; And both will equally be fatal to me.
I stroked it gently, on which the mutinous rogue seemed to swell, and gather a new degree of fierceness and insolence; so that finding it grew not to be trifled with any longer, I prepared for rubbers in good earnest.
Ether 6:6 6 And it came to pass that they were many times buried in the depths of the sea, because of the mountain waves which broke upon them, and also the great and terrible tempests which were caused by the fierceness of the wind.
It is by no means so lively as the monkeys, and sits for hours at a time in a melancholy mood on the bough of a tree, exhibiting only the natural fierceness of its class when attacked.
Notwithstanding the fierceness of their nature, they may be tamed and made obedient when young; but their innate malicious nature reappears in old age.
As usual the north suffered, especially from the fierceness of the Earl of Argyll, who disliked the more moderate policy advocated by Montrose.
These animals possessed nearly all the tracking qualities of the bloodhound, with more fierceness and speed than the mastiff, and nearly the same amount of strength.
It has won a world wide reputation for its fierceness and voracity, and on this account is popularly known as the Glutton.
There was a fierceness in it that revealed its existence.
Fierceness and fire beat upon one day after day and--one must learn to feel here.
No one here has any right to consider me or my actions," he said, fierceness blazing out of him.
She is proud as a Touareg and there is fierceness in her.
His eyes shone in the faint light with a fierceness of emotion in which there was a joy that was almost terrible, but in which there seemed also to be something that was troubled.
The bloodier waxed the battle, so the more Its fierceness blazed, the louder was its roar.
The German garrison in the wood were evidently demoralized by the fierceness of the Canadians' assault, having counted on the effective fire of their machine guns to shatter its force.
These words inspiring them with a fiercenesssuch as he desired, they advanced towards me with more fury than before.
And great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of wine of the fierceness of wrath.
By faith he forsook Egypt, and feared not the fierceness of the king.
Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he trod the winefat of fierceness and wrath of almighty God.
A chain D, attached to the end of the lever, opens the check draft, and another at C closes the draft damper.
The damper regulator is one of the boiler accessories which so governs the drafts of the furnace as to keep a constant water temperature in the hot-water heater or a constant steam pressure in the steam boiler.
Many fires had occurred in London, but none that raged with such fierceness as the present conflagration, or promised to be so generally destructive.
The flames now raged with a fierceness wholly inconceivable, considering the material they had to work upon.
Having burned with incredible fury and fierceness for some time, the whole roof of the sacred structure fell in at once, and with a crash heard at an amazing distance.
Judith, with a fierceness that effectually insured obedience to her command.
