It is braver than the bravest man; it is more timorous than the most fearful; it is fiercer than a lion, gentler than a lamb.
Slowly the sun crawled up to the center of the sky and stuck there for endless hours, it seemed, pouring down a fiercer heat.
In the fiercer moments of the conflict even these feelings are drowned in a wild excitement which may lie either exultation or terror.
It was in vain that two or three of the hardier or fiercer Chiefs and braves shouted and gestured to their comrades, as if urging them to commence the attack.
Now it happened that a disastrous tempest had been raging, a tempest fiercer than any known for many years.
But the sixteenth century was not a time of apathy in any department of life, and the religious question which was agitating the whole Continent burned fiercer than ever in England on account of the increased mental activity.
They had roused in him a fierce jealousy, which, with the peculiar perversion of this instinct, had turned tofiercer desire.
She was sitting perfectly still with her hands in her lap, and his man's hatred of anything conspicuous happening to a woman, to his own mother of all people, took fiercer fire.
The black ones are much fiercer than their white congeners; although the latter are by far the largest, and present a far more formidable appearance, from the extreme length of their horns.
Of their conduct in battle, fiercer than that of Baresarks, where was there ever seen the parallel?
Francis raised himself a little, and a fiercer note crept into his tone.
He went out and battled with the pitiless storm, a fiercer storm beating within his breast than that which raged without.
There was Guthrun, as hearty as ever, and there was Hungwar, and he looked fiercer and wilder than of yore; and Guthrun cried to the disguised King.
Though Hungwar and Hubba be terrible as the storm god and fiercer than the fire, yet I go on," said Wulnoth stoutly.
For, mark you this, Wanderer--if these black strangers come into our good Wessex, they will find us fiercerfighters than were those of East Anglia.
There, side by side, Hungwar and Hubba sat, older and fiercer now than when Wulnoth had seen them lead the attack at Lethra, and they had been bad enough then.
If thou goest to Lodbrok, the son of Sigurd, beware of his two sons, for they are merciless as the edge of the sword, and fiercer than the flames in war time.
But the fire that words had already kindled in the poor lord's heart, grew fiercer at this kiss which had been so earnestly sought for and so cruelly denied.
But you may be sure that the more virtue prevented her eyes and features from testifying to the hidden flame, the fiercer and more intolerable did that flame become.
But in Europe there are much more than a dozen Governments, and their enmities are much fiercer than those of China.
The bloodthirsty shout rolled through the ranks fiercer and fiercer till the wild roaring chorus was deafening.
But they were accustomed to the use of arms, and they separated from the empire barbarians much fiercer and more formidable than themselves.
Had Germany been reduced into the state of a province, the Romans, with immense labor and expense, would have acquired only a more extensive boundary to defend against the fiercer and more active barbarians of Scythia.
Although the progress of civilization has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favorable to the virtue of chastity, whose most dangerous enemy is the softness of the mind.
No sooner however had the bird flown away, when a fiercer temptation than the holy man had ever yet experienced, assailed him.
Ellak likewise, now divided his horsemen for a regular attack, and the fighting continued fiercer than ever.
And ever as they spoke their faces grew fiercer and their fingers played with their spears.
Come, my children, let us wash in the fire--we who are fiercer than the fire!
With concealed approval, masking a deep love fulfilled yet incomplete, his father watched the growth of this fiercer strain that mere covert shooting could not satisfy, nor ordinary sporting holidays appease.
The faces, that had grown fiercer and fiercer with approval as his tirade grew more and more uncompromising, were now distorted with grins of anticipation or cloven with delighted cries.
The sky, indeed, was so swarthy, and the light on the river relatively so lurid, that the water almost seemed of fiercer flame than the sunset it mirrored.
Onward came the mighty Bhishma and the slaughter fiercer grew, From his bow like hissing serpents still the glistening arrows flew!
Greater than the ancient grandsire, greater than the Brahman old, Fiercerin thy deathless hatred, stronger in thy prowess bold, Peerless Karna!
The grey hounds are the swiftest of dogs and a pair of them are invariably to be found in a pack, the balance being some heavier and fiercer breed of dog, such as the blood hound, fox hound or a cross of the two.
Fierce is our hunger, fierce are the five battalions Sent here to conquer thee; But fiercer yet the drought that steals my beauty Midst this surrounding sea.
Occasionally a fiercernote creeps into the hunter's mood.
For since Each hand made ready in its wrath to take A vengeance fiercer than by man's fair laws Is now conceded, men on this account Loathed the old life fostered by force.
But nature protests 'tis all quite otherwise; For this same love it is the one sole thing Of which, the more we have, the fiercer burns The breast with fell desire.
And ever the fiercer be the stock, the more In sleep the same is ever bound to rage.
The side windows of the north-east chamber are rounded at the top, but the openings are so small that it was not necessary to construct these arches with voussoirs, and they are merely cut out of the masonry of the wall.
No part of this dome is standing, but it is safe to conjecture that it was built of brick.
These Mongols were fiercer and more ruthless than the Japanese who overran the country three centuries later and they were far more numerous, besides.
This brought from the officials a new and fiercer protest and they told the king that these acts would make his reign a subject of ridicule to future generations.
A man lay at his feet, his long hair tossed in disorder, his long coat spread out like a black blotch upon the ground.
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