Yet, remove these physical forces, and how many good citizens would shoot, like fiery comets, from their spheres, and disturb society with their eccentricities and their crimes.
When a bar of iron is drawn white-hot from the forge it emits fiery particles, which the man commonly flings in a shower upon the ground by a swing of his arm before placing the bar upon the anvil.
Peter also in his fiery zeal might have drawn his mistaken sword.
A long white beard hath he and unkempt; and his eyes are fixed in a fiery stare, and a scarf is knotted upon his shoulder, as is a pilot's wont.
John 3:3) These fiery trials through which the Christian passes have the same effect upon him that a fire has upon metal.
If hell means a place offiery torment, how could Jacob preserve his gray hairs there?
At the same time the hair caught fire and threw out a single flame, clear, swift, and barbed like a fiery tongue.
The horse, proud and fiery in spite of its small size, pricked up its ears and pawed the ground.
This man rode a fiery steed and led another which seemed no less impatient.
He nodded to the Duc d'Alencon, waved his hand to his sister Marguerite, passed Henry without apparently seeing him, and sprang upon the fiery Barbary horse, which started off at once.
Coconnas, on the contrary, as soon as he opened his eyes, fastened them on La Mole with an expression which proved that the blood he had lost had not modified the passions of his fiery temperament.
All this presented to the Piedmontese's fiery spirit a fearful mixture of the fantastic and the real.
It creaked in the lock, the door opened, they saw the fiery gulf; the Marquis entered it.
Beneath it lay a cave of lava, above an arch of fiery coals.
Had he succeeded in making his way; or had anotherfiery chasm opened under his feet; or had he but ended his own life?
He could distinguish nothing in the coppice, but the fiery eyes of all were directed upon him.
And this Tybalt, being of a fiery and passionate temper, could not endure that a Montague should come under cover of a mask, to fleer and scorn (as he said) at their solemnities.
She was a lady of such an ungovernable spirit and fiery temper, such a loud-tongued scold, that she was known in Padua by no other name than Katharine the Shrew.
I was met by a big, shaggy-haired dog with red, fiery eyes.
He jumped up from his seat and delivered me two resounding fiery boxes on the ears.
Big fieryletters seemed to carve themselves out before my eyes.
In fine, if I lift up my eyes, I perceive in the clouds that fly above us a sort of hanging seas that serve to temper the air, break the fiery rays of the sun, and water the earth when it is too dry.
All the sanguinary, sacrilegious, execrable ambition of the worst popes seemed written in fiery characters on the brow of this son of Ignatius.
By the continual emitting of heat, however, these fiery balls had a crust form on the outside, which enclosed a fiery fluid nucleus.
By a continuous increasing of refrigeration and condensation, a fiery fluid or molten state occurred in these rotating bodies.
The masterfulness in little things, the irritability, the watchfulness of the fiery little professor of rhetoric were utterly distasteful to her.
The meaning of their work he could not see, but a fearful and impressive phantasmagoria of flame and blackness and fiery energies at work in the encompassing night.
A man is known by his works, and the works of Daniel were his three friends, who, rather than bow down to men or gold, braved the fiery furnace.
He was called "fool" because his acts were so far beyond the dictates of human reason, and "mad" because of his irresponsible fiery zeal for Christ and men.
I fought the fiery Dragon And brought it to great slaughter, And by that means I wish to win The King of Egypt's daughter.
However, in this fiery Island, they furnished themselves with good water, which they much wanted.
If ye put fiery coles under an Apple tree, and then cast off the powder of Brimstone therein, and the fume thereof ascend up, and touch an Apple that is wet, that Apple shall fall incontinant.
Of quite similar origin is the name carbuncle, a term applied to nearly all fiery red stones in Roman times, but now used to designate garnets cut in the oval form known as cabochon.
Under the name of carbuncle mention is made of it in the literature of all ages, its impressive feature being usually the brilliant, fiery light which it gives forth.
I see a fiery pit with a lot of imps dancing about, hurling balls of fire at each other.
After Wellington, whose way to Waterloo left here itsfiery track, we exclaim: "O for August or Madrid!
The landlady and her daughter are busy with a fiery fury.
At length he arrived in sight of the fiery serpents, and stopped to study them.
He glared at the Maidens with his red fiery eyes, and exclaimed, "Why do you stand there?
When he had climbed to the top of the mountain he saw two fiery griffins; but he passed between them without the least fear of danger, for they could not see him because of his invisible coat.
And when he had said that, two great black cats came with one tremendous leap and sat down on each side of him, and looked savagely at him with their fiery eyes.
He flew up in a fiery mantle," said another; "the most lovely little cherub peeped forth from among the folds.
It is six leagues in length, and guarded at the entrance by twofiery dragons.
The pale but very bright blue eyes under shaggy auburn brows were fiery with courage and keen with shrewd enterprise.
All day long the windows were tightly closed to keep out the fiery air, both the old green blinds and the glass within them.
Something in the fierce action appealed strongly to the fiery Celtic nature of the man.
How they could retain such a reserve of fiery power after the work they had accomplished, seemed hard to explain.
We're a pack of hirelings," asserted the fiery little woman.
Behind the hills, the whole horizon, like a fiery circle, was ringed with flashing light.
They talk about the editor's opinions," struck in a fiery little woman who was busy flinging crumbs out of the window to a crowd of noisy sparrows.
They felt rather than saw the recoil of their foes, who at first had been pressing upon them with such fiery vehemence.
Then silently setting light to her fiery contents, he slipped overboard to Leofric, and the two cast off, and rowed with muffled oars to the appointed landing-place, where their friends awaited them.
Charging down the hill, they met the answering charge of mail-clad warriors; but the slope of the field was in their favour, and they hewed them down and routed them, despite the fieryresistance they met.
And now, no longer restrained in the smallest degree by respect for a severe mother or fear of a fiery father, the new despot, surrounded by parasites, gave free rein to all his vices.
Indeed, so recreant a scion was he of the stock, that he might have objected possibly to a muscular and fiery wife whose pastime was the chopping of heads.
Could it be that his fiery nature was consuming, torn by the pincers of remorse?
