The fire was still too distant to be clearly seen among the trees, but the sky reflecting its red fury sent down a glow which, but for the dense smoke, would have been like early twilight.
Again a blood-thirsty savage scream sounded above the fury of the fire and wind, and Murky also appeared on the flame-shrouded balcony.
Provoked to fury he swears to {256} avenge himself.
Electra, daughter of Agamemnon, who also loves Idamantes perceives with furyhis predilection for the captive princess and endeavours to regain his heart.
I never saw a human being with such a fighting fury as Will, who sprang at him like a leopard.
Off Ischia we had the news that put the Admiral into a fury we were glad to see him in again.
I shall be in a fury of impatience till I come back.
In a blind access of fury he took a step forward and raised his riding-whip.
A noise like the first sullen growl of a vexed wild beast which telleth that fury is fast travelling and the teeth will flash, followed these words; and the King called to his soldiers of the guard, 'Ho!
Bravely and perseveringly though this was done, it availed not, for nothing could withstand the fury of the fire.
Night closed in, and the flames continued to rage in all their fury and magnificence.
Notwithstanding these inauspicious circumstances, Napoleon opened his trenches on the 18th of March, in the firm conviction that the Turkish garrison could not long resist the fury of his onset and the skill of his engineers.
The Turks, in the mean time, with huge clubs laid on without mercy; but all this could not repel them, the excess of their fury making them insensible of pain.
Few who ever saw him roused can forget the fire of his eyes, the fury of his face, the sting of his tongue.
With each new suggestion of doubt, Whistler's fury grew.
But his fury lasted only for the moment, and he and Lavery and J.
The nearness of the enemy left no room for fire-arms, the fury of the attack no time for loading; man was matched to man, the useless musket exchanged for the sword and pike, and science gave way to desperation.
The hardships of war he shared with the meanest soldier in his army; maintained a calm serenity amidst the hottest fury of battle; his glance was omnipresent, and he intrepidly forgot the danger while he exposed himself to the greatest peril.
Even amidst all the fury of the conquest, cold calculations of prudence guided the course of the war, and the vigilance of the different courts increased, as the prospect of peace approached.
The attack was now renewed with redoubled fury upon the heavy battalions of the enemy's centre; their resistance became gradually less, and chance conspired with Swedish valour to complete the defeat.
Their territory had been given up to the fury of his troops, though Magdeburg itself had escaped his vengeance.
Night and darkness at last put an end to the fight, before the fury of the combatants was exhausted; and the contest only ceased, when no one could any longer find an antagonist.
With the confidence which was the natural fruit of so many victories, Gustavus Adolphus commenced the siege of Ingolstadt, hoping to gain the town by the fury of his first assault.
Five hundred Spaniards, who had so courageously defended the place, fell indiscriminately a sacrifice to the fury of the Swedes.
Scarcely had the fury of the flames abated, when the Imperialists returned to renew the pillage amid the ruins and ashes of the town.
Nor was this an exaggeration, whether we consider the greatness, importance, and prosperity of the city razed, or the fury of its ravagers.
It was not till the fury of the contest was over, that the full weight of the loss sustained was felt, and the shout of triumph died away into a silent gloom of despair.
Her hand stole to her heart to still the fury of its beating.
She had longed to believe in the fury of love--in that irresistible attraction between men and women.
The storm had spent its fury now, and only the steady drip, drip of the rain reminded him of the falling of tears.
The thunder crashed again, and again the fury leaped to his eyes.
That evening a strong wind was playing havoc with the waves, and the fury of the maddened spray was beating a fierce accompaniment to their hearts.
The storm had ceased and in the brilliancy of the afternoon sunshine little trace of the fury of the night could be seen.
It was here only that rocks could have been rolled down upon an army, and here is that narrow, strangling gorge where the line of march could most easily have been cut in two by the fury of the mountaineers.
Ellen saw Bruce shrink in fear of his life; and despite her fury she was filled with disgust that he could imagine she would have his blood on her hands.
She relaxed, and that strong, dark look of fury seemed to fade back into her eyes.
But his gasping utterance was one of horrible mortal fury and terror.
How weak and frail seemed her body--too small, too slight for this monstrous and terrible engine of fire and lightning and fury and glory--her heart!
To meet their gaze was an ordeal that only her rousing fury sustained.
Of a humming-bird that flew into a fury with a flower, and tore it to pieces, because it could not get the honey out of it all at once.
At length the animal flew with diminished fury at the door; its screams became feebler and feebler, till, at last, they totally ceased.
Random snatched up the manuscript, and, with all the fury of criticism, began to read aloud some of the passages which he disliked.
At last the evil reached such a pitch that the people rose, and with indiscriminate fury destroyed good and bad alike.
He raced after a fearsome Water-snake on a sunny bank, and, scared by the fury of his onslaught, the Snake slipped out of sight.
Time and his prodigious struggle with the plague had combined to crush and crumble to bits the fury in his rock-ribbed soul.
The passengers, already out of thrall to the salteadores, would have risen in tumultuous, uncontrollable fury at this firing on a defenseless woman.
The nostrils of his high predatory nose twitching and working, his whole ashy face working and grimacing with fury like a horrible mask of rubber, he leaped after her.
If the fury that boiled within him verged on hatred it was that he felt her to be even more guilty towards him than toward his father.
And it became furywhen you saw that this woman liked me best and would have nothing to say to you.
Pierre clenched his fist in his fury with an almost irresistible impulse to fly at his brother and seize him by the throat.
I am told that the poor dear fellow fought with a fury perfectly superhuman, and had you given ground must have ran you through a dozen times.
At any moment, now the chaise was at a stand, the door might open and he be hauled out to meet the fury of his pupil's eye, and feel the smart of his brutal whip.
Her shrieks rose above the rumble of the wheels and the steady trampling of the horses; she added to the noise by kicking and beating on the door with the fury of a mad woman.
But the storm now gathering, that was to sweep the mighty from their seats, was destined also to vent its fury upon the man of the people whose riches and honors long had been the objects of their jealous rage.
Failing in this, and having made the fatal avowal and received the King's orders to assume the garb of a woman, the fury of d'Eon knew no bounds.
It is not my fault if the fury of betting upon all sorts of things is such a national malady among the English that they often risk more than their fortunes upon a single horse.
Although the storm of the Revolution was gathering already, its shadow had not yet fallen upon Beaumarchais, who did not foresee either its fury or the extent of the devastation it was to carry in its train.
From the determined refusal of Beaumarchais to increase the sum arose the wild fury of d'Eon, who saw his last hope escape him.
All the adversaries of his numerous lawsuits and all those whom his riches irritated denounced him to the fury of the masses, as one who upheld authority, or who was hoarding wheat or arms.
Finding that Beaumarchais was inexorable on this point, all the pent-up fury of the chevalier blazed forth.
On the other hand, a party of the besiegers who had entered by the postern on the opposite side were now issuing into the court-yard and attacking with fury the remnant of the defenders in the rear.
Bryan Hawkshaw got up bleeding at the nose, having indeed been surprised, as many a stronger man might have been, by the fury of the attack on him.
And then I hear black horsemen Hallooing in the night; Hallooing and hallooing, They ride o'er vale and height, And the branches snap and the shutters clap With the fury of their flight.
The shrieking shell, The quaking trench, the startled yell, The fury of the battle hell Shall wake you not, for all is well.
Thus far successful, Cedric spurred his horse against a second, drawing his sword and striking with such inconsiderate fury that his weapon encountered a thick branch which hung over him, and he was disarmed by the violence of his own blow.
He knew Polcher wished to pacify him, and this knowledge only fanned his fury higher.
Jackson, his soul boiling with furyat the brutality of the threat.
Believe me, my loved lord, 'tis much unkind; What fury has possessed your altered mind?
A saplin pine he wrenched from out the ground, The readiest weapon that his fury found.
The battalion had to withdraw from the wood during the night, which was illumined by a fury of bursting shells.
But the eager wind kept fanning it into fury whenever it shewed signs of abatement and not until it reached the barren banks along the water's edge did it relinquish its grasp on men's household goods and homes.
That house was attacked with great fury from front and rear, but the extraordinary and well applied labours of Mr. Joseph Dunlop, and his crew of workmen from the shipyard, aided by the city firemen, kept the flames at bay.
All along Carmarthen Street the flames sped quickly, completely encircling every house with which it came in contact, and whenever they met a crossing street the fire drove through it with seeming greater fury and impetuosity.
She went stone-blind in the fury of a passion that had never before showed its power.
And she tossed there while her fury burned and burned, and finally burned itself out.
She had heard of Bishop Dyer forgetting the minister in the fury of a common man, and now she was to feel it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fury" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
