Use fierce in a sentence
Sentences starting with fierce
- Fierce and tenacious, steel in the cruelty of his desires, fearful in the havoc he had wrought, could he be subdued? [9]
- Fierce indignation for her own folly suddenly seized upon her with such overmastering power that she looked away from the sovereign toward the singers, who were summoning the whole world to pay homage to yonder broken-down man, as though he were a demigod. [10]
Sentences ending with fierce
- It was so long since he waked from that long sleep, and the world was so full of noises, the air so arid, and the light of the sun so fierce. [11]
- We got off level ground, goin' down, an' then the steers ran somethin' fierce. [13]
- Dryfoos laughed, showing his lower teeth in a way that was at once simple and fierce. [8]
- Pontius had made her feel a foe to the flames which only a short time before had filled her with delight as they soared up to the sky, wild and fierce. [10]
Short sentences using fierce
- Don't look so fierce, Meister! [10]
Sentences containing fierce two or more times
- And now a fierce form fronts them all, Two fierce eyes search their faces, Then flash their fire on Rafe Ridall, Whose mirth no peril chases. [11]
- Oh, fierce, fierce as the governor when he catches a French spy! [11]
More example sentences with the word fierce in them
- True, he had yielded reluctantly to this arrangement of his parents' old friend, and neither she nor Daphne had hitherto succeeded in soothing the fierce resentment against fate which filled his soul after the loss of his sight and his dearest friend. [10]
- But before the words were well out of his mouth, his cap flew off and a fierce blow jerked his head to one side. [2]
- Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
- The skies rang with the howls of the fierce monsters. [5]
- This it was which made him invulnerable amidst all the fierce conflicts his gentle words excited. [6]
- What those wishes were Katharina knew only too well; the probability of their accomplishment had roused her fierce jealousy and made her hate Heliodora. [10]
- The further we went the worse the roads were, and yet when my companions turned at the city-gate to ride homewards again, a strange, fierce confidence came upon me. [10]
- After a few weeks of this kind of life, he began to want some more fierce excitement. [6]
- During a whole week my head was in a turmoil night and day fierce enough and exhausting enough to upset a stronger reason than mine. [5]
- How impatient, how weak in faith, how rebellious they had showed themselves at the first obstacle they had encountered, how uncontrollable they had been in following their fierce impulses. [10]
- Its huge mouth was open, and all its fierce lust for killing showed again in its wild lunges. [11]
- In her heart was fierce tumult. [11]
- But now, without warning, a sudden fierce yearning took possession of her: surprised and almost frightened, she stopped irresistibly and looked back at the thin little figure crouched beside the water, to discover that his widened eyes were still upon her. [9]
- Without, the fierce war-cry of the Shawanees that I knew so well echoed around the log walls, and the door trembled with a blow. [9]
- With that conviction Venters felt a shame throughout his body, and it marked the rekindling of fierce anger and ruthlessness. [13]
- Watchful, yet apparently unconcerned, unmoved by the quarrels, the fierce demands for "action," he sat on the little stage, smoking his cigars and reading his newspapers. [9]
- Now it was Tom's face that was close to mine, and the light of a fierce anger was in his blue eyes. [9]
- Then he turned to the set, fierce men beside him. [11]
- He had come to the Parsonage in the fierce strength of his youth. [14]
- It was wonderful to see with what fierce speed the tall sheet of flame traveled! [5]
- It was marvellous to see the influence he exercised over this fierce spirit, and how calm--nay even cheerful--Cambyses became, when the Athenian was near. [10]
- The Sheriff stooped to lift Bignold up, but Grassette waved them back with a fierce gesture, standing over the dying man. [11]
- Then a longing to kill seized me, a longing so strange and fierce that I could scarce be still. [9]
- Her hand went to her heart once as though its fierce throbbing hurt her. [11]
- It is impossible to describe that fierce, jubilant song of the saw, which even when we were near was never shrill or shrieking: never drowning our voices, but vibrant and delightful. [11]
- I went blindly through the woods for hours after the night fell, my horse stumbling and weary, until at length I came to a lonely clearing on the mountain side, and a fierce pack of dogs dashed barking at my horse's heels. [9]
- Kuni also felt this, and asked herself how it had been possible for her heart to cherish such fierce hatred against this little one, who had numbered only eleven years. [10]
- But here again they were disappointed, for the gate was closed, and some fierce dogs, barking at their approach, obliged them to retreat. [12]
- At this season they engage in fierce conflicts. [1]
- The noise of the tramping of great armies across the Old World shook the New, and men in whom the love of fierce fighting was born were stirred to quarrel among themselves. [9]
- We rushed up the stairs to the top of this scaffolding, and stood there, above the vast outlying world, with hair flying and ruddy blankets waving and cracking in the fierce breeze. [5]
- And there, in the silence of her chamber, began the fierce struggle between desire and what she called her duty--a duty imposed from without. [4]
- The Plain of the Shepherds is a desert, paved with loose stones, void of vegetation, glaring in the fierce sun. [5]
- As it opened, the Seigneur sank back in the chair, a look of helpless misery, touched by a fierce pride, covering his face. [11]
- It required all the military genius of Caesar to conquer the fierce hostility which he encountered here. [10]
- It was in the midst of the fierce contest here at the Bruchium. [10]
- He was spared the indignity of the coat-of-arms on the tombstone only by the fierce opposition of Louis Lavilette, who upon this point had his first quarrel with his wife. [11]
- By this time the fire was making fierce headway, and several persons who were imprisoned under the ruins were begging piteously for help. [5]
- It is, on the contrary, a most zealous defence of Perkinism, and a fierce attack upon its opponents, most especially upon such of the medical profession as treated the subject with neglect or ridicule. [6]
- And so when the burglar-alarm made a fierce clamor at midnight a fortnight ago, the butler, who is French and knows no German, tried in vain to interest the dog in the supposed burglar. [5]
- O aching days that passed Filled with strange fears, each wilder than the last: The soldier's lance,--the fierce centurion's sword, The crushing wheels that whirl some Roman lord, The midnight crypt that suck's the captive's breath, The blistering sun on Hinnom's vale of death! [6]
- He had noticed that one of those sudden fierce winds, called Southerly Busters, was sweeping down towards the craft, and would catch it when it came round sharp, as it must do. [11]
- Here it was that Krool's antipathy to Jasmine and fierce hatred of Fellowes had been nurtured. [11]
- The bare summit that day was swept by a fierce, cold wind, and lost in an occasional chilling cloud. [4]
- He had been telling me about Brandywine, but suddenly he turned to me with a kind of fierce gesture that was natural to the man. [9]
- But that fierce Talbot would hear of no delay. [5]
- How had he succeeded, in this fierce gale, in kindling the torch so soon into a powerful flame? [10]
- Then a fierce stretching of hands In gloom; and my feet, Treading tremulous over hard sands; A wind that wailed wearily slow, A plashing of waters below, A twilight on bleak lone lands, Spread out; and a sheet Of the moaning sea shallows aflow. [11]
- While we are still young we feel a kind of pride, a sort of fierce pleasure, in any important experience, such as we have read of or heard of in the lives of others, no matter how painful. [8]
- If the little spotted fawn can think, it must seem to her a queer world in which the advent of innocence is hailed by the baying of fierce hounds and the "ping" of the rifle. [4]
- And if she spoke, the impertinence of the suggestion might send back to the fierce Medici that same lover, to lose his head. [11]
- It pains me some that this tilt for the place of Colonel Baker's friend grows so fierce, now that the Colonel is no longer alive to defend him. [7]
- But the gracious solace of tears seemed to be denied her, and her grief, like her anger, was a dull ache, longing, like that, to finish itself with a fierce paroxysm, but wanting its natural outlet. [6]
- Heads are not so cheap in our Anglo-Saxon countries; passions not so fierce and uncontrollable. [9]
- With a fierce shout, "The one would betray us, the other is mad! [5]
- In that reflection she found a certain fierce joy. [9]
- The same slender shape, the same cunning, fierce look, smoothed over with a plausible air. [6]
- To nearly every severe and fierce rule, Mrs. Eddy adds this rivet: "This By-law shall not be changed without the consent of the Pastor Emeritus. [5]
- Kaid's face had set into fierce resolution, but as he took the amulet his eyes softened. [11]
- He was a sensitive, conscientious person whose life should have been in the vale; and yet at that moment he had a fierce desire to confront Jethro Bass and--and destroy him. [9]
- A cold shiver seized me, and I was on the point of flying from the spot, when a fierce hurricane came from the East, struck the tree and overthrew it, so that its spreading branches were cast into the Nile. [10]
- The old man seemed to measure her height in a glance which struck to her heart with its fierce enmity, and then he said deliberately: "On the morning of the nuns' flight the accused, Paula, went to the convent and there tolled the bell. [10]
- Meanwhile she had scarcely noticed how high the longing for liberty was surging in the Netherland nation, and with how fierce a glow hatred of the Spanish tyrants was consuming the hearts of the people. [10]
- This was the real fierce heat of the forge fire to which the dead woman had wished to entrust her purification and transformation. [10]
- As her thoughts ran on, the indignant tears would spring to her eyes, and she would spit out fierce little ejaculations at intervals. [5]
- He had a quick fierce temper, but it had never been severely tried; and so well used was he to looking cheerfully upon things, so keen had been his zest in living, that, where himself was concerned, his vanity was not easily touched. [11]
- It is without question that fierce and most destructive fluid called lightning. [5]
- She tried to put Ditmar from her mind; she sought in desperation, not only to keep busy, but to steep and lose herself in this fierce creed as an antidote to the insistent, throbbing pain that lay ambushed against her moments of idleness. [9]
- His face became purple and distorted, his body convulsed, then limp, and presently he lay on the ground with a knee on his chest and fierce, bony hands at his throat. [11]
- Never did man pluck up his courage so quickly, or look so fierce, as Mr Chuckster when he found it was he. [12]
- And in this planning, his trip to Cottonwoods, with its revived hate of Tull and consequent unleashing of fierce passions, soon faded out of mind. [13]
- He saw the people passing through the wide verandahs of the houses, like a vast colonnade, down the street, to be happily sheltered from the fierce sun. [11]
- In the latter part of the last act, where the "Gladiator" (Forrest) dies at his brother's feet, (in all the fierce pleasure of gratified revenge,) the man's whole soul seems absorbed in the part he is playing; and it is really startling to see him. [5]
- The fight was over, the fierce game at an end. [11]
- As this fearful ordeal we are about to pass through pictures itself to my fancy in all its dread sublimity, I begin to feel my fierce desire to converse with a genuine Emperor cooling down and passing away. [5]
- The plaintive voice on a high fierce key, "Scat, you devils"--and a racket as of flying missiles. [5]
- Window shades, of oil stuff, with milk-maids and ruined castles stenciled on them in fierce colors. [5]
- Some were thrust off into the water, but so fierce was their onset that others gained the wharf, laying sharply about them in all directions, but getting full as many knocks as they gave. [9]
- That fierce valley of the Missouri, which belches fitful blizzards from December to March, is sometimes quiet. [9]
- But the dregs of the fugitive hordes were still more greedy than they, and wherever the sea washed a costly ornament ashore, there were fierce outcries and angry quarrelling. [10]
- He had something of the family beauty which belonged to his cousin, but his eye had a fierce passion in it, very unlike the cold glitter of Elsie's. [6]
- When they spoke of the Cherokees and told how that same Stuart--the companion of Cameron--was urging them to war against our people, a fierce anger blazed within me. [9]
- But this act of self-control must have cost the hot-headed, powerful man a great effort; for he shot a fierce look at the instrument which had had so narrow an escape, and gave it a push of vexation with the back of his hand. [10]
- The upper button of her close-fitting flannel suit had strangled her as her bosom heaved with exertion, and it had given way before the fierce clutch she made at it. [6]
- She was capable of fierce tempers, of great caprices, of even wild injustice, when her emotions had their way with her; but her heart was large, her nature deep and broad, and her instincts kind. [11]
- Life with Brown, of course, was not all sorrow, and in this letter we find some of the fierce joy of adventure which in those days Samuel Clemens loved. [5]
- He had not noticed the almost fierce strength of his clasp. [11]
- But she felt no resentment now, only a fierce exultation at having dared. [9]
- Though there was no breath of air the atmosphere quivered, as it seemed from the fierce rays of the sun, which were reflected like arrows from everything around him. [10]
- My sluggish soul needs a fierce upstirring, and if it would not get it when Grant enters the meeting place I must doubtless "lay" for the final resurrection. [5]
- Go to the nearest chemist and ask him to show you some of the dark-red phosphorus which will not burn without fierce heating, but at 500 deg. [6]
- He touched the mustang with the spur, and in a few fierce leaps found himself nearly abreast of the frightened animal he was chasing. [6]
- He grasped the musket-barrel, and swung his sabre with fierce precision. [11]
- By these means Mr Swiveller calmed the agitation of his feelings, until his applications to the ruler became less fierce and frequent, and he could even write as many as half-a-dozen consecutive lines without having recourse to it--which was a great victory. [12]
- His name is Misdral, he is very fierce and mighty, and lives among the waste rocks over there on the north shore of the lake. [10]
- And through the marvels of the Inland Seas, and by white conestogas threading flat forests and floating over wide prairies, until the two tides met in a maelstrom as fierce as any in the great tawny torrent of the strange Father of Waters. [9]
- The old man made a start toward her, but he fell back in his chair before she was gone, and, with a fierce, grinding movement of his jaws, controlled himself. [8]
- Once the animal made a fierce snap at his shoulder, but he deftly avoided it, gave it a thrust with a sharp-pointed stick, and began the song again. [11]
- But even the loveliest prospect would not have induced Barbara to open her eyes, for the indignation which overpowered her had increased to fierce rage, blended with a fear usually alien to her courageous soul. [10]
- They would either love each other as they got older, and pair like wild creatures, or take some fierce antipathy, which might end nobody could tell where. [6]
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