Do we say angry or furious

angry 6479 occurrences

Be not angry with me, O master!

Come, the master will be angry.

Last night I heard the angry sea-gods!

Angry words to us for coming into their own waters.

advance one step at your periltry to go and complete arrangements for a matrimonial engagement at the Bower of Nature, and thou diest!" Verty was getting angry.

But I knew something must have happened to make you so angry.

I'll get angry!"

" "What do you mean, sir?" "You are angry.

"Then I am angry sometimes," he said, "though not often.

"Yes, you look angry.

"That is not right," he replied; "Redbud says it is wrong to be angry" "Redbud!"

" "I have a right to be angry," continued Roundjacket, flourishing his ruler; "it would be out of the question for me to be anything else.

"Yes! the Capital of Virginia, forsooth!" "Has Williamsburg made you angry, sir?" "Yes!"

But Toad-in-the-hole always "reclaimed"he was even angry at comparisons.

For the news of these things had flown fast, and many of them were angry and some were doubtful.

[Sidenote: Sir Tristram is angry] Now some while after he had gone, Sir Tristram came into the hall where the others were, and there he found them all sitting with ill countenances, and no man daring, for shame, to look at his fellow.

So the ship fled away before that tempest, and the hearts of all aboard were melted with fear because of the great storm of wind and the high angry waves.

Many of the Irish knights were exceedingly angry at this, and so likewise was the King of Ireland.

With angry seas periodically demolishing the outermost houses, it seems almost unaccountable that the little town should have persisted in clinging so tenaciously to the high-water mark; but there were probably two paramount reasons for this.

Why should we not love Naturethe great mother, who is, I grant you, the necessity of various useful inventions, in her angry moods, but who, in her kindly moments" He paused, with a wry face.

As a matter of fact, he generally made his readers more sorry than angry, and he did not realise that even if he had been successful it was but a poor reward for the wanton spoiling of much good work.

And once more it was his fate to make us rather sorry than angry.

she cried in a low voice, in deep disgust, and as she spoke she dropped his arm in contempt, though she still held his face with her angry gaze.

I was angry about Taquisara.

I do not know why I was so angry at you.

furious 2092 occurrences

Napoleon, disappointed and furious, blustered, and threatened war, unless he too could come in for a share of the plunder, to which he had no real claim.

In the case of the furious carrying out of this doctrine by the crazed French revolutionists, it led to outrageous confiscation, on the ground that all property belonged to the state, and therefore the representatives of the nation could do what they pleased with it.

vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap.

fierce, wild, rageful^, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless &c 919. flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.

For, even as Percival ceased speaking, there suddenly entered the pavilion a certain very large and savage knight of an exceedingly terrible appearance; and his countenance was very furious with anger.

Then Sir Boindegardus was in furious rage, wherefore he drew his bright, shining sword with intent to slay Percival.

So he rushed the battle with might and main, and therewith struck so many furious blows that by and by that other knight held his shield very low for weariness.

This Sir Percival perceived, and therewith he smote the other so furious a blow upon the head that the knight sank down upon his knees and could not arise.

And so, Sir Percival riding forward with furious violence, Sir Clamadius was overthrown, horse and man, with such violence that he lay there upon the ground as though he were dead.

This furious curiosity, needless speculation, fruitless meditation about election, reprobation, free will, grace, such places of Scripture preposterously conceived, torment still, and crucify the souls of too many, and set all the world together by the ears.

In London the King was fired at on his way to open Parliament, and on his return his carriage was attacked by a furious mob, and was only protected from serious injury by a troop of the Life Guards.

And now a clause in the second bill, binding the Irish Parliament to reenact the Navigation Laws existing in England, called up an opposition from Grattan as furious as that with which Mr. Brownlow had denounced the original measure.

furioso, -a, furious. furtivo, -a, furtive, clandestine, fleeting; cazadores s, poachers.

They charged with such furious animosity, neither of them heedful of protecting his own person, provided he could wound his opponent, that each, pierced through the buckler by his adversary's blow, fell from his horse in the throes of death, still transfixed by the two spears.

The war had made Bertin a furious jingo.

There was a personal note in the furious diatribe that Bertin hurled at him that Clerambault could not understand.

Kennaston she pitied a little; but his bearing toward her ranged ludicrously from that of proprietorship to that of supplication, and, moreover, she was furious with him for having hinted at various times that Billy was a fortune-hunter.

Titus Otacilius, vociferating in the most furious manner, that his object was to continue in the consulship, the consul ordered the lictors to go to him, and as he had not entered the city, but had proceeded directly without halting from his march to the Campus Martius, admonished him that the axes were in the fasces which were carried before him.

A shout was raised before the senate-house by a crowd of people variously disposed and uncertain of the facts; but as they were conducting themselves in a furious and menacing manner, the bodies of the conspirators in the vestibule of the senate-house restrained them with such alarm, that they silently followed the more discreet part of the commons to an assembly.

The men resumed their rush, and the next moment the boys found themselves fighting to escape a furious assault.

But the rest of the party regarded the furious storm with interest.

Then, with a bellow, he rushed upon Roy, who contented himself by sidestepping the furious onslaught.

By torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger neigh'd, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riv'n, Then rush'd the steed to battle driv'n, And louder than the bolts of heav'n Far flash'd the red artillery.

But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained snow, And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 'Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling[B] dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulph'rous canopy.

Even the furious mob was awed, and for a while stood dumb.

Do we say   angry   or  furious