The storm, which had been exceedingly fierce while it lasted, had quieted down to a steady fall of snow.

In the height of my inner conflict, I had almost cried aloud the fierce denial which would arise at this thought.

McCready had beaten himlong ago; his master had beaten him; and during all this day their voices were fierce and vengeful in his ears.

With a fierce snarl he flung his whole weight once more at the end of the chain.

With a fierce growl Kazan snapped at his extended hands.

But they rose to a good height notwithstanding, and the weather on the top of them in the wintertime was often bitter and fiercebitter with keen frost, and fierce with as wild winds as ever blew.

Meanwhile the French Sixth Army was pressing on from the west, and from the 6th to the 9th there was fierce fighting in and round Vareddes.

It has suffered very heavy losses in the fierce resistance of the first days of the struggle and in the pursuit; it has lost immense quantities of material of every kind and almost all its magazines and depôts; it has left in our hands, up to the present, about 300,000 prisoners with complete staffs and not less than 5000 guns.

There is something almost lurid in the sharpness of contrast with which the wonderful height of humanity attained by Hellas is set off against the fierce barbarism which characterized the relations of its cities to one another.

If only I blow right fierce and grim, The creature will soon be dimmer than dim.

So they took courage and rested where they were; and Odo returned galloping back to where the battle was most fierce, and was of great service on that day.

One flies, another pursues swiftly: the combatants are many, the plain wide, the battle and the mêlée fierce.

And again a fierce mêlée was to be seen, with many a blow of lance and sword; the English still defending themselves, killing the horses and cleaving the shields.

She was in the sudden fierce grip of such anger as kills, of such defiance as suffers death and does not yield.

Several minutes were spent in exchanging fierce sentiments and slapping the palm of the left hand rapidly with the back of the right.

Here are two points miraculously co-uniting; fierce society, with the feeling of solitude still absolute; noon-day revelations, with the accidents of the dull grey dawn unquenched and lingering; the present Bacchus, with the past Ariadne; two stories, with double Time; separate, and harmonising.

I had forgotten the pack of fierce dogs, which, as the King of the Mountains had told me, were the best of all his sentries.

" As a beginning, they stripped me to the waist, and their cook put me close to a great fierce fire, where some lambs were being fried.

With lightning speed he shut the door, and in a distressed tone uttered the name of the Madonna, when a violent blow shattered the door, and the whole opening was filled with the head of a fierce buffalo, whose body was tightly squeezed into the doorway.

I'll lame you, that I will!" As he was belabouring me with a great cudgel, a band of fierce men armed with swords and carrying lighted torches appeared.

Taking her in his arms, he spread out his wings, and carried her to Olympus; and there they live together in unending bliss, with their little child, whose name is Joy." V.The Further Strange Adventures of the Ass While the old woman was entertaining the beautiful captive with this charming tale, a tall, fierce young man in ragged clothes stalked boldly in among the robbers.

Augustine at first showed great moderation and patience and gentleness in dealing with these narrow-minded and fierce sectarians, who carried their animosity so far as to forbid bread to be baked for the use of the Catholics in Carthage, when they had the ascendency; but at last he became indignant, and implored the aid of secular magistrates.

So thought the German Quietists when they revolted from the fierce degradation of decaying Lutheranism.

They made it without motive as well as without prevision, in a transport of feeling or for the sake of pastime, to display their strength or to escape from listlessness; and, whilst making it, they abandoned themselves without scruple to all those deeds of violence, vengeance, brutal anger, or fierce delight, which war provokes.

A fierce combat took place between them and the division of the Prince of Wales.