His legs are short, his hams are thick, his hoofs are black as night, Like a strong flail he holds his tail in fierceness of his might; Like something molten out of iron, or hewn from forth the rock, Harpado of Xarama stands, to bide the alcaydé's shock.

The fierceness with which the Moors had rushed to the attack had suddenly cooled; they were bold and adroit for a skirmish, but unequal to the veteran Spaniards in the open field.

Her eyes lighted with sudden fierceness.

"They have been endeavoring for hours," he says, "to draw the terrible animals from their dens, but such is their strength and fierceness, that" His voice is drowned.

The word went echoing through his mind like the stern sentence of some high court; conscience again pushed her way to the front, and the struggle in the boy's heart went on with a fierceness that was terrible.

Yes, there he was at last, the monster to meet which the young hunter had so often longedthe terrible size and fierceness of which he had heard so often spoken about by the old hunters.

she cried, with her usual fierceness, terrified for his character, not terrified for herself.

And yet many evil doers have escaped; amongst others" "I know whom you mean, sir," interrupted Leonard, with some fierceness, "but a day of retribution will arrive for him.

The narrow street was instantly filled with goods and furniture of all kinds, thrown out of the windows or pushed out of the doors; but such was the fierceness of the fire, and the extraordinary rapidity with which it advanced, that the very articles attempted to be saved were seized by it, and thus formed a means of conveying it to the opposite houses.

Many fires had occurred in London, but none that raged with such fierceness as the present conflagration, or promised to be so generally destructive.

The flames now raged with a fierceness wholly inconceivable, considering the material they had to work upon.

Having burned with incredible fury and fierceness for some time, the whole roof of the sacred structure fell in at once, and with a crash heard at an amazing distance.

" "Silence!" cried Judith, with a fierceness that effectually insured obedience to her command.

A great battle took place on the Kishna, near Tálicót, which, for the numbers engaged, the fierceness of the conflict, and the importance of the stake, resembled those of the early Mahometan invaders.

But difficulties soon arose, and there was a necessity for learning how to surmount them: the height of some trees, which prevented his reaching their fruits; the competition of other animals equally fond of the same fruits; the fierceness of many that even aimed at his life; these were so many circumstances, which obliged him to apply to bodily exercise.

Hence the fierceness with which they have put forth, and advocated with all their strength, opinions that never were held by any other class of man-owners, and which would have been scouted in Barbary even in those days when religious animosity added additional venom to the feelings of the Mussulmans toward their Christian captives, and when Spain and Italy were Africa's Africa.

Here was an equal pride, an equal fierceness looking forth at him.

Alcatraz was no starveling mongrel, but to the fierceness of a wild horse and the tireless durability of a mustang he united the subtlety which he had gained in his long battle with the Mexican and above all this, his was the pride of one who had already conquered man.

Even as he made the move, though blinded by the fierceness of his own effort, he knew that it would be a tight squeeze.

But the enemy had ten guns to Paine's one, and served them with all the fierceness of party-hate.

He seemed to tear up the ground with fierceness and rage.

That he, at the beam of whose eye every countenance fell, and to whom in the fierceness of his wrath no one was daring enough to reply, should now be regarded with avowed dislike, and treated with unceremonious censure, was a thing he could not endure to recollect or believe.

The blood forsook at once the transparent complexion of Mr. Falkland, and then rushed back again with rapidity and fierceness.

Me he always treated, at these times, with fierceness, and drove me from him with a vehemence lofty, emphatical, and sustained, beyond any thing of which I should have thought human nature to be capable.

There was no mistaking the three upright oblongs of light; they were tall windows in the house, the occupants of which doubtless had been aroused at this unearthly hour by the fierceness of the storm.