" The other discovers the condition of his tucked-up coat-tail with some fierceness of aspect, but immediately explains that it must have been caused by his sitting upon a folding-chair just before leaving home.

Still, the captain fancied that he could detect a covert fierceness in his eye and air, and he felt uneasiness even while he yielded him credence.

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.

"Get out!" said that gentleman, with extraordinary fierceness for one in his weak condition.

As he passed Emily and Denbigh, he threw a look of fierceness at the latter, which he meant as an indication of his hostile intentions.

The snow was trailed and stained with blood and the scent of it added greater fierceness to the wolf-breeds.

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

With it he ran with great fierceness into the very thickest of the press, and before he was checked he struck down five knights with that one spear.

He had no power to speak this: it was one of those thoughts that scathe the nerves that serve the tongue, and which flit and burn, and will not ameliorate their fierceness by the common means given to man in mercy.

She shook it off with more of fierceness than dignity, and the man's eyes fairly sought the ground beneath the glance she gave him.

There was a strange fierceness under her dead, gray eye.

He protested with whimsical fierceness against being made a hero or a sage; he was what he was, he said, and nothing more; and he was inclined to be rude when people tried to force him into an eminence which he refused.

There was a caged fierceness about them that strangely stirred her.