Ferocious

Examples

• They are a smaller horde than the Tharks but much more ferocious. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• None can imagine her ferocious cruelty who has not witnessed her daily acts for over half a year. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He is most ferocious. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Chained with them were a number of fierce beasts, such as had been turned upon us, and others equally as ferocious. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They danced to the popular Revolution song, keeping a ferocious time that was like a gnashing of teeth in unison. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was not merely that they were weazened and shrivelled--though they were certainly that too--but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Here let them land and teach the Holy Therns such a lesson in ferocious warfare as they will not forget for countless ages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The fighting strength and efficiency of this horde of ferocious green monsters was equivalent to ten times their number of red men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• His manners grew wild; he was sometimes ferocious, sometimes absorbed in speechless melancholy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But doubtless they were as ferocious and cruel as other men he had seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• His expression was pleading rather than ferocious, nor did he bare his great tusks or utter his fearful guttural warnings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• They worked with a ferocious energy which was out of all proportion to the actual result achieved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was a morose, savage-hearted, bad man; idle and dissolute in his habits; cruel and ferocious in his disposition. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Not to be strong of limb, hard of heart, ferocious, and daring; but kind compassionate and soft. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Time and again the ferocious apes sprang in to close with us, and time and again we beat them back with our swords. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He drank again, and became more ferocious. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• With wild, ferocious cries and amidst the nasty squealing of battle-enraged thoats we bore down upon the Zodangans. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• If you knew how hungry and ferocious it is, you would hasten to stay it with a kind word or two. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Oh, what a ferocious monster! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Do you want to run away, you ferocious beast, and break your neck? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We got along very well for a few miles, when we encountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He has not been shaved very recently, but he don't look at all ferocious notwithstanding. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The little doctor looked wrathful, but confounded; and Mr. Payne gazed with a ferocious aspect on the beaming countenance of the unconscious Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• THEY used to come at all hours, and some of them were quite ferocious. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His appearance, in short, presented an odd mixture of the bedraggled and the ferocious. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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