Fierceness

Examples

• Fascination is never so imperial as when, roused and half ireful, she threatens transformation to fierceness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It can't last for ever, returned Richard with a fierceness kindling in him which again presented to me that last sad reminder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You cannot imagine with what fierceness she guarded her. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They gave him a long, loud, ringing cheer, as he concluded: with all his fierceness, he was their favourite professor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Something in that dying scene had checked the natural fierceness of youthful passion. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There was something like fierceness in Lydgate's eyes, as he answered with new violence, Well, then, if you will have it so, I do like it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He stared back on her with gloomy fierceness. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Will, starting to his feet, moved backward a step, frowning, and saying with some fierceness, Yes, sir, it was. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But his success should be judged by the size of his task, by the fierceness of the opposition, by the intellectual qualities of the nation he represented. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The partners’ wrote frequently to each other, and their letters show the fierceness of the struggle they were waging to protect their rights. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

Checker: Neil