Raging

Examples

• The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• To me, you brought it; on me, you forced it; and the bottom of this raging sea,' striking himself upon the breast, 'has been heaved up ever since. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• First of a' he must go raging like a mad fool, and kick up yon riot. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What power this woman has to keep these raging passions down! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I have started up so vividly impressed by it, that its fury has yet seemed raging in my quiet room, in the still night. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hold of it was lost in the raging fever of a nation, as it is in the fever of one patient. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Jo had burned the skin off her nose boating, and got a raging headache by reading too long. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The disputes between the proprietaries and the people of the province continued in full force, although a war was raging on the frontiers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Worcester visited him on the following evening, and found him raging under the influence of a brain fever. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It was a cool spot, staid but cheerful, a wonderful place for echoes, and a very harbour from the raging streets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There he perched, hurling taunts and insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Slight displacements of the raging sea, made by the falling wounded. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The schoolmaster looked at him, and that, too, was a cruel look, though of the different kind, that it had a raging jealousy and fiery wrath in it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was broad day--eight or nine o'clock; the storm raging, in lieu of the batteries; and someone knocking and calling at my door. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Paul raging like a pestilence! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Plague was raging in Rome in 590. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She is raging mad. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then she said violently and raging, What passes with that _Ingl閟? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The ship is shown lying on her side with her machinery and armament shot into masses of twisted iron and steel, great fires raging forward, amidship and aft. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then he was gone; and the door was locked outside; and I was lying, fevered and hot, and torn, and sore, and raging in my puny way, upon the floor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But the Popes during their centuries of power were always raging against the slightest reflection upon the intellectual sufficiency of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She hurried by the train to town, she ran from town to this house, through a raging storm, and presented herself before me in a state of distraction. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In the roaring and raging of the conflagration, a red-hot wind, driving straight from the infernal regions, seemed to be blowing the edifice away. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Sherman from his high position could see the battle raging, with the Confederate troops between him and his subordinate. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Charles found this dispute raging when he came from Spain to Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was of no use raging. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Alarm-bells ringing, drums beating, the sea raging and thundering on its new beach, the attack began. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Instead he perched lightly upon a smaller branch twenty feet above the raging captive. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Prendergast was like a raging devil, and he picked the soldiers up as if they had been children and threw them overboard alive or dead. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by Francine