Fierce Sentence Examples

I do not love fierce animals.

I read in my book about large, fierce animals.

When the fear finally subsided, in its wake was a fierce determination.

They entered, and she looked up at him, afraid to address the fierce warrior.

They were as gentle as kittens; but I told her they would get wild and fierce as they grew older.

Fierce is much cross and strong and very hungry.

They were a fierce and illdisciplined force, individually brave and cruel in war, and almost ungovernable in peace.

In the campaigns of 1768-69 the French gradually overcame the fierce resistance of the islanders; and Paoli, after sustaining a defeat at Ponte-Novo (9th of May 1769), fled to the mainland, and ultimately to England.

Open-air conventicles were held in all parts of the provinces, and the fierce Calvinist preachers raised the religious excitement of their hearers to such aitch that it found vent in a furious outburst The lcono- P oasts.

The heavy, masculine features that made him fierce had rendered his sisters too heavy of face to be pretty.

Boccaccio, the contented bourgeois, succeeded to Dante, the fierce aristocrat.

In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.

But before the words were well out of his mouth, his cap flew off and a fierce blow jerked his head to one side.

As the little Wizard turned to follow them he felt a hot breath against his cheek and heard a low, fierce growl.

Many large and fierce bears roam in the Valley of Voe, and when they can catch any of us they eat us up; but as they cannot see us, we seldom get caught.

We haven't seen any civilians in two days, though we've had some fierce battles with some sort of insurgency.

In the charter granted by the Canadian parliament to the Canadian Pacific railway a clause giving it for twenty years control over the railway construction of the province led to a fierce agitation, till the clause was repealed in 1888.

They had fierce eyes and sharp talons and beaks, and the children hoped none of them would venture into the cavern.

On many of the islets numerous tropical fruits are found growing wild, but they are no doubt escapes from cultivation, just as the large herds of wild cattle, horses, donkeys, pigs, goats and dogs - the last large and fierce - which occur abundantly on most of the islands have escaped from domestication.

Oh! groaned Nesvitski as if in fierce pain, seizing the officer of the suite by the arm.

The wild and inaccessible character of the country, the fierce and lawless disposition of the people, the difficulties presented by their language and their complex social institutions, and the inability of the Turkish authorities to afford a safe conduct in the remoter districts, combine to render Albania almost unknown to the foreign traveller, and many of its geographical problems still remain unsolved.

General Loring kindly showed me a copy of one of the wonderful bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence, and I felt of the graceful pillars, resting on the backs of fierce lions.

It was the intense, fierce look of a leader and a warrior, and she was surprised to note a difference in the way he regarded her not more than an hour ago.

Elisabeth let out a fierce growl and morphed into a wolf.

An end was put to these disorders only by the mutual agreement of the two contestants, alike horrified and exhausted by the fierce outburst of passion, in September 1905.

The fierce mining population of the town was mainly German, and fanatically Catholic, in contrast with Prague, which was Czech and utraquist.

Alexander Ghent had fallen into the hands of John Casimir, Farnese and under his armed protection a fierce and intolerant governor= Calvinism reigned supreme in that important city.

The beetles are fierce Antenna of Larva of Gyrinus.

They present to the fierce play of the sun almost a level surface, so that during the day that surface becomes intensely heated and at night gives off its heat by radiation.

During the rutting-season male camels become exceedingly savage and dangerous, uttering a loud bubbling roar and engaging in fierce contests with their fellows.

She couldn't swallow his ability to be a fierce beast shredding human-like creatures with no regard or morals.

A fierce quarrel arose over his burial between the brotherhood of St Stephen, to which he had belonged, and the university professors, who desired to escort his corpse to the grave.

Iliana was a relatively young Immortal who had been at his side for only a few decades, having caught his attention with her fighting skill and fierce loyalty.

But he was at the same time vacillating, and not qualified to struggle against the fierce energies roused by the events of the Revolution.

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The time was one of fierce persecution directed against the Christians, and the bishop of Carthage became a prominent object of attack.

Fierce opposition was aroused.

To these seven groups, which are included under the general appellation of Malissori, or "highlanders," may be added the Malsia of Dibra, who extend to the west and north of that town, and form a large separate group; they are notorious for their fierce lawless character, and maintain themselves by plundering the Bulgarian peasants in their neighbourhood.

The year 1666 (called the annus mirabilis, for it included the plague and the fire of London) was marked by fierce fighting and changes of fortune.

Forgiveness of injuries was as alien from her fierce and loyal spirit as forgetfulness of benefits; the destruction of England and its liberties by Spanish invasion and conquest was the strongest aspiration of her parting soul.

After a fierce electoral fight the Takkians were victors at the first polls, but were beaten at the second ballots.

The old males, however, live alone except in the rutting season, which occurs in October, when they join the herds, driving off the younger bucks, and engaging in fierce contests with each other, that often end fatally for one at least of the combatants.

He was elected after a fierce struggle between two other candidates, Paschal and Theodore.

In 1198 Hubert, who had inherited from his predecessors in the primacy a fierce quarrel with the Canterbury monks, gave these enemies an opportunity of complaining to the pope, for in arresting the London demagogue, William Fitz Osbert, he had committed an act of sacrilege in Bow Church, which belonged to the monks.

The Renaissance was followed by the fierce controversies aroused by the Reformation, and the result was the output of an enormous mass of writings covering every phase of the mighty combat and possessing every literary virtue save that of impartiality.

On the 13th of April 1846 an imperial decree abolished some of the more burdensome feudal obligations; but this concession was greeted with so fierce an outcry, as an authoritative endorsement of the atrocities, that it was again revoked, and Count Franz von Stadion was sent to restore order in Galicia.

The people of Egypt were not naturally fierce or cruel.

The former, called by the Arabs Mukaukis (Muqauqis) from his Coptic name Pkauchios, had for ten years before the arrival of Amr maintained a fierce persecution of the Jacobite sect, to which the bulk of the Copts belonged.

His army, however, under Fiki Adam, fought a fierce battle close to El Fasher on the 22nd, which resulted in its defeat and dispersion, and Abu Gemaiza himself dying the following day, the movement collapsed.

They, however, reserved certain rights, and their insistence on these led to fierce and sanguinary feuds between the burghers and the margraves Albert Achilles and Frederick and Albert Alcibiades of Bayreuth.

At Wigan Lane on the 25th of August a fierce battle took place between the Royalist forces under Lord Derby and Sir Thomas Tyldesley and the Parliamentarians under Colonel Lilburne, in which the Royalists were defeated, Tyldesley was killed and Lord Derby wounded.

A fierce engagement took place wherein the Norman and Flemish troops were utterly routed, and the victorious Cymry slew thousands of their fugitives at the fords of the Teifi close to the town of Cardigan.

At last a fierce family feud came to a climax.

There's no story, no clowning around, just the fierce exhilaration of performance.

A poor defensive header fell to the dangerous Routledge on the left and the winger cut inside before unleashing a fierce swerving drive.

I wake all hours of the night with fierce leg cramps.

I want to be beautiful like Tyra and fierce like MS Jay and George Washington.

Nintendo largely stood its ground, but the competition was incredibly fierce.

Till 1884 an equally fierce agitation was carried on against Ontario with regard to the eastern boundary of Manitoba.

Their vague pantheism landed them in moral confusion, and many of them were marked by fierce fanaticism.

From this type evidently descended the milder and more civilized kings of the XIIth Dynasty, the resemblance being so strong that the fierce figures have even been identified with that dynasty by some.

His mother Khamko, a woman of extraordinary character, thereupon herself formed and led a brigand band, and studied to inspire the boy with her own fierce and indomitable temper, with a view to revenge and the recovery of the lost property.

On the 2nd of October 1855 was promulgated the new common constitution, which for two years had been the occasion of a fierce contention between the Conservatives and the Radicals.

Lord Loftus came into violent conflict with the lord deputy, Viscount Falkland, in 1624; and at a later date his quarrel with Strafford was still more fierce.

They made a fierce resistance to the Roman conquest about A.D.

But perhaps the most singular scene is the council of three great ladies presided over by Servilia at Antium, which decides the movements of Brutus and Cassius in June 44 B.C., when Cassius " looking very fierce - you would say that he was breathing fire and sword " - blustered concerning what he considered an insult, viz.

A fierce battle took place in the plain of Barbata on the little river of Guadaleta (north of Medina Sidonia), in which Roderic was completely routed.

But in October 732 their march was checked between Tours and Poitiers by Charles Martel and after some days of skirmishing a fierce but indecisive battle was fought.

Thereupon a fierce insurrection broke out, against which the governor of Africa was powerless.

The respite of an hour enabled the allies to organize a fierce counter-attack; Ney was checked until the flanking columns of Victor and Reynier could come upon the scene.

Once more God "appoints" something; it is the east wind, which, together with the fierce heat, brings Jonah again to desperation.

The climate shows great extremes of heat in summer and of cold in winter, when fierce north and north-west winds blow across the plains.

And this conduct is the result, not only of his fierce and inexorable character, but also (as the silence of Homer shows) of the want of any general rules or principles, any code of morality or of honour, which would have required him to act in a different way.

As his slender forces were inadequate to encounter the fierce hostility which he aroused, he left Italy in the autumn of 1155 to prepare for a new and more formidable campaign.

Although at times subject to fierce criticism with regard to matters of administration and finance, he was recognized as one of the ablest men on the Confederate side, and he remained with Jefferson Davis to the last, sharing his flight after the surrender at Appomattox, and only leaving him shortly before his capture, because he found himself unable to go farther on horseback.

The growth of Puritanism in Wales was neither strong nor speedy, although the year 1588, which witnessed the appearance of Bishop Morgan's Bible, also gave birth to two fierce appeals to the parliament, urging a drastic Puritanical policy in Wales, from the pen of the celebrated John Penry, a native of Brecknockshire (1559-1593).

Despite the fierce efforts of Vavasor Powell and his brother itinerant preachers to thwart the reception of this South Wales petition at Westminster, Colonel Freeman was able to urge the claims of the petitioners, or " Anti-Propagators " as they were termed, at the bar of the House of Commons, openly declaring that by the late policy of ejectment and destruction " the light of the Gospel was almost extinguished in Wales."

They were slain by a dragon, which was in turn destroyed by Cadmus; and by the instructions of Athena he sowed its teeth in the ground, from which there sprang a race of fierce armed men, called Sparti (sown).

The people are described as being of small stature with dark yellow complexions; they were fierce in appearance, but upright and studious.

Beyond the limits of the Inca conquest the Indians of Chile were distinguished by fierce independence of character and by their warlike qualities.

Except for a brief period of submission to the Ghaznevids (1009-1099) they ruled at Ghor until 1215, when they were conquered after a fierce struggle.

It is probable that this charge grew out of the fierce persecution which was carried on by Gaiseric and his son against the Catholic Christians, and which is the darkest stain on their characters.

In his early poems may be found traces of the fierce struggle of his youth.

Nevin (q.v.), by its Neander-like view that Romanism and Protestantism were only stages in the divinely appointed development of the Christian Church, aroused fierce opposition in the Reformed Church and Schaff was characterized as "Puseyistic" and "semi-papistical"; in 1845 he was tried for heresy and found not guilty by the Synod.

But the prevailing impression we carry away after reading him is that in all his early satires he was animated by a sincere and manly detestation of the tyranny and cruelty, the debauchery and luxury, the levity and effeminacy, the crimes and frauds, which we know from other sources were then rife in Rome, and that a more serene wisdom and a happier frame of mind were attained by him when old age had somewhat allayed the fierce rage which vexed his manhood.

Regarded at first with distrust by Turkey, Russia and Austria, he succeeded in gaining general recognition in six months; but he had to contend for ten years with fierce party struggles between the Conservatives and the Liberals.

He was a fierce, violent man, a soldier and nothing else, whose piety was wholly militant.

It is my purpose also to give the names and number and times of those who through love of innovation have run into the greatest errors, and proclaiming themselves discoverers of knowledge, falsely so called, have like fierce wolves unmercifully devastated the flock of Christ.

Her fierce partisanship embittered her enemies, and the Yorkists did not hesitate to allege that her son was a bastard.

The Marian persecution was still fresh in men's minds, and the graphic narrative intensified in its numerous readers the fierce hatred of Spain and of the Inquisition which was one of the master passions of the reign.

Zola's object was a prosecution for libel, and a judicial inquiry into the whole affaire, and at the trial, which took place in Paris in February, a fierce flood of light was thrown on the case.

The proud, fierce queen and her people rose, and not alone.

But amid this somewhat fierce illumination he went forward steadily as a public lecturer.

Meantime the French and the Swiss engaged in an incredibly fierce struggle.

During the spring and summer months the prevalence of fierce cutting winds, which are shaped by the conformation of the valleys into blasts as through a funnel, following the strike of the valleys either up or down, makes travelling painful and existence in camp most unpleasant.

It is said to be naturally fierce, but when taken young is easily tamed and becomes gentle and playful.

Leopards, both spotted and black, are numerous and often of great size; hyaenas are found everywhere and are hardy and fierce; the lynx, wolf, wild dog and jackal are also common.

The first years of the 19th century were disturbed by fierce campaigns between Guxa, ras of Gondar, and Wolda Selassie, ras of Tigre, who were both striving for the crown of Guxa's master, the emperor Eguala Izeion.

The first assault thus made no impression, but a fierce hand-to-hand combat followed, in which the Hospitallers, who formed the rear of the Christian army, were hard pressed.

Swift, who was intimate with him, speaks of him as "an arrant knave"; but the dean may have been disappointed at being unmentioned in Rivers's will, for he made a fierce comment on the earl's bequests to his mistresses and his neglect of his friends.

Again, a peasant of Vinci having in his simplicity asked Ser Piero to get a picture painted for him on a wooden shield, the father is said to have laughingly handed on the commission to his son, who thereupon shut himself up with all the noxious insects and grotesque reptiles he could find, observed and drew and dissected them assiduously, and produced at last a picture of a dragon compounded of their various shapes and aspects, which was so fierce and so life-like as to terrify all who saw it.

The tribe of Levi had also been miraculously guided, from near Babylon, to Havila, where they were enclosed and protected by the mystic river Sambation or Sabbation, which on the Sabbath, though calm, was veiled in impenetrable mist, while on other days it ran with a fierce untraversable current of stones and sand.

The Cossacks of the Ukraine, who kept it, revolted against their Polish rulers about 1665, and sustained a fierce siege.

With his fierce hatred of what he recognized as injustice, it was impossible that he should not feel exasperated at the gross misgovernment of Ireland for the supposed benefit of England, the systematic exclusion of Irishmen from places of honour and profit, the spoliation of the country by absentee landlords, the deliberate discouragement of Irish trade and manufactures.

Few men of so much mental force have had so little genius for speculation, and he is constantly dominated by fierce instincts which he mistakes for reasons.

Manus O'Donnell, though a fierce warrior, was hospitable and generous to the poor and the Church.

The Chinese travellers, Fa Hien in the 5th century, and Hsiian Tsang in the 7th century, found the Buddhist religion prevailing throughout Bengal, but already in a fierce struggle with Hinduism - a struggle which ended about the 9th or 10th century in the general establishment of the latter faith.

On the 18th of September the Venezuelans, who had entered Colombia, were totally routed near La Hacha, and after fierce fighting the insurgents at Colon were compelled to surrender on the 29th of November.

The French entered the city in spite of the fierce resistance of the lazzaroni, who were devoted to the king, and with the aid of the nobles and bourgeois established the Parthenopaean Republic (January 1799).

Though their ancestors had been pirates as fierce as the vikings of the 9th century, and though some of their later kings had led naval armamentsEdwin had annexed for a moment Man and Anglesea, and Ecgfrith had cruelly ravaged part of Irelandyet by the year 800 they appear to have ceased to be a seafaring race.

But nobody was wronged; his creditors were all paid in time, and his hands were at least clean of traffic in reversions, clerkships, tellerships and all the rest of the rich sinecures which it was thought no shame in those days for the aristocracy of the land and the robe to wrangle for, and gorge themselves upon, with the fierce voracity of famishing wolves.

The humiliation of the king and queen after their capture at Varennes; the compulsory acceptance of the constitution; the plain incompetence of the new Legislative Assembly; the growing violence of the Parisian mob, and the ascendency of the Jacobins at the Common Hall; the fierce day of the 20th of June (1792), when the mob flooded the Tuileries, and the bloodier day of the 10th of August, when the Swiss guard was massacred and the royal family flung into prison; the murders in the prisons in September; the trial and execution of the king in January (1793); the proscription of the Girondins in June, the execution of the queen in October - if we realize the impression likely to be made upon the sober and homely English imagination by such a heightening of horror by horror, we may easily understand how people came to listen to Burke's voice as the voice of inspiration, and to look on his burning anger as the holy fervour of a prophet of the Lord.

After the death of Baumgarten (1757) Semler became the head of the theological faculty of his university, and the fierce opposition which his.

As a rule, they frequent barren rocky districts in large droves, and are exceedingly fierce and dangerous to approach.

The formation of the association at once provoked fierce and determined opposition on the part of the orthodox sections.

Slaveraiding continued ceaselessly; by 1446 the Portuguese had carried off nearly a thousand captives from the newly surveyed coasts; but between this time and the voyages of Cadamosto in 1455-1456, the prince altered his policy, forbade the kidnapping of the natives (which had brought about fierce reprisals, causing the death of Nuno Tristam in 1446, and of other pioneers in 1445, 1448, &c.), and endeavoured to promote their peaceful intercourse with his men.

The Geniti glinni and demna aeir were other fierce spirits who delighted in carnage.

In the Karst it is liable to sudden and violent changes, and especially to the bora, a fierce N.N.E.

On the other hand a string of islands extends along this coast, which offer many safe and easily accessible places of anchorage to ships during the fierce winter gales which rage in the Adriatic. The principal are Pago, Pasman, Isola Lunga and Isola Incoronata, Brazza, Lesina, Curzola and Meleda.

In almost all the gates of hell are guarded by fierce beasts, and in Ojibway, Finnish, Greek, Papuan and Japanese myths no mortal visitor may escape from Hades who has once tasted the food of the dead.

Under the protection of the Frankish king Dagobert (622-638), the Christian missionaries Amandus (St Amand) and Eligius (St Eloi) attempted the conversion of these Flemish Frisians, and their efforts were attended with a certain measure of success; but farther north the building of a church by Dagobert at Trajectum (Utrecht) at once aroused the fierce hostility of the heathen tribesmen of the Zuider Zee.

His satire is incisive, but in a scholarly and humanistic way; it does not appeal to popular passions with the fierce directness which enabled the master of Catholic satire, Thomas Murner, to inflict such telling blows.

On the 14th of July 1456 Hunyadi with his flotilla destroyed the Turkish fleet; on the 21st Szilagyi beat off a fierce assault, and the same day Hunyadi, taking advantage of the confusion of the Turks, pursued them into their camp, which he captured after a desperate encounter.

A fierce attack was also made on the rights of the cities.

Always a lover of dogs, Bennett could do anything with them; no dog, however fierce, resented his approach.

As you might expect in this context, this was a fast and highly athletic piece, ... just the fierce exhilaration of performance.

A fierce strike from Mel Clewlow hitting the backboard on 18 minutes.

Lovers became enemies, and enemies became fierce combatants.

With 3 mobile operators in Algeria, the market competition is extremely fierce.

He had completed it in 1634; but owing to the fierce opposition with which he had to contend, he was only able to print it at Paris in 1650, by aid of a son, who had turned Catholic. The various readings in the Old Testament text and the differences between the ancient versions and the Massoretic text convinced him that the idea of the integrity of the Hebrew text, as commonly held by Protestants, was untenable.

After the death of Francis I., his successor, Henry II., set himself even more strenuously to .extirpate heresy; a special branch of the parlement of Paris - the so-called Chambre ardente - for the trial of heresy cases party was established, and the fierce edict of Chateaubriand (June 1551) explicitly adopted many of the expedients of the papal inquisition.

Manuel, formerly a member of the Convention, to the Liberal paper, Courrier francais, where he became a member of the staff which carried on a fierce pen-and-ink warfare against the Restoration.

Apart from the natural fear that he would arouse prejudice in the English-speaking provinces, the second Riel rebellion was then still fresh in the public mind, and the fierce nationalist agitation which Kiel's execution had excited in Quebec had hardly subsided.

Even in the existing versions of the letters, translated from the lost originals and retranslated from this translation of a text which was probably destroyed in 1603 by order of King James on his accession to the English throne - even in these possibly disfigured versions, the fiery pathos of passion, the fierce and piteous fluctuations of spirit between love and hate, hope and rage and jealousy, have an eloquence apparently beyond the imitation or invention of art (see Casket Letters 1).

His father, Erik Johansson of Rydboholm, "a merry and jocose gentleman," but, like all the Swedish Vasas, liable to sudden fierce gusts of temper, was one of the senators who voted for the deposition of Archbishop Trolle, at the riksdag of 1517 (see Sweden, History), for which act of patriotism he lost his head.

This fact, together with the strong Italian bias of the Valois, serves to explain in some degree the reason why the Counter-Reformation entailed those fierce entangled civil wars, massacres of St Bartholomew, murders of the Guises, regicides, treasons and empoisonments that terminated with the compromise of Henry IV.

His eloquence was in turn majestic, fierce, playful, insinuating; his gesticulation natural, vivid, large, powerful.

St Bernard accused him of sharing the doctrines of Abelard (see Ep. 189, 195), and procured his condemnation by the council of Sens (I 140) at the same time as that of the great scholastic. This was perhaps no more than the outcome of the fierce polemical spirit of the abbot of Clairvaux, which led him to include all his adversaries under a single anathema.

It was formed by men who were fierce Puritan enthusiasts, and who for the very reason that the intensity of their religion separated them from the mass of their countrymen, had learnt to uphold with all the energy of zeal the doctrine that neither church nor state had a right to interfere with the forms of worship which each congregation might select for itself (see CONGREGATIONAL1SM and CROMWElL, OT.lvER).

But the movement against her came from Italy, and was resented by Philip and the Spanish authorities as undue interference; and after a fierce struggle, during which Teresa was two years under arrest at Toledo, the Carmelites were divided into two bodies in 1580, and the Descalzos obtained the right to elect their own provincial-generals (see Carmelites).

The tragic close of his career appeased for the moment the fierce hatred of politics, and his death was very generally deplored as a national calamity.'

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It 's a fierce, disjointed, rhapsodic piece.

Hours than you underground seemed a sir robert may fields and fierce.

All year round skittle leagues are the focus of fierce neighborhood rivalries in the long, thin alleys tacked to the back of pubs.

She stonewalls all attempts to find her identity -- and her fierce knife monolog raises more questions than it reveals.

They were unable, however, to subdue the fierce tribes in the north.

I have murky recollections of asphalt wastes patrolled by fierce, bulky boys smelling of penny chews and unwashed clothes.

If you are considering a career as a makeup artist, know the competition is fierce and the road can be a challenging one.

This will give off such a fierce look, Tyra Banks may come calling!

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They moved on to The Amazing Race 7 and proved to be fierce players.

Few knew from this early performance that he would go on to become such a fierce talent.

Mills proved that she could be a fierce competitor by staying on the show for many weeks before her eventual demise.

Competition is fierce and training is brutal, as the stars must learn tricky maneuvers and moves while pairing them with grace and eloquence which may or may not, come naturally.

The would-be mugger quickly set off on foot, hoping to outrun the now fit and fierce Osbourne.

So, those hoping to see it for their own eyes before they can believe are just going to have to go on blind faith that the end of the fierce rivalry has come.

Calm by nature, Great Pyrs have a fierce loyalty to their family making them very protective and excellent watch dogs.

The plant is best in moist, peaty soil, and in partial shade, fierce sun heat scorching both leaves and flowers.

Deciding which model is the best electric guitar is a matter of fierce debate.

Marilyn Monroe made the halter dress popular with her stunning white ensemble that is the inspiration for costumes like the one featured on Fierce Costumes but you don't have to opt for a costume to get a glamorous look.

Despite the doubtful conduct of part of the royal army, and the fierce resistance of the Germans and Irish, the rebel army was routed.

His selfishness, his cruelty, his ingratitude, his fierce hatred of criticism and opposition, his sensuality, had yet to be discovered by his subjects.

The latter project provoked fierce resistance; various risings were planned for the opening months of 1554, and Wyats nearly proved successful.

The whole of the upper and middle classes, with few exceptions, clung together in a fierce spirit of resistance; and the mass of the lower classes, especially in the country, were too well off to wish for change.

A fierce hatred of France and of all that attached itself to France became the predominating spirit of the nation.

His efforts to make Servian writers adopt his reformed alphabet, and accept the language of the common people as a literary language, met with fierce opposition, especially on the part of the clergy and friends of the artificial Slaveno-Servian literary language.

Of fierce a we've spoken to a square-foot ballroom.

Terri's entry was a superb dragon overlooking a sphere which understandably encouraged fierce bidding, finally going for £ 110.

Today, it is largely barren, hampered by swamps and salt lakes and prone to fierce blizzards.

He felt like a man holding a fierce bloodhound in leash.

The fierce Border Reivers (cattle rustlers) took refuge in the Beef Tub, hiding their stolen booty in its depths.

Will and I then set off to brave the Fierce Ladies, storm clouds gathered and a deluge poured down upon the mountains.

Troops then leaped onto the enemy ship and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat.

The recent report shows that, in a fierce global competition for the best talent, the UK is in danger of losing.

There was fierce opposition to the project from wildlife conservationists for two main reasons.

Within two weeks the fierce german counterattack had recovered all of the lost ground.

In print he sounded fierce; in life he was gentle, even courtly.

The sole surviving daguerreotype of Kirker reveals a dark-skinned man with a fierce countenance.

It drew forth fierce denunciations from members of the Forum Club, a Trotskyist political forum in Cape Town.

Steve Jones sent a fierce drive sliding across the slippery surface drenched by a downpour which keeper Lee Butler saved.

Two nights before, I dreamt of being confronted by a fierce, very awake dragon and it evoked terror in me.

In the midst of a fierce lightsaber duel with the Sith Lord, Luke faces a terrible truth about the Skywalker legacy.

What fierce exultation, sensual, almost erotic, in violating the virginity of a cave!

Competition in terms of overall national strength is becoming increasingly fierce.

If only... The weather was pretty fierce and we flirted with weather fronts in pursuit of the bowl.

There's a scene in it featuring a particularly fierce hurricane visiting destruction on a small town.

The headlong fortune of my rash captivity Strikes not so fierce a wound into my hopes As thy dear loss.

As a complete beginner the pace of learning was quite fierce during the first year.

My longing grows for you grows fierce, Breathlessly, I await you.

The battle at the front remained as fierce as ever, as was the battle for third.

He looked fierce, pushing his gray black eyebrows together over his nose.

When the market opens up to international players, competition gets fierce.

In a fierce firefight, the 5th Gurkhas had to be sent up to cover the retreat of the Indian battalions.

History suggests that Labor's promises evaporate like morning mist under the fierce glare of big business.

Attacked by some particularly fierce bees, he defended himself by throwing a hatchet which flew up to the Moon.

Kandinsky was driven by a fierce idealism and distinctly Slavic belief in the ' inner world ' of the soul.

Echoing his fierce esthetic independence, he did not conform to the image or lifestyle of his avant-garde colleagues.

He now turns his fierce intellect exclusively on this subject, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

Capable of fierce invective, his oratory is impersonal; passionate and emotional himself, his speeches are temperate.

Wireless hotspots are popping up at a fierce rate across the UK, allowing anyone with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop or PDA to get online.

While they are being pounded by a fierce storm, clutching the life raft, he is shooting at them like sitting ducks.

Louisa May Alcott Even amidst fierce flames The golden lotus can be planted From Sylvia Plath's grave Always keep Ithaca in your mind.

Each tightening of the law has met fierce opposition.

The largest legendary sort of fierce sea monsters down to the smallest marine organism, all made in one day.

Us lot at fierce panda aren't very good at anything.

Despite the often fierce polemics and talk of war, the wider Macedonian region has also remained peaceful throughout this period.

What do you say to a church that has had to face sustained pressure from fierce persecution?

Fierce fighting went on all evening with high explosive shells ripping into thick armor plating.

The invasion grabbed a small piece of land but the French put up fierce resistance and a full-scale invasion of southern France never occurred.

Two of the most gifted and talented people in all the land are also fierce rivals.

Another fierce struggle ensued between these long-time rivals, as the familiar storyline prevailed again.

There will be fierce local rivalry in the South West.

The men of Mawddwy were very fierce, and never scrupled to take anything they could set their hands on.

However, all that changed when the Wirral striker rode a few tackles and struck a fierce shot into the goal.

Try your hand at catching yellowtail snapper, grouper, porgy or any member of the fierce fighting jack family.

The morning promised sunshine but dealt us a fierce squall of wind and rain just as we unpacked the minibus.

As a youngster Federer had a fierce temper, breaking rackets regularly and making himself thoroughly unpopular.

This is no joke when the ants are fierce when provoked and have some of the most potent toxins around, wear your shoes.

With the advent of fall, there was fierce price competition among the stores selling fleece underwear.

The 14 track bilingual collection included fierce improvisations, sharp pop, and some seriously unhinged stuff.

The men on both sides were fierce, brave warriors.

In the face of a fierce Fellows bowling attack the rest of the Staff batsmen visibly wilted.

And He treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.

Of the church of St Lawrence part, including the tower, is Norman; the building was the scene of a fierce conflict between the royalist and parliamentary troops in 1643.

The neighbourhood of Tecuci was the scene of a fierce battle in 1476 between Stephen the Great and the Turks.

Mendoza, after some fierce encounters with the Indians, now proceeded up the Parana, and built a fort, which he called Corpus Christi, near the site of Cabot's former settlement of San Espiritu.

Cromwell followed through Yorkshire, and uniting with Lambert and Harrison at Evesham proceeded to attack the royalists at Worcester; where on the 3rd of September after a fierce struggle the great victory, "the crowning mercy" which terminated the Civil War, was obtained over Charles.

Examples of these plates are erected on the west coast of England, where in the winter fierce gales often occur; a pressure of 30 lb per sq.

Although he had in 1687 openly embraced the Roman Catholic faith, he hesitated to commit himself entirely to the acts of the fierce devotees who surrounded the king, whom he advised to reverse the arbitrary acts of the last year or two, and in October 1688 he was dismissed by James with the remark "I hope you will be more faithful to your next master than you have been to me."

The fierce struggle between autocratic tyranny and oligarchic disorder, which went on in intermittent fashion during the whole of his reign, cannot be here described in detail, but the chief incidents may be mentioned.

The archipelago lies in the track of the fierce hurricanes which occur usually in this period.

In 1512 (see below) the French army under Gaston de Foix fought a fierce battle with the Spanish, Venetian, and papal troops on the banks of the Ronco about two miles from Ravenna.

Men of all standards of integrity, they were exposed to external influences, but whether divided among themselves in their adherence to conflicting parties, or isolated in their fierce denunciation of contemporary abuses, they shared alike in the worship of Yahweh whose inspiration they claimed.

In 394, in consequence of the attack upon the doctrines of Origen made by Epiphanius of Salamis during a visit to Jerusalem, a fierce quarrel broke out, which found Rufinus and Jerome on different sides; and, though three years afterwards a formal reconciliation was brought about between Jerome and John, the breach between Jerome and Rufinus remained unhealed.

In 1890 he succeeded Count Herbert Bismarck as Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Caprivi chancellorship and continued to hold that office under Prince von Hohenlohe; but he had incurred the enmity of Prince Bismarck by refusing his advice when he first assumed office, and the result was a fierce press campaign against him which finally obliged him to speak out when he appeared as a witness at the trial of certain journalists in 1896 for lese-majeste.

But although, as we have said, in ordinary times there was no necessity for secrecy, yet when the peace of the Church was broken by the fierce and often protracted persecutions of the heathen emperors, it became essential to adopt precautions to conceal the entrance to the cemeteries, which became the temporary hiding-places of the Christian fugitives, and to baffle the search of their pursuers.

In a letter to the cardinal patriarch of Lisbon entitled (1850), he denounced the fanaticism and ignorance of the clergy in plain terms, and this provoked a fierce pamphlet war marked by much personal abuse.

In 1046, and again in 1061, two dangerous pagan risings shook the very foundations of the infant church and state; the western provinces were in constant danger from the attacks of the acquisitive emperors, and from the south and southeast two separate hordes of fierce barbarians (the Petchenegs in 1067-1068, and the Kumanians in 1071-1072) burst over the land.

The one was the intense bigotry and intolerant policy of Aurangzeb, which had alienated the Hindus and roused the fierce animosity of the haughty Rajputs.

The generous scorn and pathos of the historian acting on extraordinary gifts of imaginative insight and characterization, and the fierce indignation of the satirist finding its vent in exaggerating realism, doubtless to some extent warped their impressions; nevertheless their works are the last voices expressive of the freedom and manly virtue of the ancient world.

The Nemean lion is a symbol of the fierce and devastating summer heat that ravishes the land.

From chic tops to vivid handbags, it seems almost every garment and accessory out there has been touched in some way by a fierce animal print.

In Gauntlet Seven Sorrows you will spend the majority of your time in fierce combat.

Retro struggled, taking fierce heat from Nintendo when early results didn't meet the home office's expectations.

Peter Jackson's King Kong game will take you on an adventure to Skull Island, where your main weapon is a primitive spear, and fierce opponents like King Kong along with multiple dinosaurs that attack you at every turn.

Get ready to lock swords and dodge shurikens in a fierce battle with evil.

The Xbox 360 is the only currently available "next-generation" machine right now, but with the Nintendo Revolution not far off, the competition will quickly become quite fierce.

Get out of the way, using a fierce attack when Gollum appears to be off-balance.

Use the fierce attack (triangle) to break the shields of armored enemies.

Fortunately, the competition is fierce, so you can find a good cell phone plan deal by searching and comparing the cell phone calling plans offered by different companies.

Competition in the wireless industry can be incredibly fierce and Verizon's introduction of Android smartphones represented a huge boon for the company.

Whether people are gun collectors, hunters, or fierce gun control advocates, they need to ensure their families' safety by talking with their children about the potential dangers of guns and what to do if one is found.

They exhibit a fierce loyalty to other gang members and are highly resistant to change, even after arrest and detention for gang-related crimes.

While the competition itself is fierce, it also ends up being a celebration of dance at all levels.

The dance itself is vibrant, passionate, fierce, and beautifully shot in the video.

This does not mean that the dance group is not that good; it means that the show had so many talented individuals and groups performing that the competition was fierce.

Some ladies opt for a push away bang that softly sweeps the jaw line, while others seek a fierce straight bang that immediately draws sexy attention to the eyes.

Couture designers such as Chanel, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent often rely on chic straight locks to fierce up their seasonal runway displays.

Do you have a great smile or fierce cheekbones?

The Mohawk Warriors were fierce and looked even tougher with this unique look.

Getting the job will be a fierce competition, and opportunities and earnings will, of course, be reflected by economics and consumer preferences.

Competition for positions with the company is fierce, and failing to follow instructions precisely will mean that an individual's application will not be considered.

Competition for available positions with the government is fierce, but qualified individuals should still submit an application.

Guys can buy European tailored leopard print swim trunks that will add some fierce style to their swimwear.

Agents will lobby the magazine to have their top supermodels included in the next issue, and with so many beautiful women, the competition is fierce.

Are you someone who enjoys a fierce game of volleyball, or someone who prefers to sun and read a good book?

To be sure, the competition is something fierce at many of these contests, and a sheer style might be just the look you need to wow those discerning judges.

To be sure, these bikinis are scant, and it takes a woman with a fierce pride in her shape to strut this look comfortably.

Although they are not as fierce as the Imaginext Adventures Deluxe Dragon, they have powers and features that make them worthy companions.

Where did this company come from, and how does it stack up against the competition in such a fierce field as health and sports supplements?

Legends say that the Aztecs carried only one tablespoon of seeds per person during long marches, but that was enough to sustain their fierce warriors.

Gold is striking and can take on a fierce, edgy stance, but it can also be diminutive, innocent and even sweet.

Moulinex's problems compounded when competition in the small kitchen appliance market became fierce worldwide and their products were largely deemed inferior in construction and performance.

Torrential downpours, heavy snowstorms and fierce winds are hard to capture in real time, but they're easy to simulate on the big screen.

While hunting, the huntsman encountered a fierce wolf who leaped at the hunter's throat.

Telephone companies realize that the competition is fierce for keeping your service.

Christian had a very colorful attitude and often peppered his interviews with phrases that have since become mainstream slang, such as saying that someone looks "fierce" or "a hot mess."

Competition is fierce at reality show casting, and the more popular the show, the more cut throat the competition.

The competition to land a spot on the show is fierce, but there are things you can do to increase your chances of surviving the cuts.

I want to continue down that road and inspire women to be intelligent and fierce.

Despite the obvious twists, Half Blood Prince delivers a shocking blow to the fate of Harry Potter and Rowling's conclusion to his story in book seven will no doubt be a fierce battle between good and evil.

Because of the wormhole, the alpha quadrant is in danger of these fierce dictators.

She has a reputation for a short temper and a fierce hatred of Cardassians, though she keeps her anger in check and always performs her duties.

She grew up with Cardassian rule and developed a fierce hatred of their occupation and race.

It allows viewers to actually relate to the fierce biomechanical warriors in a human way.

Godzilla started out as a fierce reptilian dinosaur monster that Toho Studios unleashed on Tokyo in the first movie, Godzilla, King of the Monsters.

Any time a team changes their uniform they are walking a fine line between a fan's desire for something new and the fierce loyalty that the game inspires.

Images - Competition is fierce in the web 2.0 world and you need a website that has professional, clean, and non-distracting graphics.

Now, though, the competition for your customer's eyeballs from San Francisco to New York City and across the Atlantic or Pacific is fierce.

The thick log walls insulated them from some of the noise, but the storm was fierce.

I want you to miss me something fierce.

The sea-coast is exposed to the fierce bora, or north wind, during the spring.

The battle over these proposals was long and fierce.

It is fallen man whom he pursues with his fierce scorn; his view of man's nature - intellect as well as character - is to be read in the light of his unflinching Augustinianism.

The fierce family feud only terminated when Matthew was murdered by agents of Shane in 1J58; Conn dying about a year later.

In violation of the Law he married a brother's widow, who had already borne children, and in general he showed himself so fierce and tyrannical that the Jews joined with the Samaritans to accuse him before the emperor.

The attacks on Origen, which had begun in his lifetime, did not cease for centuries, and only subsided during the time of the fierce Arian controversy.

The Obligatory Civil Marriage Bill, the State Registries Bill and the Religion of Children of Mixed Marriages Bill, were finally adopted on the 21st of June 1894, after fierce debates and a ministerial interregnum of ten days (June 10-20); but on the 25th of December, Wekerle, who no longer possessed the king's confidence,' resigned a second time, and was succeeded by Baron Dersb (Desiderius) Banffy.

When Rabbula, the fierce anti-Nestorian and friend of Cyril, died in 435, he was succeeded in the bishopric by Ibas, who as head of the famous " Persian Book of Chastity, par.

Appointed secretary to Garibaldi, Crispi secured the resignation of Depretis, whom Garibaldi had appointed pro-dictator, and would have continued his fierce opposition to Cavour at Naples, where he had been placed by Garibaldi in the foreign office, had not the advent of the Italian regular troops and the annexation of the Two Sicilies to Italy brought about Garibaldi's withdrawal to Caprera and Crispi's own resignation.

There was a fierce 1 The laws of Hiero are often mentioned with approval in Cicero's speeches against Verres.

The Saxons had become law-abiding, and the fierce Danes treated them in the same way as in former days they had treated the Britons.

Such was the terror inspired by these fierce warriors that many of the tribes, such as the Wa-Nindi of Mozambique, adopted the name of their conquerors or oppressors.

First he swept down on the Bani Hanifa in Yemama, who with their rival prophet Mosailama (Mosailima) and 40,000 men were in arms. The battle of Yemama (633) was fierce and decisive.

The Kharijites who had opposed 'Ali on the ground that he had no right to allow the appeal to arbitration, were defeated at Nahrawan or Nahrwan (658), but those who escaped became fierce propagandists against the Koreish, some claiming that the caliph should be chosen by the Faithful from any tribe of the Arabs, some that there should be no caliph at all, that God alone was their ruler and that the government should be carried on by a council.

Before the onset of those fierce invaders the precarious suzerainty of the khakan broke up. By calling in the Uzes, the Khazars did indeed dislodge the Petchenegs from the position they had seized in the heart of the kingdom between the Volga and the Don, but only to drive them inwards to the Dnieper.

Little is known of its habits in a wild state, beyond the fact that it is a forest-dweller, active in movement and fierce in disposition.

The CornLaw Rhymes (3rd ed., 1831), inspired by a fierce hatred of injustice, are vigorous, simple and full of vivid description.

Durga is pictured, ill spite of her fierce nature, with a gentle face.

So fierce was the antagonism that the military authorities refused to permit operations of survey in the southern suburb of Tokyo, and the road had to be laid on an embankment constructed in the sea.

During his whole reign (1751-1771) Adolphus Frederick was little more than a state decoration, the real power being lodged in the hands of an omnipotent riksdag, distracted by fierce party strife.

They are said to be of a fierce disposition, feeding chiefly on birds.

His marriage with the fierce witch-woman, Olympias, daughter of the Epirote king, falls in this period, and in 356 she bore him his greater son, Alexander.

After a fierce and stubborn struggle in which the Germans behaved with great valour, the Royalists were completely victorious, though they left 2000 men on the field; Lincoln, Schwartz and Fitzgerald with 4000 of their followers were killed, and Lovell and Broughton disappeared never to be heard of again.

The confusion in and around St Privat, where troops from four several corps were all intermingled, became so extreme that no further infantry-advance could be attempted; so under cover of the fierce artillery duel the remnants of the unfortunate 6th corps drifted away towards Metz down the many ravines leading into the river valley.

During the 18th and 19th, the attacks of the English though fierce were partial, and met with no great success.

The fighting was very fierce.