How To Use Fierce In A Sentence
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They drew swords, and fought fiercely, cussing and insulting each other as swiftly as they threw blows.
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Where are their fiercest critics when humane help is wanted?
The Sun
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Balboa had a reputation as a fierce and quarrelsome young man.
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The sun beat down with fierce intensity.
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He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics.
The Harvard Crimson :: News
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He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
CHAPTER XV
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Anti-monarchist rebels bombed the police base a, triggering a fierce exchange of fire.
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I doubt that Michelle Obama was surprised or dismayed by the boos at the Nascar rally: it's not surprising that the national doubtfulness about first ladies and the strong, accomplished women who are coming to hold the role would emerge in boos from some of the Obama administration's fiercest opponents.
Michelle Obama's Nascar boos | Kay Dilday
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Its plans are likely to be fiercely opposed by residents, conservation groups and some environmentalists concerned at the impact on the landscape.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
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The famous boxer killed a fierce wolf with his bare hands.
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Is he always a fierce competitor?
The Sun
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His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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Its choreography is dense with invention, its dancers project a fine fierce physicality and an alert, emotional presence.
Stephen Petronio Company – review
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She did not know that this Congo River was the home of the Crocodile, the biggest, fiercest, scaliest, hungriest Crocodile in all Africa.
The Curious Book of Birds
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Yet we make no apology for fighting for our independence as fiercely as we fight in our journalism to expose wrongdoing and hold the powerful to account.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dick Brewer had taken refuge behind a thirty-inch sawlog near the mill, just one hundred and forty steps from the window near which this fierce little fighting man was lying, wounded to death.
The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado
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I often say gorillas are like that: big and look very fierce and very strong but actually are quite gentle and sensitive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The air was choked with smoke and fury, the noise deafening, the attacking fierce.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their trust was repaid with fierce loyalty.
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In the testing field, Guo Jingjing did not have in athletic field fierceness, opens cautiously.
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It showed an old Sikh warrior on a pony, glaring at the camera fiercely, a huge spear in his hand.
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The 15 spaces have only their fierce commitment to individuality (and, of course, their amenities) in common, ranging in style from slick minimalism to full-on kitsch.
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A bout of fierce fighting gave the rest of the English fleet enough time to come to the rescue and begin attacking the convoy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Again, the music's mood is ritualistic and almost fiercely celebratory.
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The conflict was very fierce, and took place when the captain and I were at the xebeque, and before we could separate them four of them had fallen; two were killed, and the other two badly wounded.
The Privateersman
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The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market.
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Luke is placed in an isolated environment with strict rules, guards, and regimentation and his fiercely individualistic spirit immediately clashes.
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They will always be fiercely competitive up front and totally committed in defence.
The Sun
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He backed his little-known horses in fierce ante-post bets.
The Sun
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She won't be hyped, marketed, trendified, commodified, put in a box - and even though she probably loathes sound-bites as well, she has a way with words when describing her fierce individualism.
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The trust obtained planning permission for the pay and display equipment despite fierce objections to the scheme by councillors.
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Others dodge flying debris kicked up by fierce storm gusts.
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Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother.
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Fierce rivalries have traditionally fragmented the region.
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One minute they were sworn enemies, the next they were clinging together in fierce mutual desire.
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The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
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His fierce loyalty to his lead actor is understandable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The victim then approaches the youth and throws a fierce right-hand jab, punching him on the chin and knocking him unconscious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies.
Our Village
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They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow.
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The Prime Minister's fierce speech set the tone for the rest of the conference.
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a great artiste's rendering of that story of fierce passion and aching desire so brilliantly enacted under the white sunbeat of a country of cloudless skies.
Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West
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The flames were already licking through the panels with a fierce urgency that was terrifying to see.
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At the end of the millennial reign, Satan will be loosed and a massive rebellion against the kingdom and a fierce assault against Christ and His saints will occur.
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There is something about very small and very fierce that always gets to people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the
Letter 138
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It is astonishing to see these tiny birds engaged in such a fierce aerial battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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His roots may be privileged ones, but his work ethic is fierce and focused, a powerful example for young and aspirant artists.
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Remember, too, that he is hardly ever a monopolist: he works in fierce competition with fellow scalpers.
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After a fierce struggle, he got a beat on his opponent.
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The fierce battle for Travnik was now over, the sources said.
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And here the conquered men of Ind, swarthy horsemen and sword wielders, fiercely barbaric, blazing in crimson and scarlet, Sikhs, Rajputs, Burmese, province by province, and caste by caste.
CORONATION DAY
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Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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Competition has been fierce, with 243 writers submitting their works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jessica is also a Midnighter with powers that are apparently so fierce, the darklings decide to emerge from the outer badlands and go after her.
REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
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Jacki's face was so fierce, her voice husky with a tensile fear so pure that he answered her immediately.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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This one hatched faster than the first, fierce little claws punching through the fragile shell and scrabbling to get free.
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Who was that fierce old lady?
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He heard footsteps approaching, and drove his spurs so fiercely into the roan as to force a surprised groan from the animal as it leaped forward.
War
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The fiercest opposition she faced came from battling a runny nose that left her sounding full of cold.
The Sun
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hits is hitting, felt that the head fierce ache, the skin pruritus hard to endure and so on untoward effect ..." Dr. Yang has opened some analgetic pill to her.
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She was goaded on by fierce ambition.
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The army was driven off by the fierce attacks of the rebels.
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I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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The scanty grasses were long ago turned into sun-cured hay by the fierce summer heats.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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A third of the world's arctic skuas, big fierce birds nicknamed Bonxies, nest on the great hills of the island.
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I don't need a cat-eye to feel fierce.
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They were wild people, fierce, apt to fight singly, if not as a tribe.
HAMMERFALL
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The elegant gentleman before us had acquired a certain fierceness.
The Filigree Ball
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While such a sophisticated politician was well aware of the pitfalls involved in fiercely defending his policies and sticking unswervingly to his principles, with hindsight this decision can be seen as fatally flawed.
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This is a great time for laying the foundations for winter, reconditioning your skin after months of switching between sun and fierce air-con and generally getting ready to glow when the Christmas invitations start rolling in from November onwards.
Indulge your skin this winter
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This was as fiercely contested a match as any international could be.
The Sun
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I often say gorillas are like that: big and look very fierce and very strong but actually are quite gentle and sensitive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet.
Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
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Jamaica and Puerto Rico, immediate neighbors of the Caribs, were almost as fierce as the latter, and probably as anthropophagous.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its enormous size.
Les Miserables
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They're fiercely varietal: just one variety in each wine and as for the sheer concentration of fruit and perfume - wow!
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The promotion of women ran into fierce resistance, which led to persistent and quite unacceptable forms of discrimination.
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Growing unease at the prospect of an election is causing fierce arguments within the party.
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Who of that fierce company brought the trooper to his end we never knew, but when M'Iver and I got down to the level he was dead as knives could make him, and his horse, more mad than ever, was disappearing over a mossy moor with a sky-blue lochan in the midst of it.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Beneath that calm exterior, he has a fierce will to win.
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Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
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Fierce storms have been hampering rescue efforts and there is now little chance of finding more survivors.
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Neither accelerator nor brake is fierce, the steering is accurate but requires no great effort.
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The company, which has been based in Barlby Road, Selby, for almost 80 years, blames lack of demand for oilseed and a fiercely competitive market.
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Highland Territorial battalions crossed the Grand Ravine and entered Flesquieres, where fierce fighting took place.
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His deft movement to the right to push clear the fiercely driven shot was goal keeping of the highest standard.
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The house's low roof pitch and deep overhangs shield it from the fierce elements of salt, rain, and wind.
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Their countenances seemed fiercely writhen into the wildest expression of pride, hate, and a desperate purpose of fighting to the very last.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Overseen by evangelist monks Charlemagne's conquering Franks meet fierce resistance from Saxon tribesmen.
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The elderly male (for anthropoids, like anthropoi, wax fierce and surly with increasing years) will fight, but only from fear, when suddenly startled, or with rage when slightly wounded.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Oft was the dragon above, and eftsoons beneath; nevertheless at the end high he gan rise, and he flew down right with fierce assault, and the bear he smote, so that he fell to the earth; and he there the bear slew, and limbmeal him tore.
Roman de Brut. English
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They exchanged banter over their desks, argued about clients and enlivened their team meetings with fierce exchanges.
Times, Sunday Times
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We chose the name Beelzebub to reflect the dark 'diabolic' coloration of the new species and its fierce protective behavior in the field," said Gabor Csorba of the Hungarian Natural History Museum.
Wired Top Stories
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The company has come under fierce attack for its decision to close the factory.
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There was some fierce fighting.
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His fierceness was the family joke when Hilda was small she used to say, "Now, get mad, father, and make little Hilda laugh!
The Fortune Hunter
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Many local councils have been slow to establish more suitable sites - often because of fierce opposition from local people.
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The plans have already come in for fierce criticism in many quarters of the country.
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She zipped her jeans in a fierce movement, took dark glasses, cigarettes, keys, shoes.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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There will be fierce competition among the top seeds over two tough days of rallying to decide the outcome of this most prestigious of motorsport events.
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Something the Italian said obviously hit a raw nerve with Zidane as he stopped , walked back towards him and landed a fierce butt on his chest about 10 minutes before the end of extra - time.
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Opposition is most fierce in states such as California that have already found ways to curb the cost of treating Medicaid patients.
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My passion for my mistress had something fierce about it, for all my life had been severely monachal.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Rather call the dusky and dark-haired Twilight, whose pensive face is limned against the western hills, by the name of that fierce and fervid Noon that stands erect under the hot zenith, instinct with the red blood of a thousand summers, casting her glittering tresses abroad upon the south-wind, and holding in her hands the all-unfolded rose of life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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The women's game will improve once some fierce rivalries emerge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Opponents fiercely whittle down lap times in pursuit of the lead, but sometimes it is the smartest - not the fastest - racers who win the race.
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I noticed that land was only about one hundred yards away, but there was a fierce battle being fought.
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But almost always from both there is evidence that fiercely alert predatory instinct is allied with genuine virtuosity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blue flames that Mr. Astor and I noticed came from the fierce burning of this arseniuretted hydrogen as it hissed from oil vents in the trenches under the drive of powerful pumps.
The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory
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And when this fierce way prevails, it masters and subdues all other ways and works; for it wills to be wayless, that is, without manner.
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
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The host was politically incorrect, chain-smoking, and fiercely monarchist.
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At the committee meeting the experts laid into each other fiercely.
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It's always fierce and a game with that bit of edge to it.
The Sun
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A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.
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For person and complexion they haue broade and flatte visages, of a tanned colour into yellowe and blacke, fierce and cruell lookes, thinne haired vpon the upper lippe, and pitte of the chinne, light and nimble bodied, with short legges, as if they were made naturally for horsemen: whereto they practise themselues from their childhood, seldome going afoot about anie businesse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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We seem to be hard-wired into receiving streaming images from TV, film, print and our social media, fiercely flashing before us at strobe-light speed, yet never quite lingering long enough for us to take a really deep look into the energetics behind the images.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity
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I sat back on my haunches, breathing heavily, and casting what I could only imagine to be the fiercest glower of animosity I'd ever bestowed upon another human being.
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The ball spun for the Ecuadorean and he banged in a fierce shot which the goalkeeper could only palm away.
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Though they were now only 65 air miles from their destination, the great salt lake lay more than 200 miles down the meandering river, through bands of belligerent nomads, wild rapids and a sun that threatened to "carbonize those who should be unprotected from its fierceness.
Old Salt, Dead Sea
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he male mute swan, known as the cob, fiercely defends the territory that he and his mate, the pen, share.
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They will clash on the track because they are such fierce competitors and both fighting hard for World Championship glory.
The Sun
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As well as bringing milder winters and hotter summers, warmer weather could trigger more rain, fiercer winds and more frequent storms.
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This meeting with his oldest and fiercest foe seems to have injected adrenaline into his veins.
Times, Sunday Times
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That fierce, murderous eloquence does make me wonder whether the rhetoric of modern Islamists is comparable.
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the fierce
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Angela delivers a dressing-down that is fierce but remarkably subtle.
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As long as these firms consisted of small, family-owned, patriarchally run units, and the price competition was fierce, their activities remained relatively uninteresting.
The Prize in Economics 1978 - Presentation Speech
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Competition from abroad became fiercer in the 1990s.
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Foreheads, -- Oh, deign outspeak fierce wrath from bosom outbreathing,
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
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A combination of superior tactics, better use of material, and fierce military and partisan fighting led to Soviet victory.
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The monarchists are a small fringe group who quarrel fiercely among themselves.
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The battle along the M4 motorway corridor between Reading and Swindon was particularly fierce.
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Tongans were fierce warriors and skilled navigators whose outrigger canoes could carry up to two hundred people.
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The consortium won a fierce takeover battle for the engineering group.
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The fierce wind raved itself out.
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With the quick march of life rhythm, people travel frequently, so transportation market competes fiercely.
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Two of his fierce long range strikes almost succeeded in breaking the deadlock.
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This cash injection has been won against fierce competition from other car plants worldwide.
The Sun
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There followed a very fierce dispute between the Ancients and the Moderns.
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He's a fiercely loyal person to his family and friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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This forced, violent, alembicated style is most abhorrent to me; it can’t be helped; the note was struck years ago on the Janet Nicoll, and has to be maintained somehow; and I can only hope the intrinsic horror and pathos, and a kind of fierce glow of colour there is to it, and the surely remarkable wealth of striking incident, may guide our little shallop into port.
Vailima Letters
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It is this submerged reef that causes fierce surges of current in the tide races in the area.
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The book is a riveting character study of a fiercely intelligent and insular man coming to terms with his sexuality.
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Wood attacked strongly with some fierce pulls and hooks.
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Though very fierce outwardly, the dog was well - tamed.
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'If I slay thee, thou hireling dog, as I have often slain thy clodpated countrymen in other days,' and the Frenchman laughed fiercely, 'by St. Denis!
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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It's all a testament to the spendy tastes and fiercely pro-urban character of the people who live in this part of town.
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So it came as no surprise when meteorologists determined late Friday that the storm that barreled across a large swath of Brooklyn and Queens a day earlier spawned two tornadoes and a fierce macroburst with wind speeds up to 125 mph.
Authorities: 2 Tornadoes Struck NYC During Storm
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The driving rain was almost sleet, the wind was fierce and the ground sodden.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Powell, 44, came in for fierce criticism when he replaced Terry Wogan with the ￡10 million drama.
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The practice of infanticide, for selfish reasons, was, as we shall see in later chapters, horribly prevalent among many of the lower races, and even where the young were tenderly reared, the feeling toward them was hardly what we call affection -- a conscious, enduring devotion -- but a sort of animal instinct which is shared by tigers and other fierce and cruel animals, and which endures but a short time.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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This was as fiercely contested a match as any international could be.
The Sun
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+ The second sort (odium inimicitiae, or hostility) aims directly at the person, indulges a propensity to see what is evil and unlovable in him, feels a fierce satisfaction at anything tending to his discredit, and is keenly desirous that his lot may be an unmixedly hard one, either in general or in this or that specified way.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Despite his frequently tense relations with his superiors, he engendered fierce loyalty among many of his subordinates.
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Suddenly, and as it were without warning, we are confronted by a fierce and warlike nation, for whom it is a paramount moral obligation to refrain from the participatory heathen cults by which they were surrounded on all sides; for whom moreover precisely that moral obligation is conceived as the very foundation of the race, the very marrow of its being.
Sources of Theology in Job « Unknowing
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At daybreak the sun rose, bringing with it all the mutable, fierce, subtle colors of the world, restored, brought back to life, reborn.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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After fierce fighting, C Troop was nearly destroyed.
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The fight between the boys had become so fierce that the teacher had to come out to pour oil on troubled waters.
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However, they misread the temper of the dales, for a dalesman will fight fiercely for his freedom.
The Crystal Gryphon
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Competition was fierce, with a dead heat in one of the races .
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At once I stood up to move closer to him, but he said fiercely: `No, don't slobber over me!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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They are fiercely competitive and offer lower prices year after year.
The Sun
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Especially when I read of the adventures of Russian and Polish exiles in Siberia -- men of aristocratic lineage wandering amid snow and arctic cold, sleeping on rocks or in hollow trees, and holding their own, empty-handed, against hunger and frost and their fiercer brute embodiments do I recognize a hardihood and a ferity whose wet-nurse, ages back, may well have been this gray slut of the woods.
Winter Sunshine
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They arrived by coach with the air of a defiant underdog away team, and they maintain fierce internal discipline.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were fierce attacks on the BBC for alleged political bias.
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Prospector George Tannihill christened it in 1866 as a mining district, saying he chose the name to commemorate the fierce battle he and twenty-three settlers led by a Captain Pierson had heroically won against marauding Indians there in 1857.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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There's Valerie, looking like a fierce little referee in a striped tank; Kristin, still looking sex-starved in a leather dress and bedhead; and Nicholas, looking like Ellen DeGeneres with a five o'clock shadow!
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap
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There was little frolic left in them when night came; they were short-spoken, prone to grow fierce over trifles.
The Desert Valley
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Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory.
Black Out by Lisa Unger: Book summary
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A note from the other world will strike upon the chord of my being, and the spirit which has been dozing within me awakens and fiercely beats at its bars, demanding some nobler thought, some higher aspiration, some wider action, a more saturnalian pleasure, something more than the peasant life can ever yield.
My Brilliant Career
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The fire by this time had conquered all before it, and at seven o'clock in the morning the roof fell in with a terrible crash, shooting up into the sky fierce tongues of fire and myriads of burning sparks.
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It's such a fiercely unique movie, uncompromising in its visual excitement, that we're inclined to overlook the slightly dopey plot and shaky acting.
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The wind grew fiercer, sending leaves and twigs whirling around in the air.
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Fierce Eyes came and pushed her aside.
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He steamrollered the bill through Parliament against fierce opposition.
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She was on the back, the pain so fierce that she moaned.
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In other statements read to the court, neighbours described how they tried to get into the house to pull the children out, but were beaten back by the dense smoke and fierce heat.
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The latter was fiercely jealous, and if Parsons showed obvious affection toward someone, Patsy howled as though she were calling upon all her lupine ancestors to come forth and carry off the intruder.
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And in Delia's there will reverberate till death that wail of a fierce and childless woman -- that last cry of nature in one who had defied nature -- of womanhood in one who had renounced the ways of womanhood: "_the child -- the child_!
Delia Blanchflower
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Yet her fierce, unplucked brows guarded surprisingly delicate eyelashes.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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The bill was passed despite fierce opposition.
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She gave me a fierce glare.
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It bore no resemblance to any corvid that had ever lived, but somehow the lines managed to convey an expression of fierce intelligence.
Blood Lite II: Overbite
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She was young, too, though no one guessed it; so the gnawing was the fiercer.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
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Hurtling through the air, it seemed, with a sense of fierce speed, the varied clangors of the train, the ringing of the rails, the frequent hoarse blasts of the whistle, the jangling of the metallic fixtures, the jarring of the window-panes, all were keenly differentiated by her exacerbated and sensitive perceptions, and each had its own peculiar irritation.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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In a fiercely tribal society, with traditions of internecine warfare that lasted at least until ten years ago, defensible towns and houses were vital.
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He stole the tenderness in her lips with fierce lust, not even closing the door before he began clawing at his belt.
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The noise was incessant and disturbing and the battle was fierce.
The Sun
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The woman is a predatory siren whose fierce, angular movements are accompanied by the creaks and grinds of unoiled door hinges.
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Though very fierce outwardly, the dog was well - tamed.
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We donned the body armour and fierce helmets for an hour's tuition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Competition is also fierce in this segment, meaning that if you haggle hard with a dealer you will be more likely to get a discount.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fierce: The plan gives advocate lying cany bed is done soft soft large cushion, brush stair armrest into gray next, present ivory not classics is dirty, color and all round not harmonious also.
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Although her economical style can sacrifice immediacy and intimacy, this is a fiercely indignant and justly cynical work.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a environment of cut-throat pricing and fierce editorial battles, the average daily sale has only dropped by less than 250,000 on the same time last year.
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Even as a fierce blizzard looms on the horizon, she finds herself with more than just a truant husband on her hands.
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I could scarcely keep from laughing in his face, the whole thing was so ludicrous; but I managed to look my haughtiest, and sternest, and fiercest, while I superintended the deck-cleansing.
CHAPTER XLV
