How To Use Fiery In A Sentence

For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
This past week in the forest park, the fiery foliage set against cobalt skies was a sight to behold.
Others in his career had already glimpsed his fiery temper. Times, Sunday Times
Fiery dishes such as curry fuel mouth heat receptors. The Sun
He was also something of a fiery personality, who liked to argue with referees, opponents and managers alike. Calcio: A History of Italian Football

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Fiery red blossoms float amongst olive green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon.
He pictured it as a liquid fiery ball, constantly dripping flames into no particular direction due to lack of gravity.
So if anyone tries to tell you how to behave, your hackles will rise and the fiery side of your nature will come to the fore. The Sun
The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
She had a fiery temper and was sometimes worse than Elaine.
His fiery temper was liable to overspill. Times, Sunday Times
But if it gets fiery and feisty, then we have players here who can handle themselves. The Sun
Workers spent their cheques on fiery spirits or shypoo.
In the Western United States, it's likely to be a hot, fiery summer.
The bright-hammered melody of the flat-crank 4.5-liter V8, the fiery spall of the overrun note, the tach-rapping flexibility of the 9,000-rpm engine as you gear-bang the seven-speed dual clutch tranny—all of that is at a slight remove in the fixed-roof car. Ferrari 458 Italia Loses Its Top, Gains Hugely
Then in English she burst into a fiery political speech.
Those who sleep at all dream of fiery, burning places where eyes smart and breath inflames the lungs.
After dark he will not move a yard from his camp without a flaring torch of paper bark, a fiery aspersorium for the scaring of the "debil-debil. Confessions of a Beachcomber
An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a U.N. school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions. Coming Soon? Hamas' Media Massacre
A large terracotta pot planted with Busy Lizzie provides a fiery bright red display.
And the rising sun met the falling star and flashed into coruscant life, a roaring tide of fiery might that batted away cold beams and sent an incandescent lance of godly light in retaliation.
This week's pompous, poncey, high-handed antics could pique the infamous Tauran temper, impelling you to channel that feisty, fiery Hawaiian volcano deity Pele, who loves to erupt in Vesuvian pyrotechnics.
He was an excellent critic and a fiery polemicist.
The fiery right-wing leader toned down his militant statements after the meeting.
Apparently the play is about ‘a fiery passionate Southern girl’ and her ‘stormy relationship’ with a man.
For a second both of the women are caught in the glow from the lighter's fiery tip. Castanets '84
'Up wi' him! 'cried Madge wi' the Fiery Face, who had just been loosed from the 'jougs,' wherein she had been confined for 'kenspeckle incontinence.' Border Ghost Stories
As if to symbolize this state of things, the "fancy piece" astern comprised, among numerous other carved decorations, a cross and a miter; while forward, on the bows, was a sort of devil for a figure-head -- a dragon-shaped creature, with a fiery red mouth, and a switchy-looking tail. Redburn. His First Voyage
The drink was the same fiery distillation that was known as claret, sherry, brandy, rum, whisky, or whatever else a role might call for. Hokas Pokas
Small wonder that, mounted on her fiery little mustang, untrammeled by her short gray riding-habit, free as the wind itself that blew through the folds of her flannel blouse, with her brown hair half-loosed beneath her slouched felt hat, she seemed to Dick a more beautiful and womanly figure than the stiff buckramed simulation of man's angularity and precision he had seen in the parks. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
It's quite fiery stuff with pepper, spices and some tannic activity but best of all, it's over-brimming with summer fruit flavours.
Most Pixar films, even the emotionally-devastating Toy Story 3, went out with G ratings, but Bolt went out with a PG for basically having a (fantastic) curtain-raiser opening action sequence that was quickly revealed to be fake and for a climactic moment of fiery peril for the lead characters. Scott Mendelson: What Does a Cartoon Have to Do to Get a 'G' These Days?
A helicopter crashed in a fiery explosion in Vallejo.
When it became clear that Frey had lied, she invited him back on her show and in what was riveting, headline-making television, she came after him with a fiery vengeance that she later regretted - so much so that, years later, in 2008, she called Frey to apologize. Now it's Oprah's moment
How montbretia, a native of the South Africa veld, became established – miles from the nearest garden – is a mystery, but its orange blooms, as incandescent as coal in a furnace, added a fiery hue to a hot afternoon. Country diary: Durham coast
To honor the festival's origins, locals concoct fiery brews, which they carry in flasks for warming nips.
Bo.lan Duangporn 'Bo' Songvisava and Dylan Jones' seven-course degustation menu changes regularly, but you can expect something like gaeng ki lek a northern Thai curry dish, along with a fiery representative from the far south. Eating in Southeast Asia
He was broken early due to his fiery nature, which showed more often than not.
For hundreds of years, firearms depended upon fiery sparks from the forced impact of flint upon steel.
While Hannah was using a blanket to swat out flames on the ladder below the top of the cupola — waving away helpful servitors and even a voynix that had come in close to protect the humans from harm — Harman and two others had finished poking inside the fiery furnace and had just opened a “taphole,” allowing what looked to be yellow lava to flow down wooden troughs to the beach. Ilium
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The Member for Essex delivered a fiery speech, but I think the quote of the day goes to a Member from the Bloc whose riding I didn't catch.
Respected magazines all over Europe have used on their cover pages menacing images of fiery dragons spewing banknotes or contemporary Maos with imperialistic designs on the continent.
He was also something of a fiery personality, who liked to argue with referees, opponents and managers alike. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
He is very pious and self-reliant, which is provocative of bigotry and hot temper; and surrounded and approached on all sides by clever and often unscrupulous financiers and speculators, his scutcheon has worn wonderfully well, and his character and reputation passed through many fiery ordeals. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below. A Wanderer in Holland
Lyra is wonderful as an independent prospector who learns from being burned; while intriguingly he does not regrets his actions but is burned more so as his obsidian and her amethyst is a fiery PSI heart and soul matching . Obsidian Prey-Jayne Castle « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
We are sailing due westward and the sun, yet two hours high, is blazoning a fiery glory on the sea that spreads and gleams like some broad, jeweled trail, to where the blue and distant shadow-land lifts its carven front aloft, leaving, as it gropes, shades of shadows beyond. DARKWATER
Suspicion hath it that in this neighborhood, in a still wilder and more secluded spot, there was not long ago another kind of "cratur," not at all extinct, but alive with all the fiery headiness of moonshine "old corn" whiskey. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
Bar the odd blip, though, this is fiery fare. Times, Sunday Times
Her fiery rhetoric was tempered by her humanity. Times, Sunday Times
Why is the fugitive slave, the fiery orator, the political activist, the abolitionist always represented as a black man?
‘It was a fiery, ill-tempered, ill-disciplined game,’ he said.
Harold's presumptuous guilt in rejection, the fiery fanaticism of all enlisted under the gonfanon of the Church. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
This weekend's Sun and Mercury march into fiery Aries, named for an ancient war god - while Pluto, said to activate the collective unconscious, retrogrades in Sagittarius, another fire sign, till the end of August.
So if anyone tries to tell you how to behave, your hackles will rise and the fiery side of your nature will come to the fore. The Sun
I was hardly allowed out of the house for fears I'd commit a sin and earn an all-inclusive family vacation in the fiery pits of Hell.
The phrase itself is both alliterative and euphonious, and it's certainly not a random adjective-noun combination like we've become used to with band names; furnaces have flames in them, and thus they are fiery.
In the hungry light of the houseboat he could see the fiery ravishment of her legs and belly; he could smell the other man, and her devourment of him. Tours of the Black Clock
Dull green oval summer leaves turn yellow, orange and fiery red in autumn. Winter Garden Glory
The judge was smiling; something which gave his rosy cheeks even more of a fiery colour.
I know she's got a reputation to maintain as a feisty, fiery character but she got really personal. The Sun
bluestone" with which its fiery contents were strengthened, would work the passionate natures, on which it was to play, up to the proper crime-committing pitch. The Story of the Foss River Ranch
Her character is a fiery, temperamental woman who likes to get her own way.
The weak vinegar is first applied to the outer and less fiery parts of the outstrike. Papers on Health
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Our Hundred Days in Europe
From fiery jerk dishes to sublimely sweet mangoes, the foods of Jamaica are exciting and comforting.
PG, you raise a good point about what PSRC's meant to be - an angle not explored at all by this coverage yet, which results in fiery but half-cocked comments. Seattle Council, KC Exec Support Highway-Heavy Transportation Plan « PubliCola
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
The whirling flavours release bitter-sweet lime, aromatic bitters and fiery ginger with every twist.
Anaxagoras, that the reason of the inequality ariseth from the commixture of things earthy and cold; and that fiery and caliginous matter is jumbled together, whereby the moon is said to be a star of a counterfeit aspect. Essays and Miscellanies
Ring meets fiery end and peace is restored. The Sun
He died of drink - not the social drinking which leads so often to ruin here - but the fiery, passionate dipsomania which is a common disease even in the very best circles of the Scandinavian countries.
And unrelated to the geodetics of the situation but corresponding to the Aries New Moon, a fireball blazed in the sky throughout the midwest states of the US on Wednesday night as the fiery Aries New Moon squared off against Pluto. Astrological Musings
Based on the French novella by Prosper Merimee and the popular opera by Georges Bizet, Carmen is the story of a fiery Spanish gypsy who spurns her obsessive soldier lover for a flashy bullfighter.
Less pardonable is the reduction of Lincoln's complex politics to fuzzy psychological concepts like "growth," transforming the story of what was indeed a fiery political trial into a therapeutic fairy tale. The Path To Proclamation
What happens is that they are both very fiery, strong characters and they gesticulate a lot.
As this incantation proceeds, small flickering tongues of fire start forth on every side; they soon rise higher and higher, roaring and crackling until, as Wotan disappears, they form a fiery barrier all around the sleeping Walkyrie: -- Stories of the Wagner Opera
The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
Behind him the sun was setting, its final rays turning the sky a fiery red. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that be had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire. The Picture of Dorian Gray
The creature bellowed a seeming laugh at the pitiful maneuver, gnashing its wicked teeth and bullying its fiery body in such a way as to corner Galafar from getting away, coiling its body all around him.
His fine sonnets to Liberty, and indeed, all his pieces which have any reference to political interest, remind me of the spirit in which Schiller has conceived the character of William Tell, a calm, single hearted herdsman of the hills, breaking forth into fiery and indignant eloquence, when the sanctity of his hearth is invaded. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, with Illustrations of Her Literary Character from Her Private Correspondence
For a man who was known to record some of the most fiery roots music this side of the Mississippi, he was usually not featured belting out some rambunctious R & B or scorching rockabilly.
Broad-leaved cannas, hostas, deep orange dahlias, fiery crocosmias and tender bulbs such as gloriosa will all add heat to the scene, while plants of architectural interest such as Fatsia japonica, palms, cordyline and phormium can all add to that tropical feel. IcNewcastle
Be sure you want a fiery relationship before getting closer to a Leo. The Sun
The fiery wife of Charles Powell, one of Margaret Thatcher's inner circle, she was a networker with more connections than Google, accumulating the great and the good the way others collect Meissen china.
If you are one, have a fiery streek, please contact me so we can meet and physically fight. 11/10/2004
He brought the cigar to his mouth and sucked on it, the orange tip growing a fiery hot yellow, then returning to its usual dullness.
This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete
The fiery broth is overflowing with tender calamari, a crab claw, shrimp, chunks of fish and one impeccable scallop.
In short, whoever takes his ephemeris in one hand and history in the other, will have no difficulty in convincing himself of the efficacy of such configurations; and though, by changing the signs, they may vary the effects and also the places most subject to their influence, yet it will appear that the observations of different authors (wherein they all agree that England is most passive to the fiery trigon) are founded on truth. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
* Illumine the eyes of my heart, * you who once gave birth to the unfading Light * Who illumines the ends of the earth * through the fiery sign of His judgment. "Lent is the sacramental expression of the brief life we live here..."
Indeed, at the time I was distinctly underwhelmed by the discovery that the fiery red planet of everyone's vivid imaginings had turned out to be, well, beige.
The other male had dark, ebon skin, and long scarlet hair that waved gently in the fiery breeze.
Lion of Scotland, ramping on his gold field within his tressure fiery and counter flory, but surmounted by a label divided into twelve, and placed upon a pen-noncel, or triangular piece of silk. The Caged Lion
The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
The sulker needs to learn not to take the fiery outbursts personally and optimally allow the shouter a few minutes of venting before taking leave of the scene. Pega Ren: What's Your Anger Style?
You're passionate and fiery and need a short, funky textured look.
One was surely the thinnest man alive, his black flesh pasted over his sharp bones like tissue paper, his gait mincing, his eyes fiery. EVERVILLE
"As well as being a hallucinogenic," says Phillips, "the thorn apple has a fiery, hot taste and causes sweating and burning sensations throughout the body".
And here in Cologne, I had a plate of blutwurst with mashed potato mixed with cooked apple, and a hefty dollop of fiery German mustard. Archive 2004-12-01
The equally glamorous Einstein's Cross, composed of five fiery white balls in a deep blue field haloed by a flickering ring of red, is closely based on a Hubble telescope image taken off the Internet.
Born in London of a French mother, by a German father, but reared entirely in England and in France, there is, in his fury, a combination of French suddenness and impressibility with our more slowly demonstrative Anglo-Saxon way when we get, as we say, “our blood up”, that produces an intensely fiery result. Miscellaneous Papers
Be sure you want a fiery relationship before getting closer to a Leo. The Sun
There is a melancholy in the modern world which looks with nostalgia to the days when magic ruled the world, and sunrise was a time of aubade, dusk a time for the canticles of evensong, when the elfin ships can be glimpsed by those with second sight against the fiery clouds, setting sail away from the mortal shores for worlds beyond the sunset, beyond the seas we know. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
He wasn't a rabble-rouser, he wasn't a fiery speaker, he wasn't a mobiliser of large crowds, and he certainly wasn't a guerrilla.
This word means fiery ones, in allusion, as is supposed, to their burning love.
Leafless by early November, the pencil-thin twigs are a uniform fiery red, rising as high as seven feet.
Your fiery nature creates more than enough heat so you may not be fond of baking-hot days and uncomfy nights. The Sun
Their paranoid espousal of various conspiracy theories, rabid support of Israel and religious Zionism, and fiery preaching about the "Islamic Threat" held for me a strange fascination.
From HBO-land: Game of Thrones' "imp"-ish Peter Dinklage is an obvious choice, ditto Boardwalk's fiery Kelly Macdonald, but I'm surprised Michael Shannon, as Boardwalk's twisted Prohibition agent, wasn't recognized. Critic's Notebook: The Emmy Nominations
If some families favor expressing anger through icy silence, others prefer a more fiery style, whether through word or deed.
His face was quickly acquiring the colour of his fiery hairstyle.
A burst tire is believed to have ruptured a fuel tank, causing the fiery crash.
He could be distant, private, sensitive, fiery, but he was a man also governed by impressive kindness and responsibleness.
Consequently, a good number of the tracks on "High Time" reach the high level of their label counterparts The Fiery Furnaces and High Places. Faronheit
Where are the cries, the distressed gulls wheeling, the fiery orange light? Times, Sunday Times
A genuine artist, his fiery, passionate nature carried over to his work and transformed it into a feast for the senses that captured the soul.
Nancy, however, was very used to the princess's fiery nature.
The one at Sungei Road, though less fiery than the Borneo variety, is still a spicy hellbroth of fresh cockles, slices of fish cake and beehoon noodles in coconut milk, seasoned with garlic, red chilies, belacan dried shrimp paste, lemongrass, galangal root and turmeric. Zomg dalek cake!
(a red gad-fly) were troublesome as usual, and at night the mosquitoes phlebotomized us till we hailed the dawn. 18 A delightful bath of salt followed by fresh water, effectually quenched the fiery irritation of these immundicities. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
The old village of Freshwater is picturesque, but the new lodging-house portion, only lately sprung up because it has become a fashion with doctors to prescribe Freshwater as a holiday and sanitary place, is hideous in its newness of fiery red brick and freshly uptorn earth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
A genuine artist, his fiery, passionate nature carried over to his work and transformed it into a feast for the senses that captured the soul.
The swollen eyelid was a fiery red. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
Milton had become too rational and believed in a fiery jealous God rather than the forgiving Holy Spirit.
He stared at it in amaze, his brain a racing wild-fire of hypotheses to account for this far-journeyer who had adventured the night of space, threaded the stars, and now rose before him and above him, exhumed by patient anthropophagi, pitted and lacquered by its fiery bath in two atmospheres. THE RED ONE
The story of the fiesta is surrounded by religion, legend and the fiery Basque spirit.
If you have red hair some employers might associate that with a fiery temper before they even meet you.
The possession of power, even when greatly restrained, is such a fiery stimulant, that its lodgment in human hands is always perilous. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
Session) with an eye as fine and soft as the Thracian Rhodope's, or as threatening and commanding as that of Mars -- even a hectoring fiery thrasonic Hibernian Mars -- himself, without being able to tell whether it was a black or a blue one, or even a Green or a Yellow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893
Together they looked and danced like the fiery heat that filled the evening sky.
People with an emphasis on the fire element tend to be outgoing, inspirational and ‘fiery’.
As the fiery ball sunk lower into the water, the colors radiated over its surface, shining and creating a beautiful pallet of color.
He stared at it in amaze, his brain a racing wild-fire of hypotheses to account for this far-journeyer who had adventured the night of space, threaded the stars, and now rose before him and above him, exhumed by patient anthropophagi, pitted and lacquered by its fiery bath in two atmospheres. THE RED ONE
Not that she has any talent for arguments, but she has a passionate heart and a fiery spirit.
(with the blood-poisoning and delirium above-mentioned), sometimes after an overdose, but oftener seeming to occur spontaneously, or in the midst of physical or mental agony as great and irrelievable as men suffer in hopeful abandonment of the drug, and with a colliquative diarrhea, by which -- in a continual fiery, acrid discharge -- the system relieves itself during a final fortnight of the effete matters which have been accumulating for years. The Opium Habit
He tried to turn over, to face her, but at the sight of him the fiery anger overwhelmed her, and she swung as hard as she could in a deadly arc!
She has fiery red hair.
Each cluster is made up of circular grapes of fiery black opals and delicately tooled gold leaves covered in translucent green enamel, spaced equally along the chain.
The Army ‘eight’, is reputed to be fiery in their loose play and this will no doubt, test the strength of their opponents this evening.
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Hot Cross Bunny turns out to be a recipe for curried rabbit that includes a shot of fiery Thai red curry paste.
a fiery start with MPB chairman Dr Patrick Maduna demanding to know why the MPB initially had been barred "unconstitutionally" from attending the meeting by the legislature. ANC Daily News Briefing
I feared he was about to speak again and I raised my hand to signify forbiddal -- but he saw it not, and my inward protest yielded to his fiery purpose. St. Cuthbert's
We are sailing due westward and the sun, yet two hours high, is blazoning a fiery glory on the sea that spreads and gleams like some broad, jeweled trail, to where the blue and distant shadow-land lifts its carven front aloft, leaving, as it gropes, shades of shadows beyond. DARKWATER
Tourmaline Yixing Cup is now underway for the National Investment fiery welcome to negotiate!
It is a confoundyous injective so to say, Shaun the fiery boy shouted, naturally incensed, as he shook the red pepper out of his auricles. Finnegans Wake
In true cowpoke style, he downed the fiery arak the barman brought in one gulp, without thinking. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
He's disappointed at his lack of strength after nuking himself in a combination carnival ride / X-ray machine, but later when he dreams about his wife's fiery death, he's so angry that he turns into The Hulk.
The stone meteorite, which was later determined to weigh 12.37 kilograms upon impact, was a fragment of a fiery meteor, described as flaring brighter than a full moon and strikingly visible in the night sky from West Virginia to New York. Oct. 9, 1992: My Insurance Agent Will Never Believe This
He has a fiery temper waiting to be drawn out. The Sun
The candlelight cast a golden hue onto her fiery-red hair, and Rhea wondered off-handedly if Jali had ever considered dyeing it.
Yet Soutine's existential outcries and fiery whirlwinds build to a state of natural beauty and calm—as if they could not have happened any other way. Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare
I see an engaging and fiery young woman, who on a number of occasions, has shown a regal command equal to any royal in the world, and I have known my share of royalty.
No matter what they did she bobbed up again, fiery, fearless, clouting to the left and the right with her wit.
Now, there is this valval which is very mild. and then there is another curry called "VaLVaLayn" which is a fiery spicy curry made with jackfruit seeds. Valval - Root Vegetables Stew
Mr. Moulton took the paper, deliberately adjusted his spectacles, and, having read it very leisurely (I wondered how those fiery creatures had the forbearance to stay quiet, but they did; I think they were hypnotized by my father-in-law's coolness), he said, in his weird French, "Vous voolly nos animaux!" which sounded like _nos animose_. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
Carved in stone or cast in bronze, His ananda tandava, the fierce ballet of bliss, dances the cosmos into and out of existence within a fiery arch of flames denoting consciousness.
I ignored them, too intent on vocally harassing the person who had made my life a living, hot, fiery hell ever since they just happened to shoot me.
While the little black dress will always be a safe bet, the trend this year is to be bold with colour and you will find a range of fiery reds, rich pinks, violets and berry shades.
Unfortunately, the demon's fiery sword was waiting and caught my blow.
The colour is so fiery it looks like one bite will singe your lips off, but the flavour is a wonderfully complex mixture of sweet and spicy.
It is thanks to that job that she went from blonde to fiery red. The Sun
In spite of some fiery emotions at the moment I think you'll be happily surprised at just how restrained and conscious the work has been along this course.
a fish-shaped flyswatter with blue horns, fermented lemures, fiery spectres, embottled spirit vapors swirling in the crude next to the Soft Scrub, the vinegared and leistered sealed in tins, delicious with saltines, gleaned spikelets, used-up votives .... The New Yorker
A fiery, tempestuous reading of the Allegro non troppo had just the right contrasting hues of aristocratic grace.
He would use the sublime and powerful cetic arts to continue the fiery work of remaking himself. THE BROKEN GOD
In 1618, Galileo explained some visible comets in a fiery work as reflexions of light, so that nobody believed the Jesuit astronomer Grassi, who realised that the comets were flying bodies.
So the glare Liz gave the prez when he said that was truly fiery and evil.
In vignettes centering on a fiery local waitress, a seventh-generation fisherman, the doyenne of a fading lesbian power culture, an unrepentant jinx, and other characters for whom the term colorful does scant justice, he introduces a community bound by tradition, superstition, recalcitrance, and a profound, more visceral than affectionate love for the sea. Undefined
At this stage in a man's growth, the fiery, impetuous impulses of his youth have given way to a more balanced and thoughtful view.
Page 22 and the good ladies brought out their foamiest cider and sweetest courtesies, while on the sideboard, according to the bad customs of that day, stood decanters of dark-hued rum and ruddy apple brandy and the fiery juice of the Indian corn, which delights to flow in the shining of the moon. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
Mrs Wood, a graphic designer currently working as a cleaner, said some people automatically associated red hair with a bad temper and fiery nature.
Tow-line and pole, paddle and tump-line, rapids and portages, -- such tortures served to give the one a deep digust for great hazards, and printed for the other a fiery text on the true romance of adventure. In a Far Country
The earliest conquistadors in the 1500s, who knew only the brownish madders and russets of the Old World, were dazzled by these Aztec reds; nothing back home could match their fiery intensity.
FORGET haggis and whisky, in Perthshire they are embracing all things fiery and hot. The Sun
It fuels the amazing fire tornado, which pirouettes in a fiery red glow at ten-minute intervals.
I observed crowds of party-animal stockbrokers knocking back cups of sweet-potato shochu, and shochu infused with Turkish apricots, both of which tasted more or less like fiery rotgut to me.
Sit at a table on the terrace at sunset, sip a glass of fino and watch as the magnificent Giralda tower, just yards away, turns from warm yellow to soft pink to fiery gold.
FORGET haggis and whisky, in Perthshire they are embracing all things fiery and hot. The Sun
However, it is mostly as an essayist and letter writer that she excelled and put to effective use her fiery spirit as a rebel, social activist and reformer.
Stoops was 41-50 but also had led the Wildcats to bowl games each of the past three seasons, doing so in a manner that had the word "fiery" essentially affixed as a permanent addition to his first name. The Seattle Times
The fiery actress kicked him in the shins.
Bar the odd blip, though, this is fiery fare. Times, Sunday Times
A smaller and lighter horse, but restive and fiery, was brought to Legolas.
This spicy salsa is like pesto, only hot and fiery. The Sun
He stared at it in amaze, his brain a racing wild-fire of hypotheses to account for this far-journeyer who had adventured the night of space, threaded the stars, and now rose before him and above him, exhumed by patient anthropophagi, pitted and lacquered by its fiery bath in two atmospheres. THE RED ONE
The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
III. ii.188 (64,2) [all yon fiery O's] I would willingly believe that the poet wrote _fiery orbs_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
NAJAF, Iraq — Muqtada al-Sadr lambasted the American "enemy" in Iraq during his first speech in the country since returning from exile, fiery rhetoric from a new powerbroker in the government that will make it difficult to extend the U.S. military deployment beyond the end of this year. Iraqi Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr: "Resist The US By All Means Necessary"
In the third case, a short period of comparative repose succeeded the first fiery battle, but in the midst of felicitations on his victory he was attacked by the most agonizing hemicranial headaches (resulting from what I now fear to have been already permanent disorganization of the stomach), and went back to his nepenthe in a state of almost suicidal despair, only after the torture had continued for weeks without a moment's mitigation. The Opium Habit
I noticed that Zeke is so laid back and patient and easy-going and Aimee is all fiery and passionate about everything!
In years past, Beijing repeatedly drove islanders into the independence camp with its fiery rhetoric and ham-handed military threats.
Yet Father Time may may yet catch up with the fiery Lancashireman.
Sour cream and smoky chipotle peppers in adobo sauce add a complex, fiery layer unique to a traditional party dip.
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
The first season of Game of Thrones came to a fiery conclusion, and although we lost a major player in the game, another was reborn, phoenixlike, from the ashes of a funeral pyre. Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke on the Fiery Finale: "Dragons Trump Everything"
The expression was taut, fiery even, and it seemed ready to pounce - - the eyes beady, observant.

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