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adjective

Fiery adj.

Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. "And fiery billows roll below."

Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. "Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails?" "The fiery spirit of his forefathers."

Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. "You know the fiery quality of the duke."

Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited. "One curbed the fiery steed."

Heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish. "The sword which is made fiery."

Fiery cross, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms.

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... Malise unlace his helmet in compliment to his guests, he stood presently bareheaded before them, his head appearing above the blackness of his armour, bright as a flower with youth and instinct with all the fiery beauty of ...

— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett

... by Indiana as the harbingers of a rising hurricane; and now a swift spark of light, like a falling star, glanced on the water, as if there to quench its fiery light. Again the Indian girl raised her dark hand and pointed to the rolling storm-clouds, to the crested waters and the moving pine-tops; then to the head of the Beaver Island,—it was the one nearest to them. With an arm of energy she wielded the paddle, with an ...

— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill

... warriors are? Why, truly the peasant Does not live in armour, Does not die in warfare, But nevertheless He's a warrior, child. His hands are bound tight, 410 And his feet hung with fetters; His back—mighty forests Have broken across it; His breast—I will tell you, The Prophet Elijah In chariot fiery Is thundering within it; And these things the peasant Can suffer in patience. He bends—but he breaks not; 420 He reels—but he falls not; Then is he not ...

— Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? • Nicholas Nekrassov

... Though all the neighboring trees around Were slain, as cumberers of the ground, Yet here I tower in grandeur still,— The pride and glory of the hill. My dauntless spirits never quail At earthquakes, hurricanes, or hail; The rolling thunder's fiery car Has never dared my form to mar; I've heard its rumbling undismayed, While forked lightnings round me played; But O, thou little murm'ring brook, How mean and meager is thy look;— Babbling, babbling, all day long,— How I detest thy simple song. I would not have thee in my ...

— The Snow-Drop • Sarah S. Mower

... caught in the molten stream of a volcano, and carried by the fiery current that seethed all about her, consuming her ...

— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell

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