fierceness

Example Sentences

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Such fiercenesses are silenced now; but, silent, they have still their utterance, and it is here.

From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell

She sounded so like herself in one of her fiercenesses that Anne at last believed she was wholly awake and felt a terror of her own.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

The dormant possibilities of his own fanatical nature rose up before him—pale, inarticulate fiercenesses crushed so long, and now trembling eagerly under his breath at the prospect of a little more liberty in loving.

From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by Hobbes, John Oliver