"Ferocious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never before would have any transactions with the government. They are called the Pillagers, a fierce and warlike race, proud of their independence, and, next to the Blackfeet and the Camanches, the most ferocious and formidable tribe within the territory of the United States. They inhabit the country about Red River and the head-waters ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant
... he was but a child. Jacques—that was the name of the man who had brought him cakes and toys in the comfortable rooms where he had remained only a few days. He understood, or at least he thought he understood, everything. "Ah, ha!" he exclaimed, with a laugh that was at once both ferocious and idiotic. "This is very fine—monsieur is the lover. He has the ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... and without police escort in Tulla and Athenry was as great as ever was displayed by a knight-errant of old. The Nationalist papers, no longer able to taunt him with cowardice, took to declaring him to be a person notorious for ferocious brutality. ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey
... assurance. An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man ...
— The Island of Doctor Moreau • H. G. Wells
... for that character originated in the action of the Spaniards during their struggles with the Patriots. The latter were not faultless, but they often exhibited a generosity and a self-denial that promised much for the future of their country, which promise would have been realized but for the ferocious tone of the warfare of the old governing race. The Spaniards were ultimately beaten, but they left behind them an evil that marred the victory of the Patriots, and which has done much to prevent it from proving useful to those who ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
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