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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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"Fiery" Quotes from Famous Books

... printed at length or cut up into eights and sixes, they had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble which is inexpressibly monotonous. Even when the spur of a really poetical inspiration excites this amble into something more fiery (the best example existing is probably Southwell's wonderful "Burning Babe"), the sensitive ear feels that there is constant danger of a relapse, and at the worst the thing becomes mere doggerel. Yet for about a quarter of a century these overgrown lines held the ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... O beautiful Sin, Let thy stinging red kisses pour down fiery red wine into our blood. Sound the trumpet of imperious evil And cross our forehead with the wreath of exulting lawlessness, O Deity of Desecration, Smear our breasts with the blackest ...

— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore

... Ireland. But let him, at least if he values facts, think twice before he goes on to apply to her that other line which speaks of human hopes defeated and overthrown. No other people in the world has held so staunchly to its inner vision; none other has, with such fiery patience, repelled the hostility of circumstances, and in the end reshaped them after the desire of her heart. Hats off to success, gentlemen! Your modern God may well be troubled at sight of this enigmatic Ireland which at once despises ...

— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle

... was, by a romantic, if unreasonable, passion, proved altogether too irresistible for me to give it up. Laughing outright in my endeavor to throw off the surplus of my excitement, I drew myself up and uttered some fiery phrase of courage, which I doubt if she even heard. Then I said some word about the doctor, which she at once ...

— The Bronze Hand - 1897 • Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

... and earth, presences hover, spirits of those long dead or of those yet to be, lured by the power of music to return to life, or to begin it. Figures are dimly descried in the fervor and passion of music, even as of old in the glare and glow of the fiery furnace. ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

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