"Fury" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pouring With a wild eternal roar; Like a sea, that's burst its barriers Resounding evermore: Like an ocean lash'd to fury, And toiling to o'erwhelm With its devastating billows The earth's ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various
... within her. Her face was pale, and though her eyes seemed to smile, there was a gleam far back in them that suggested thoughts of force, instant, vicious. Also there was wrath in them—wrath that threatened to break with volcanic fury. ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... explained. Her traditional character was not quite consistent with the horrors of her revenge. In the Atlaml the character of Gudrun is so conceived as to explain her revenge,—the killing of her children follows close upon her fury in the battle, and the cruelty of Attila is here a direct challenge to Gudrun, not, as in the Atlakvia, a mere incident in Attila's search for the Niblung treasure. The cruelty of the death of Hogni in the Atlakvia is purely a matter ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker
... Charles II. It was chosen as being well away from the town. Pennant says: "Golden Square, of dirty access, was built after the Revolution or before 1700. It was built by that true hero Lord Craven, who stayed in London during the whole time: and braved the fury of the pestilence with the same coolness as he fought the battles of his beloved mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia." It was in Golden Square that De Quincey took leave of Ann, whom he ...
— The Strand District - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant
... ancient and reverend man, though sour, was critically accurate,—that "it is the weakness of infants' limbs, and not their minds, which are innocent." It is most true. Many an impotent infantine screech or slap or scratch embodies an abandonment and ecstasy of utter uncontrolled fury scarcely expressible by the grown-up man, though he should work the bloodiest murder to express it. And what adult manifestation, except in the violent ward of an insane retreat, or perhaps among savages,—the infants of the world,—equals, in exquisite concentration and rapture of fury, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various
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