Fiery
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His large dark eyes, which, in moments of calm, suggested a reflective,
fiery
spirit, were animated at this instant with an expression of the most ferocious hatred.
With his
fiery
nature Julien had one of those astonishing memories so often found in foolish people.
'I might have married a man like this!'Madame de Renal sometimes thought; 'What a
fiery
spirit!
Hitherto he had remained silent; his eye, which Julien had watched, at first mild and calm, had grown
fiery
after the first hour's discussion.
'I need advice to guide me in dealing with that
fiery
man ...
Could you reckon for an instant, knowing the
fiery
character of Mademoiselle de La Mole, upon a secrecy which she had not imposed on herself?
So then he started working especially hard, with a
fiery
vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn money in quite different ways.
"Your pulse even and soft, your skin moist, but your eye fiery, and cheek flushed.
"This villainous fresh-water gas from the Canadas has been whistling among my bones till they ache with the cold, but the sight of your
fiery
countenance is as cheery as a Christmas fire."
Advancing instantly to the chair of Wellmere, the surgeon instinctively laid hold of his arm, and exclaimed,-"Bless me! - a quick and irregular pulse - flushed cheek and
fiery
eye - strong febrile symptoms, and such as must be attended to."
"The Southern temper is quick and fiery," continued Miss Peyton; "and your brother, feeble and weak as he is, has looked the whole afternoon flushed and angry."
Among them were her aunt and Isabella, pointing with distraction to the
fiery
edifice, and apparently urging the dragoons to enter it.
"Yes, that there has, often, and comets with fiery, smoking tails.
"An adventurous, warm-hearted son - I warrant me, gentlemen, a
fiery
soldier in the field!
"Would you plunge a soul into the
fiery
furnace, and a minister at hand to point out the straight and narrow path?""I'll tell you what, good woman," returned the corporal, gently pushing her away; "I've no notion of my back being a highway for any man to walk to heaven upon.
"Nay, then," exclaimed the
fiery
youth, "I will join the troops of my prince, and share their fortune, be it good or be it bad."
"'Tis the night damp that chills the blood - and then the talk with the cursed militia is no good for a
fiery
temper.
I would have given them good words, but there was no room for it, two
fiery
dragons could not have been more furious than they were; they tore my clothes, bullied and roared as if they would have murdered me; the mistress of the house came next, and then the master, and all outrageous, for a while especially.
The next morning she came to see me; she did what she could to comfort me, but she saw that was to no purpose; however, as she said, to sink under the weight was but to increase the weight; she immediately applied herself to all the proper methods to prevent the effects of it, which we feared, and first she found out the two
fiery
jades that had surprised me.
Each night, the drowned man visited them, insomnia stretched them on beds of live coal and turned them over with
fiery
tongs.
The
fiery
Biscayan was the first to strike a blow, which was delivered with such force and fury that had not the sword turned in its course, that single stroke would have sufficed to put an end to the bitter struggle and to all the adventures of our knight; but that good fortune which reserved him for greater things, turned aside the sword of his adversary, so that although it smote him upon the left shoulder, it did him no more harm than to strip all that side of its armour, carrying away a great part of his helmet with half of his ear, all which with fearful ruin fell to the ground, leaving him in a sorry plight.
"I would like, if it were possible," answered Sancho Panza, "your worship to give me a couple of sups of that potion of the
fiery
Blas, if it be that you have any to hand there; perhaps it will serve for broken bones as well as for wounds."
"And then, what do you say to the good Cirongilio of Thrace, that was so stout and bold; as may be seen in the book, where it is related that as he was sailing along a river there came up out of the midst of the water against him a
fiery
serpent, and he, as soon as he saw it, flung himself upon it and got astride of its scaly shoulders, and squeezed its throat with both hands with such force that the serpent, finding he was throttling it, had nothing for it but to let itself sink to the bottom of the river, carrying with it the knight who would not let go his hold; and when they got down there he found himself among palaces and gardens so pretty that it was a wonder to see; and then the serpent changed itself into an old ancient man, who told him such things as were never heard.
Dost thou not know, thou miserable little licentiate, that I can do it, being, as I say, Jupiter the Thunderer, who hold in my hands the
fiery
bolts with which I am able and am wont to threaten and lay waste the world?
Here the author's outburst came to an end, and he proceeded to take up the thread of his story, saying that the keeper, seeing that Don Quixote had taken up his position, and that it was impossible for him to avoid letting out the male without incurring the enmity of the
fiery
and daring knight, flung open the doors of the first cage, containing, as has been said, the lion, which was now seen to be of enormous size, and grim and hideous mien.
Night now closed in more completely, and many lights began to flit through the wood, just as those
fiery
exhalations from the earth, that look like shooting-stars to our eyes, flit through the heavens; a frightful noise, too, was heard, like that made by the solid wheels the ox-carts usually have, by the harsh, ceaseless creaking of which, they say, the bears and wolves are put to flight, if there happen to be any where they are passing.
'It IS matter of wonder, though, that anyone of Mr. Nathaniel Pipkin's retiring disposition, nervous temperament, and most particularly diminutive income, should from this day forth, have dared to aspire to the hand and heart of the only daughter of the
fiery
old Lobbs--of old Lobbs, the great saddler, who could have bought up the whole village at one stroke of his pen, and never felt the outlay--old Lobbs, who was well known to have heaps of money, invested in the bank at the nearest market town--who was reported to have countless and inexhaustible treasures hoarded up in the little iron safe with the big keyhole, over the chimney-piece in the back parlour--and who, it was well known, on festive occasions garnished his board with a real silver teapot, cream-ewer, and sugar-basin, which he was wont, in the pride of his heart, to boast should be his daughter's property when she found a man to her mind.
'Gabriel murmured out something about its being very pretty, and looked somewhat ashamed, as the goblin bent his
fiery
eyes upon him.
'In what way?''Really,' replied Wardle, 'you're such a
fiery
sort of a young fellow that I am almost afraid to tell you; but, however, if Perker will sit between us to prevent mischief, I'll venture.'
THE RED-HEADED LEAGUEI had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with
fiery
red hair.
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