What is "fierceness"

Usage examples of "fierceness".

In his words, she sensed the fierceness of the battle fought, his grief at lives lost, and something else that slipped away before she could understand it.

Something that spoke of far more than weariness or the fierceness of the battle past, and sliced through the lethargy of heat that had dulled her senses.

As it attacked, she had felt its warmth beneath her hands and clung to that warmth and fierceness, as she now clung to him.

There with a barely controlled fierceness that constantly battled the more rational need to be gentle with her, they came together like midnight sky and morning sun, dark upon pale gold as she welcomed him with slender arms, and the quickening heat of her body.

Our total losses, therefore, were eight killed and the same wounded, which could not but be regarded as a very moderate number when we consider the fierceness of the skirmish, and the superiority of our enemy both in discipline and in equipment.

It was the first time he had spoken without any trace of reserve to her, for even on the tower, though there had been tumult in his voice and a fierceness of some strange passion in his words, there had been struggle in his manner, as if the pressure of feeling forced him to speak in despite of something which bade him keep silence.

His eyes shone in the faint light with a fierceness of emotion in which there was a joy that was almost terrible, but in which there seemed also to be something that was troubled.

Kenric accustomed Tess slowly to his touch and the fierceness of his desire.

They saw a quick glimpse of Okur, and he was fighting with such fierceness that Calhoun had a moment of sympathy for him.

The guards had not reached me when he fell upon them from the rear, and as they turned, thinking from the fierceness of his onslaught that a dozen were attacking them, I rushed them from my side.

I cried, and my blood burned with the intense rage which a much slighter cause would have kindled from the natural fierceness of my temper.

It was only by summoning up all the fierceness of his temper, all the impatience of his passions, and all the mistaken haughtiness and inflexibility of his purpose, that he could resist the artless enchantment.

But straightways we saw divers of the people, with bastons in their hands, as it were forbidding us to land: yet without any cries or fierceness, but only as warning us off, by signs that they made.

He did not get far with the laugh, because the humpback grabbed his mouth with rough fierceness.

His worn-out passion, resembling in its impotent fierceness the excitement of a senile sensualist, was badly served by a dried throat and toothless gums which seemed to catch the tip of his tongue.