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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fierce
 
  Fierce as the flight of Jove’s destroying flame.
            —Mark Akenside		  1
  Fierce as a Japanese mask.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Fierce as Jove.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Fierce as lecherous desire.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Fierce as a lion of Cotswold.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Fierce as a mother bird.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Fierce as a ramcat.
            —J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms		  7
  Fierce as those flames which shall consume, at close of all.
            —Bhagavad-Gita		  8
  Fierce as twenty bloodhounds.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  9
  Fierce as the shout of victory.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  10
  Fierce as the blast that tears the northern sky.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  11
  Fierce as the fallynge thunderbolte.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  12
  Fiers as leoun.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  13
  Fierce as sin.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  14
  Fierce as a whirlwind.
            —Homer		  15
  Fierce as a tigress plundered of her young.
            —Juvenal		  16
  Fierce as the hydra.
            —William King		  17
  Fierce as Achilles was.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  18
  Fierce as a female Leviathan.
            —Owen Meredith		  19
  Fierce as mounts the flame in air.
            —William J. Mickle		  20
  Fierce as a comet.
            —John Milton		  21
  Fierce as ten furies.
            —John Milton		  22
  Fierce as a turkey-cock.
            —James Montgomery		  23
  As fierce as the Pentland Firth.
            —Scottish Proverb		  24
  Fierce … as whetted scythe.
            —John Ruskin		  25
  As ferce and as cruell as the feende of hel.
            —John Skelton		  26
  Fierce as a famished wolf.
            —Robert Southey		  27
  Fierce as hauke in flight.
            —Edmund Spenser		  28
  Fierce as a blast of hate from hell.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  29
  Fierce as the fervid eyes of lions.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  30
  Fierce as flaming fire.
            —Torquato Tasso		  31
  Fierce as aqua fortis.
            —John Tatham		  32
  Fierce, as powers at bay.
            —Bayard Taylor		  33
  Fierce as wolves.
            —Leo Tolstoy		  34
 
 
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