Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Fierce

Fierce as the flight of Jove’s destroying flame.
—Mark Akenside

Fierce as a Japanese mask.
—Anonymous

Fierce as Jove.
—Anonymous

Fierce as lecherous desire.
—Anonymous

Fierce as a lion of Cotswold.
—Anonymous

Fierce as a mother bird.
—Anonymous

Fierce as a ramcat.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Fierce as those flames which shall consume, at close of all.
—Bhagavad-Gita

Fierce as twenty bloodhounds.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fierce as the shout of victory.
—William Cullen Bryant

Fierce as the blast that tears the northern sky.
—Thomas Chatterton

Fierce as the fallynge thunderbolte.
—Thomas Chatterton

Fiers as leoun.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Fierce as sin.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne

Fierce as a whirlwind.
—Homer

Fierce as a tigress plundered of her young.
—Juvenal

Fierce as the hydra.
—William King

Fierce as Achilles was.
—Christopher Marlowe

Fierce as a female Leviathan.
—Owen Meredith

Fierce as mounts the flame in air.
—William J. Mickle

Fierce as a comet.
—John Milton

Fierce as ten furies.
—John Milton

Fierce as a turkey-cock.
—James Montgomery

As fierce as the Pentland Firth.
—Scottish Proverb

Fierce … as whetted scythe.
—John Ruskin

As ferce and as cruell as the feende of hel.
—John Skelton

Fierce as a famished wolf.
—Robert Southey

Fierce as hauke in flight.
—Edmund Spenser

Fierce as a blast of hate from hell.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fierce as the fervid eyes of lions.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fierce as flaming fire.
—Torquato Tasso

Fierce as aqua fortis.
—John Tatham

Fierce, as powers at bay.
—Bayard Taylor

Fierce as wolves.
—Leo Tolstoy