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  • He stood out boldly amidst fury's flames, with the dead and dying all around him, never losing poise, never allowing passion to rob him of judgment's sensitive scales, unawed

    Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army 1914

  • And once more she opened out upon him, wreaking upon him all her wrath against fate, all the pent-up fury of two years -- fury which had been denied such fury's usual and natural expression in denunciations of the dead bread-winner.

    The Price She Paid. 1911

  • And once more she opened out upon him, wreaking upon him all her wrath against fate, all the pent-up fury of two years -- fury which had been denied such fury's usual and natural expression in denunciations of the dead bread-winner.

    The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Southampton, is the one man who has never crossed Mrs. Palmer's threshold, or bowed his neck under that splendid fury's yoke.

    London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

  • It seemed as if a fury's strength endowed Miss Tildy's arm.

    Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

  • "Oh, God!" she said, and her eyes flamed like a fury's; "he has cut his throat, and now lies weltering in his own blood."

    Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

  • When the old man with dyed beard heard such words from the slave-girl, he raged with exceeding rage in fury's last stage and said to the broker, "O most ill-omened of brokers, this day thou hast brought to our market naught save this gibing baggage to flout at all who are therein, one after other, and fleer at them with flyting verse and idle jest?"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Ravens feast their brood on carrion, and he -- he Malice I have learned to bear; and I can smile when my fellest enemy drinks to me in my own heart's blood; but when kindred turn traitors, when a father's love becomes a fury's hate; oh, then, let manly resignation give place to raging fire! the gentle lamb become a tiger! and every nerve strain itself to vengeance and destruction!

    The Robbers Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • Ravens feast their brood on carrion, and he -- he Malice I have learned to bear; and I can smile when my fellest enemy drinks to me in my own heart's blood; but when kindred turn traitors, when a father's love becomes a fury's hate; oh, then, let manly resignation give place to raging fire! the gentle lamb become a tiger! and every nerve strain itself to vengeance and destruction!

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • And let their lives'-blood slake thy fury's hunger.

    Edward the Second Christopher Marlowe 1578

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