"Furiousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... embraced and kissed him, saying, "O soul, that knows how to disdain, blessed be she that bore thee! Arrogant, truly, upon earth was this sinner, nor is his memory graced by a single virtue. Hence the furiousness of his spirit now. How many kings are there at this moment lording it as gods, who shall wallow here, as he does, like swine in the mud, and be thought no better of by the world!" "I should like to see him smothering in it," said ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... find a lack of truth in those about you, consider whether it may not arise from the furiousness of your own temper which scares truth away from you: and reflect how fearful a part the angry man may have in the sin of those falsehoods which immoderate fear of him gives rise to. Such, I am afraid, is the tyrannous nature of the human heart that we not only ...
— The Claims of Labour - an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed • Arthur Helps
... I but once lay hands upon the slave, That thus hath robb'd me of my dearest jewel, I'll rend the miscreant to a thousand pieces, And gnash his trembling members 'twixt my teeth, Drinking his live-warm blood to satisfy The boiling thirst of pain and furiousness, ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various |
