"Furore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... now being paid in London for the skins of black or "silver" foxes has created in this country a small furore over the breeding of that color-phase of the red fox. The prices that actually have been obtained, both for skins and for live animals for breeding purposes, have a strong tendency to make people crazy. ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday
... designed to murder Charles II and place James on the throne. From September 1678, when Oates began his series of revelations until the end of March 1681, when the King dissolved at Oxford the third Parliament elected under the Protestant furore excited by the Plot, Shaftesbury and his followers had the upper hand. The King was obliged to propose concessions to the popular will and to offer to agree to limitations on the authority of a popish successor. But Shaftesbury was bent on passing ...
— His Majesties Declaration Defended • John Dryden
... not due at the school to which she was returning till the end of April; and, in Paris, she intended to take a brief course of finishing lessons, to rub off what she called "German thoroughness." She, too, had made a highly successful exit, though without creating a furore like Dove. Since all she did was well done, it was not possible for her to ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... cable was coming up 300 feet a minute. The speed increased as the bell rose out of the depths. It was just one hour and forty-five minutes after the drum began to revolve when the anxious watchers were thrown into a furore of excitement by the appearance of a shining blue point deep beneath. It was the bell! Again there broke forth ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss
... The intellectuals had for once secured public support. They promptly raised their charge for admission from sixpence to one shilling, with an additional sixpence for booking. They advertised the attraction in capital letters and created a furore. The consequence was that the learned and those who assumed the virtue combined to ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... rejected with contempt, in two indecent lines, sung with absolute frankness and producing a furore in the audience. The song ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... for nearly a week Mrs. O'Valley managed to create a furore among her own set. Before she came here she ordered an entire new outfit of clothes—business togs. There were queer hats and shirt waists and things." He laughed at the remembrance. "Then she had to practise getting up early; that took a lot of time. Meanwhile, Miss Sartwell did your ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... broke another rule. She went to Twenty-two on her off duty, and caused a mild furore there. He had been drawing a sketch of her from memory, an extremely poor sketch, with one eye larger than the other. He hid it immediately, although she could not possibly have recognised it, and talked very ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... about the front of the shed, awaiting the reappearance of the girl aviator, whose feat had caused such a furore, this boy had limped from the machine, assisted by his stalwart companion, and had entered the shed by the rear door. It would have astonished the crowd, and delighted the reporters in search of a story, if they could have seen Peggy rush ...
— The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise • Margaret Burnham
... Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, III. Sec. 245. 'Magis temeritate et furore praecipitati ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke |
