Read full poem →Did Milton's prose, O Charles! thy death defend?
A furious foe unconscious proves a friend.
On Milton's verse did Bentley comment? Know,
Dictionary Entry
Feeling great anger; raging; violent.
In a Sentence
“a furious animal; parent furious at their child's behaviour”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. furiouspace furiousattack furious
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Poetry examples for “furious”
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Read full poem →Say, will ye bless the bleak Atlantic shore,
Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more?
Read full poem →Barney moved forward and suddenly the cat leaped. It was a furious
blur of white and hissing, claws and teeth. Barney backed off and the cat
Read full poem →By things brimful of hate, my kith and kin,
Furious that I should keep
Their forfeit power to weep,
Read full poem →And fill the ghastly boundlessness of space.
The furious power,
To soft growth twice constrain'd in leaf and flower,
Read full poem →The promise of the great foundation among the Hurons
was, however, cut short by the furious attacks of the Iro-
quois. In July, 1648, the chief town of the Hurons was
Read full poem →And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
- The princes applaud with a furious joy:
And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy;
Read full poem →And then at furious speed he rode
Along the Niger's bank;
Read full poem →Waves trough, rebound, and furious boil again,
Like plunging monsters rising underneath,