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Meanings of fiery in English

Characterized by intense emotion.

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Like or suggestive of fire.

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Usage of fiery in English
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The comments stood in contrast to his fiery rhetoric in previous days.
Reuters
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The amendment was put to vote, after a fiery debate, and lost.
Sketches New and Old
3
Three men once sang in the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
The Young Carpenters of Freiberg / A Tale of the Thirty Years' W...
4
The stallion was restless and fiery-eyed; the bull sent forth a bellow.
1492
5
The mist of fiery opal swirled up about the Three; hid them.
The Moon Pool
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The burden has been too heavy for us; the ordeal too fiery.
The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring
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These refugees were in general men of fiery temper and weak judgment.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
8
In China it is used to make a fiery liquor called baijiu.
Reuters
9
He felt a weight in his breast; a fiery spot burned there.
The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
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Perhaps in another second the fiery glow will rise to the sky.
Dame Care
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The sun had gone down to a fiery death in the west.
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
12
The lava blocks-theyseemed to smoulder and reel in the fiery glare.
South Wind
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The sun, fiery a moment ago, was lower in the sky now.
The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
14
Said was so different from him and from her fiery brother, Umar.
Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
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But in the eleventh century the fiery Frank and the warlike Saxon.
The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
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The English are fiery enough-inprint-andready enough to fight-inFleet Street.
The Vultures
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South Africa
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Australia
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United Kingdom
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