Fiercest [adjective]

He who has attained it grows giddy, and the fiercest winds are summoned to blow him from his eminence.

And I have been passing through one of the fiercest temptations that ever lured a man to the edge of the Pit.

Party spirit ran high; and the contests were among the fiercest and the longest of which there is any record in our history.

St. Augustine says: "The fiercest of all combats is the one for the preservation of chastity, and we must engage in it every day."

The warriors who boasted that they were the strongest and fiercest on the earth, had been made powerless by mice.

The similitude is a calumny on the descendants of Ishmael; the fiercest Bedouin are refined and mild compared with the Apaches.

Before the fire stretched two enormous wolf-hounds, meet hunters for the fiercest bear.

Despite the fiercest fighting, it was impossible to drive them out of part of the second position on the right wing.

One of the fiercest of the tropical tempests was gathering, and was sure to break upon the island in a few minutes.

And yet they have taken the lead in the fiercest insurrections of modern Irish democracy.