Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fierce
Fierce as the flight of Jove’s destroying flame.
—Mark Akenside
Fierce as a Japanese mask.
—Anonymous
Fierce as Jove.
—Anonymous
Fierce as lecherous desire.
—Anonymous
Fierce as a lion of Cotswold.
—Anonymous
Fierce as a mother bird.
—Anonymous
Fierce as a ramcat.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Fierce as those flames which shall consume, at close of all.
—Bhagavad-Gita
Fierce as twenty bloodhounds.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fierce as the shout of victory.
—William Cullen Bryant
Fierce as the blast that tears the northern sky.
—Thomas Chatterton
Fierce as the fallynge thunderbolte.
—Thomas Chatterton
Fiers as leoun.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Fierce as sin.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
Fierce as a whirlwind.
—Homer
Fierce as a tigress plundered of her young.
—Juvenal
Fierce as the hydra.
—William King
Fierce as Achilles was.
—Christopher Marlowe
Fierce as a female Leviathan.
—Owen Meredith
Fierce as mounts the flame in air.
—William J. Mickle
Fierce as a comet.
—John Milton
Fierce as ten furies.
—John Milton
Fierce as a turkey-cock.
—James Montgomery
As fierce as the Pentland Firth.
—Scottish Proverb
Fierce … as whetted scythe.
—John Ruskin
As ferce and as cruell as the feende of hel.
—John Skelton
Fierce as a famished wolf.
—Robert Southey
Fierce as hauke in flight.
—Edmund Spenser
Fierce as a blast of hate from hell.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fierce as the fervid eyes of lions.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fierce as flaming fire.
—Torquato Tasso
Fierce as aqua fortis.
—John Tatham
Fierce, as powers at bay.
—Bayard Taylor
Fierce as wolves.
—Leo Tolstoy