fiery-tongued

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1. artsThat breathes fire; fire-breathing.

   Obey, if you will, the law of the baser passions, - appetite, pride, selfishness, - but know, they will scourge you into realms where the air is hot with fiery-tongued scorpions, that will sting and torment your soul into unutterable agonies!

   1891, Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture Delivered Before The Boston Mercantile Library Association on Its 29th Anniversary, New York: Columbian Publishing Company, page 77

2. figurativelyThat speaks or preaches with zeal, vivid imagery, and uncompromising urgency; vitriolic; acerbic.

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   Ossian survives in him: behold that melancholy retrospect, that gloom, that melodious wail. And especially, as I have said, do his immediate ancestors survive in him, his sturdy, toiling, fiery-tongued, clannish yeoman progenitors: all are summed up here; this is the net result available for literature in the nineteenth century.

   1895, John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs, volume VI, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 59

comparative more fiery-tongued · superlative most fiery-tongued

1. artsBreathing fire.

   He would never again streak fiery-tongued across a midnight sky spreading death and shuddering fear.

   1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 48