a. Having eyes glowing as with fire.

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1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., IV. i. 114.

            To the fire-ey’d Maid of smoakie Warre,
All hot, and bleeding, will wee offer them.

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1601.  Downfall Earl of Huntington, IV. i., in Hazl., Dodsley, VIII. 178.

        Anon comes forth the fire-eyed dreadful beast,
And with a heart-amazing voice he roar’d.

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1602.  Marston, Antonio’s Rev., V. v. Wks. 1856, I. 140.

          Ant.  Now therefore pittie, piety, remorse,
Be aliens to our thoughts; grim fier-ey’d rage
Possess us wholly.

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1823.  Moore, Fables, 137.

        Musical flint-mills—swiftly play’d
  By elfin hands—that, flashing round,
Like certain fire-eyed minstrel maids,
  Gave out, at once, both light and sound.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 64. Only at rare intervals did the young soul burst-forth into fire-eyed rage, and, with a Stormfulness (Ungestüm) under which the boldest quailed, assert that he too had Rights of Man, or at least of Mankin.

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