a. Having eyes glowing as with fire.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., IV. i. 114.
To the fire-eyd Maid of smoakie Warre, | |
All hot, and bleeding, will wee offer them. |
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 roard. |
1602. Marston, Antonios Rev., V. v. Wks. 1856, I. 140.
Ant. Now therefore pittie, piety, remorse, | |
Be aliens to our thoughts; grim fier-eyd rage | |
Possess us wholly. |
1823. Moore, Fables, 137.
Musical flint-millsswiftly playd | |
By elfin handsthat, flashing round, | |
Like certain fire-eyed minstrel maids, | |
Gave out, at once, both light and sound. |
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.