When she did this, Ariel hugged her knees and rocked on the ground beside her, singing to herself charms against the spells of Sycorax: her antidote to the old woman's venom, her hopes for a different life far away from the ferocious spirit of her crooked mother.

Muir was a moon moth, a ferocious flying spirit Luna's magician father had tamed for her before his death.

But, for all the innocence of the expression, a ferocious spirit seemed to emanate from him.

The men were in ferocious good spirits after the fight, and there was a good deal of laughter and joking.

But for all their seeming extravagance and ferocious decorative spirit, these works never become excessive or incoherent.