fierce-spirited

Updated: May 18, 2025

And they brought with them that wonderful air which belongs only to them the air that dwells among the dunes in the solitary places, that is like the cool touch of Liberty upon the face of a man, that makes the brown child of the nomad as lithe, tireless, and fierce-spirited as a young panther, and sets flame in the eyes of the Arab horse, and gives speed of the wind to the Sloughi.

Robert Smythe Hichens - The Spell of Egypt