something fierce

At those times, when she gazed upon it, then it was that something fierce and terrible began to mingle with her love.

Meantime my mountain sickness tuned up something fierce, and I sat down on a big rock to wait for it to ease down.

The climbing's easy enough on bolts and braces, but it's something fierce the air you breathe.

Little rocks and boulders, little chunks of slate, make the coal man's fortune something fierce and great.

Humanity has been on the big kill, with the result that the tablets of Moses have been busted up something fierce.