I started to offer help, but the fierce glare on his face stopped me.

This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the wolf.

Aw, Mama. Who am I? I'm a shy little girl who doesn' t want to ask a bunch of ferocious-looking strangers to let me play with them.

The child was scared of the fierce looking dog.

Until it was the turn of the plump and vicious defendant.