The wild hills and wilder tribes of Wales and Yorkshire offered far fiercer resistance.
They thus corresponded, at any rate in some measure, respectively to the fiercer and milder aspects of the dog-tribe.
The politics of the situation engenderedfiercer hatred than religion.
But this treaty, in spite of its apparent stability, led in a few years to a fiercer struggle; for in 1258 the Florentines complained that Siena had infringed its terms by giving refuge to the Ghibellines they had expelled, and on the refusal of the Sienese to yield to these just remonstrances both states made extensive preparations for war.
At the diet of Piotrkow, 1558-1559, the onslaught of the szlachta on the clergy was fiercer than ever, and they even demanded the exclusion of the bishops from the senate.