1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xiii, in (1967) 55 Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow.
1920 D. H. Lawrence xv. 351 The snow-ridges..had glowed dawn as she crossed the river outwards, they were white–fiery now in the dusk sky as she returned.
2009 G. Gilman 117 The air was full of voices clamoring, hail-sharp; the light, white-fiery, furious.