Her second, which she hid even from herself, was to discover why he had refused, with a certain fierce decision, her company as far as Selford Junction, where, ever since he was a little boy bound for his first school, she-his mother-had always gone with him when there had come the hard moment of saying good-bye.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
"I have met with many a sore cut from fortune, Repton," said he, in the fierce tone that was most natural to him; "the nearest and dearest to me not the last to treat me harshly.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
It was sure fierce, there, for a few minutes.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower