I know it-I see it-all you can say, all that you are saying at this moment, is fifty times more forcibly echoing within my own heart, and repeating in fitful sentences: 'A ruined man-a broken fortune-a mad attachment-a life of struggle, difficulty, and failure!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
It was doubtless from the mind dwelling so forcibly on Miss Martin's perilous life that the old woman's apprehensions had assumed this palpable form, and thus invented the very images which should react upon her with terror.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
He held it in a firm, fierce grasp until she forcibly withdrew it.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey