It had been first gnawingly, then fiercely, present while she laughed and talked at the table with an effervescence no more natural than that pumped into artificially charged wine, and she had needed no death's-head to sober her against too abandoned a gaiety at that feast.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
There is no sorrow that a child can bear, keener and more gnawingly bitter than this.
"Daisy"
Elizabeth Wetherell