By profession a clerk in a Government office, he was one of those Martyred spirits to whom literature is at once a source of divine joy and of almost intolerable irritation.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Suddenly, when the music had become almost intolerably exciting, when the players seemed possessed, and noise and swiftness to rush together like foes to the attack, the flute wavered, ran up to a height, cried out like a thing Martyred; the violin gave forth a thin scream; on the derbouka the brown fingers of the player pattered with abrupt feebleness; the guitar died away; the little brass discs shivered and fell together.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
He had charged himself with the care of his Martyred brother's children, and Pliny helped him to find a worthy husband for the daughter of Rusticus.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill