She sat silent and very red, with drooping eyelids, thinking her brother horribly cruel for thus publishing her foolishness.

If I had not been tingling with anger against Lisa, who had seemed to enjoy saying needlessly cruel things to me, perhaps I would have been utterly discouraged when she pricked the bubble of my hope.

" "It seems to me," observed Patsy, "that your story is unnecessarily cruel, Mr. Werner.

It's hideously cruel!

" Isak asked: "Wasn't he terribly cruel himself, then?" "Him!" exclaimed Inger, and told how kind he had been to her herself; it was he who had got another doctor to operate on her mouth and make a human being of her.

He had deemed her deliberately cruel, ungenerous, bitter.

This was a murderous work, and in doing it the Romans became excessively cruel, but it had to be done by some one before you could expect to have great and peaceful civilizations like our own.

With all these feminine propensities, she is very amiable, and her case is indeed singularly cruel and unjust.

They were personally cowardly, as their own chronicles declare; querulous, passionate, prone to unmanly tears; prone, as their writings abundantly testify, to scold, to use the most virulent language against all who differed from them; they were, at times, fearfully cruel, as evil women will be; cruel with that worst cruelty which springs from cowardice.

Their punishments are invariably cruel.

Jocken is a notoriously cruel man.

It seemed to her inexpressibly cruel that people must grow old and weak and desolate; it seemed monstrous.

Life could not be so utterly cruel..."

"A man in the neighborhood of Courtland, Alabama, by the name of Puryear, was so proverbially cruel that among the negroes he was usually called 'the Devil.'

It was horrid beyond words, lewd and savage and impious, and desperately cruel.

We say at least equally so; for if the habitual state of feeling towards that class be unmerciful, it must be unspeakably cruel, relentless and malignant when provoked; if its ordinary action is inhuman, its contortions and spasms must be tragedies; if the waves run high when there has been no wind, where will they not break when the tempest heaves them!

E.B. Kennedy, whose tragic death ineffaceably branded the Cape York blacks as remorselessly cruel, came to Australia early in life, and was appointed a Government surveyor in 1840.

"'Twould be downright cruel, the poor critter's sick and feeble.

Whilst stopping at a plantation on the east bank of the Mississippi, between Natchez and New Orleans, for the purpose of making sale of some of the articles with which the boat was freighted, he and his fellow boatmen saw a shockingly cruel punishment inflicted on a couple of slaves for the repeated offence of running away.

There is something intolerably cruel in this disdainful denial of a common humanity pursuing these wretches even when they are hid beneath the earth.

The King, a blunt, straightforward man, showed the Emperor a pity involuntarily cruel.

The darkness which to her was so welcome washad she but guessed itinfinitely cruel too, for it hid the look of triumph, of rapacity, of satisfied ambition which at her selfless surrender had involuntarily crept into Marmaduke's eyes.

It is careless of God, not malignantly cruel, nor deliberately atheistic, but selfish with a sort of self-absorption which is often, very gracious in its forms and infidel with a mere forgetfulness of God.

It would be manifestly cruel and clearly unnecessary to describe the forces which impelled the psychic wave of suggestion that inundated the schooleven to the youth of the "B" class, with his head under the desk, looking for a penciland gave every demon there gleeful knowledge that the teacher had nabbed a note and would probably read it aloud.

And as to stock, he had no idea of any more attention to them than is common in the ordinarily cruel and neglectful habits of the South.