14 Metaphors for cruel

What was called law was more cruel than war: it was death without the opportunity for defense and with the hypocrisy of the forms of justice added.

Ah! cruel were the strokes that rained upon that foaming flank!

Cruel is the assassins hand

"Cruel was the spirit-power thou gavest Fatal, O Apollo, was thy love!

Cruel and miserable was the way in which you led your soldiers into the towns; shameful was the pillage in every city, of gold and silver, and above all, of wine.

Cruel was the work of dismantling that had gone on during the night.

He was killed out of jealousy by Duchô'mar, and when Duchômar told Morna and asked her to marry him she replied, "Thou art dark to me, Duchômar; cruel is thine arm to Morna.

" "The most cruel is not his loss," said the father, "it is that I contributed to his death.

More than once, as he was walking through the woods, his heartbeat and his face flushed; there, beyond the trees lived his wife, his darling, from whom a fate more cruel than death had parted him.

Cruel indeed had been the pace which Nash maintained, yet they had never been able to overhaul the flying piebald of Anthony Bard.

The rocks were more cruel than imagination could conceive,sometimes pointed and sharp like knives, sometimes smooth and upright as a wall with no hold for the climber, sometimes moving under the touch, with stones that rolled and crushed the bleeding feet; and though the solid masses were distinguishable from the lighter darkness of the air, yet it could only be in groping that the travellers by that way could find where any foothold was.

Too often the squaws and pappooses fell victims of the vengeance that should have come only on the warriors; for the whites regarded their foes as beasts rather than men, and knew that the squaws were more cruel than others in torturing the prisoner, and that the very children took their full part therein, being held up by their fathers to tomahawk the dying victims at the stake.

'It's just as cruel as plenty of other sports, and no more,' he said, as if apologizing for the entire male sex.

'This is the work of the man whose love is more cruel than hate,' I thought.

14 Metaphors for  cruel