'It is a cruel murder,' she said, 'and who knows but it might be our turn next?'

"We don't want to spoil your wife's business, Hillshe's likely to need it," he said, with cruel official banter.

"It's cruel of you to insult me.

Mr. Walters made no attempt to conceal or extenuate the black page in Hill's past, but he asked the jury to believe that Hill had bitterly repented of his former crime, and would have continued to lead an honest life as Sir Horace Fewbanks's butler, if ill fate had not forged a cruel chain of circumstances to link him to his past life and drag him down by bringing him in contact with the accused man Birchill, whom he had met in prison.

It is too cruel, monsieur, it is too cruel!" Gabrielle's voice vibrated with indignation as she concluded, and Crewe regarded her closely.

It is too cruel, monsieur, it is too cruel!" Gabrielle's voice vibrated with indignation as she concluded, and Crewe regarded her closely.

As for Carmel's looks, they were greatly changed, but beautiful still in spite of the cruel scar left by her fall against the burning bars of her sister's grate.

I had always thought it cruel of Adelaide, one of the evidences of the flint-like streak which ran through her otherwise generous and upright nature.

They little knew how cruel was the test, or what a storm of realisation might have overwhelmed her mind as her eye fell on those accursed walls, peering from their bower of snow-laden, pines.

Others may have shared my feeling; for the glances which flew from her face to mine were laden with an appreciation of the situation, which for the moment drove the prisoner from the minds of all, and centred attention on this tragedy of souls, bared in so cruel a way to the curiosity of the crowd.

This poor woman, losing sleep by the cruel noises purposely raised outside, at last, far in the night, fell into a heavy slumber and "overlaid the child."

With girlish jealousy they laid her devout aspirations at the door of pride, and proceeded to test her professions in a cruel manner.

Dear Mabel!Yet to-day thy brothers came, Taxing me harshly, and in cruel terms, With practising against thy precious life.

She lost all sense of weariness and pain, And with hot tearless eyes still hurried on, Bearing the child girt by its cruel chain, All thought save of her cherish'd burden gone, Fearful alone lest other eyes should guess The feeble thing her longing arms did press.

he that setteth forth upon this quest, And looketh ever back for friend or foe, For cruel laughter, or for mocking jeers, Turns straight to stone like all beside his path; But once upon the summit, at his feet Flows the pure Golden Water, bright and clear.

And so I sought thee e'en at Hades' gate, Charm'd wide its leaves with melody of woe, And dared the grave to keep me from thine arms; I flow'd away upon a stream of song, E'en to dark Pluto's grimly guarded throne, Melting the cruel Cerberus himself, The Parcae, and snake-lock'd Eumenides, To pity of my measureless despair.

The sudden light from heaven which exceeded in brilliancy the torrid midday sun, the voice of Jesus which came to the trembling persecutor as he lay prostrate on the ground, the blindness which came upon himall point to the supernatural; for he was no inquirer after truth like Luther and Augustine, but bent on a persistent course of cruel persecution.

It seemed to her almost cruel to attempt to suppress the truth, but their reception of it went to her heart.

If I must die, O let me chuse my death: Suck out my soul with kisses, cruel maid!

No man complains so much of want, to avoid a subsidy; no man is so importunate in begging, so cruel in exaction; and when he most complains of want, he fears that which he complains to have.

L'ISLE-ADAM, VILLIERS DE. Sardonic tales (Contes cruels)

L'ISLE-ADAM, VILLIERS DE. Sardonic tales (Contes cruels)

This also applied to the Intersigne, which had later been joined to the Contes cruels, a collection of indisputable talent in which was found Vera, which Des Esseintes considered a little masterpiece.

Jamais l'aimable soeur des cruels Pallantides Trempa-t-elle aux complots de ses frères perfides.

Libre des soins cruels où j'allais m'engager, Ma tranquille fureur n'a plus qu'à se venger.