Which preposition to use with cruel
You have been cruel to me, and you're too good to him.
He began to see that war had ministers of pain and sorrow hardly less cruel than those dealing death and wounds.
"It's cruel of you to insult me.
Stoddard had never cared for her, he had been cruel in his attitude of kindness.
" "Not so cruel as the woman who for a few pounds sells the happiness of thousands of human beings.
No doubt of her was possible; she could be cruel for the sake of cruelty and loyal for the sake of pride.
Yet in a while he raised his head and spake again: "And when Duke Ivo had wrought his will upon the city, he builded the great gibbet yonder and hanged it full with men cheek by jowl, and left Sir Gui the cruel with ten score chosen men for garrison.
The stern priest, cruel through fanaticism and custom, no longer leads his fellow-creature to the altar to sacrifice him to fictitious gods.
"Who so cruel at times as your too benevolent philanthropist?
So, it would seem, had the majority of the Jews till after the Captivity; and even then the law of divorce seems to have been as indulgent toward the man as it was unjust and cruel toward the woman.
] I am, however, far from believing, that the treatment of the slaves is rendered any more rigorous and cruel by the agitation of the subject of slavery.
'The best thing that could have happened,' thought Hubert; and his thought said, clearly and precisely, 'Yes; it is awful, shocking, cruel beyond measure!'
But I was cruel on purpose to the bird, if I were not spiteful to its mistress.
It means, this house, the decay of an old centre of lifethere's nothing evil or cruel about it, as there is about a castle; and I am not sure that it ought not to be either repaired or removed "'And doorways where a bridegroom trode Stand open to the peering air.'
"Now, now, I seize, I clasp thy charms, And now you burst; ah! cruel from my arms.
"I hope yuh don't mean to make me set here on this bench all night with my hands tied behind me so cruel like?" remarked the man presently, applying his words directly toward Max, as though he, too, had long ago discovered how that energetic young chap seemed to be the "boss of the ranch.
I barked 'em cruel against King Arthur's nose last night.
" "If thou hast not mercy for others," says Sir Thomas Browne, "yet be not cruel unto thyself; to ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies."
Both sides were cruel during the Civil War.