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Sentences starting with cruel

Cruel old man, know that I come with claims which even you cannot despise. [5]
Cruel and infinitely happy little woman, filled with compassion, who brought delicacies in the making of which she had spent precious hours, and which Honora could not eat! [9]

Sentences ending with cruel

No, no, they would not be so cruel! [5]
You know me well enough to be aware that, like you, I am reluctant to infringe another's rights, that except in case of necessity I am not cruel. [10]
She had a very fine set of teeth, as Jean Jacques saw mechanically; and subconsciously he said to himself that they seemed cruel, they were so white and regular-- and cruel. [11]
It does seem too cruel! [8]
The first time the young foreigner allowed himself to reproach her, she lifted her beautiful head and, half turning to him, said firmly: "That's just like a man--selfish and cruel! [2]
The truth is, the possession of power by men or associations makes them selfish and generally cruel. [4]
This suggested, however, something a little cruel. [11]
The city was so vast and cruel. [4]
It was a shameful thing and a cruel! [5]
For my mother's sake and my own I desired to live, but the rules he prescribed before my departure were so contradictory to my nature that they seemed unbearably cruel. [10]

Short sentences using cruel

This cruel, dreadful tyranny! [11]
M. How cruel it is! [5]
Such a cruel, heartless charge! [5]
You have a cruel soul. [11]
It was a cruel pain. [5]
It is a cruel expedient. [5]
It was cruel! [8]
It is cruel! [4]
Ah, cruel thought! [11]

Sentences containing cruel two or more times

He preaches cruel sermons in his pulpit, cruel as death, and cold-blooded enough to freeze any mother's blood if nature did not tell her he lied, and then smooths it all over with the first good-looking young woman he can get to listen to him. [6]
She snatched the letter from my hand and searched it up and down and all over, turning it this way and that, and sobbing great sobs, and the tears flowing down her cheeks, and ejaculating all the time, "Oh, cruel, cruel! [5]
Your name means kindness, but you can be cruel, bitterly cruel! [10]

More example sentences with the word cruel in them

The answer to your arguments is to be seen on every side, atheism, hypocrisy, vice, misery, insane and cruel grasping after wealth. [9]
She was so young, and so exquisite, that Fate seemed harsh and cruel in darkening her vision, making pitfalls for her feet. [11]
I am sure you would not be so cruel if you knew that I was aching to see you. [9]
But what madness you were guilty of, what cruel madness! [11]
An' I'd like you to see jest how hard an' cruel this border life is. [13]
He had been wronged in much by his father, and maybe--and this was the cruel part of it--had been unwittingly wronged, alas! [11]
I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
Of course this would make necessary other slight alterations, for no kind-hearted writer would be cruel to his own creations, and expose them to the vicissitudes of the seasons. [4]
They drop a word or a phrase--they do not know how cruel it is--or give a look--they do not know how cold it is--and are gone without a second thought about it; but it sinks into the woman's heart and rankles there. [4]
Hopeless husbands and wives were cast up like driftwood by the cruel, resistless flood of modern civilization--the very civilization which yielded their wealth and luxury. [9]
To-day, which began with such cruel sorrow, will yet have a tolerable end. [10]
When she was with Stanhope such a sacrifice seemed as impossible as it would be cruel, but when she was with Mrs. Bartlett Glow, or alone, the subject took another aspect. [4]
Sonya listened silently with downcast eyes to the countess' cruel words, without understanding what was required of her. [2]
It was attended with cruel suffering and the most injurious results, but it was necessary for me to return to my comfortable winter quarters. [10]
And they are wise: the snow comes early, and, besides, a cruel fog, cold as the grave and penetrating as remorse, comes down out of the near Tyrol. [4]
But the world will be cruel, and the times are threatening. [6]
The cruel anxiety which tortured her on this account had urged her at Prufening to the loud forwardness which hitherto she had always shunned. [10]
The means by which she had intended to destroy him had been transformed into a benefit, and while in the desert he had perceived how often man finally blesses, as the highest gain, what he at first regarded as the most cruel affliction. [10]
The art to which he had gained entrance by so severe a struggle, and on whose soil he had laboured diligently enough, proved, so far as outward recognition was concerned, cruel to the enthusiastic disciple. [10]
Ay, his eye, which had yesterday scorned to look at the multitudes who had hailed his advent, was that of a cruel tyrant. [10]
The man who, when drunk, beat his wife till the blood came, and committed plenty of cruel deeds, trembled, wept, and could even pray with fervent piety, when--which often happened--the frail little creature, shaken by convulsions, seemed at the point of death. [10]
You shall see what it was; for you have not cruel hearts, and you would never guess it. [5]
What their homes were to them, these fellaheen, dragged forth to defend their country, to go into the desert and waste their lives under leaders tyrannous, cruel, and incompetent, his old open life, his innocence, his integrity, his truthfulness and character, were to him. [11]
Magnificence of display went hand in hand with a taste for cruel and barbarous amusements. [4]
The use of water-dressings in surgery completed the series of reforms by which was abolished the "coarse and cruel practice" of the older surgeons, who with their dressings and acrid balsams, their tents and leaden tubes, "absolutely delayed the cure. [3]
Now, William Upson was his name If it's not that, it's all the same He did enlist in a cruel strife, And it caused him to lose his life. [5]
And yet I was cruel to her because you were hurt by her, and because--but you know. [10]
In fact, she was an intellectual person, whom qualities of the heart saved from being disagreeable, as they saved her on the other hand from being worldly or cruel in her fashionableness. [8]
Alice, who discerned very clearly Mrs. Mavick and her ambition, was troubled by Philip's absorption and the cruel disappointment in store for him. [4]
His rage had vented itself; but, if he had seen Li Choo's face an hour after, as he talked to the half-breed woman in the kitchen, he might have had some qualms for his cruel assault. [11]
The youth spoke vehemently in Caesar's defence, and closed with the exclamation, "If he should still keep you in suspense, he would be not only cool and circumspect--" "Then," Cleopatra interrupted, "be nobler, be less cruel, and release your father's friend from these tortures. [10]
He almost made up his cruel mind on the instant that he would never marry her, however bad she might feel. [4]
In spite of untold privations and hardships, of cruel warfare and massacre, these people had toiled over the mountains into this land, and impatient of check or hindrance would, even as Clark had predicted, when their numbers were sufficient leap the Mississippi. [9]
As she lingered unobserved, her eye rested on the touching picture of the two young things clasped in each other's arms, and she overheard the last words of the gentle little creature who had done her such cruel wrong. [10]
That death is unkind, cruel, and unnatural, that kills for living. [5]
Mardiou and your uncle Zeno saw with their own eyes the strange swallows drive away those which had built their nest on the helm of the Antonias, and kill the young ones with their cruel beaks. [10]
Then the cruel, tyrannical baton struck the wood a second time, and---- But what did this mean? [10]
His face restlessly turned to the wall--a vexed, stormy, anxious face and head, scarred by the whip of that overlord more cruel and tyrannous than Time, the Miserable Mind. [11]
A story is told of a condemned man, whom his cruel executioner cast into a prison of ingenious structure. [10]
It was cruel to urge the crippled horses, but it had to be done in order to make Damascus Saturday night. [5]
Don't be cruel to the sensitive natures who find a music in the harmonies of rhythm and rhyme which soothes their own souls, if it reaches no farther. [6]
It seemed cruel to keep that pitiless inscription still staring from the walls after the unhappy wretch had been in his grave five hundred years. [5]
The blood mounted to his head; he desired the interpreter to inform her that she was to hope for no mercy, and inwardly devoted her to a cruel death. [10]
How cruel not to have given us warning, and we could have greeted you as your great fame deserves! [9]
It was hard to associate them with anything cruel or dreadful; and yet they dealt in tales of blood and suffering with a guileless relish that made me almost forget to shudder. [5]
In the mean time he felt the need of some present solace, such as only unqualified worship could give him; a cruel wish to feel his power in some direction where, even if it were resisted, it could not be overcome, drove him on. [8]
While Selene was thus making her way with cruel pain, satisfaction and happiness had visited Arsinoe; for hardly had Selene and Antinous quitted her father's apartments, when Hiram begged her to show him the little bottle which the handsome youth had just given her. [10]
He must go through it, cruel as it was, with the easy self-command which belongs to a gentleman in the most trying social exigencies. [6]
At first she thought it would be cruel to destroy his bright illusions. [10]
It was as though one in armour awaited the impact of a heavy, cruel, overwhelming foe, who suddenly disappeared, and the armour fell from the shoulders, and breath came easily once again. [11]
Not this hatred, this thirst for revenge, this blood, this persecution, and, as their hideous fruit, this terror, these horrible, cruel fears--" Here she was interrupted by the clatter of arms and rapping of hammers which came up from below. [10]
The death of this son doubtless first taught Barbara with what cruel anguish a mother's heart can be visited; but her John had not really died to her. [10]
One day, again, they did an unjust and cruel thing. [11]
To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power, but would also be a cruel and an astounding breach of faith. [7]
It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest, in piercing inclemency. [11]
He called himself the victim of a cruel, inexorable fate, and felt like a bunted animal driven to its last gasp and hearing the dogs and sportsmen fast coming nearer. [10]
The first of the two stories based itself upon an experiment which some thought cruel, even on paper. [6]
But he repelled the thought and merely sunned himself in the pleasurable consciousness--the first during this cruel hour-of holding Kasana and her royal lover in his hand as one holds a beetle by a string. [10]
The way from the station to the Auditorium Hotel was hacked and bruised--so it seemed--by the cruel battle of trade. [9]
In death, whom the poet also calls his sister, he sees no cruel murderer, because she, too, comes from the Most High. [10]
He was only the pitiable victim of his birth and of a cruel fate. [10]
As he handed the pipe to Knife-in-the-Wind, an Indian called Silver Tassel, with a cruel face, said grimly: "Why does Oshondonto travel to us? [11]
And lastly, as the most cruel blow of all, ye slew our queen. [10]
He shuddered at the idea; for if the immortals thought, felt, acted, how terribly his already cruel fate would still develop! [10]
He looked at the foolish little woman with so cruel a flash of the eye that she shrank back. [11]
As soon as the door was closed upon them, Caesar's features lost their cruel look. [10]
I'm angry with the cruel world, which, pursues an independent woman as it never does a man. [5]
Let us suppose the case of a pair of tongs that falls upon a man's foot, causing a cruel hurt. [5]
They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. [2]
There were dreams that tossed and mingled in one whirlpool vision; and then at last came a dream which was so cruel and clear that it froze his senses. [11]
One could see that some genial influence had dominated what was inherently cruel and sinister in him. [11]
He was aware that of late he had been amusing himself with her passion in a way that was not less than cruel, not because he wished to do so, but because he was listless and wished nothing. [8]
Do you think that many of them did not know hunger and want long before that cruel war was over? [9]
But I feel that it is a hard and cruel road--oh, I understand that at least! [11]
He felt instantly that he had made a mistake, had been cruel, though he had not intended it. [11]
She would rather that he had believed everything against her, and had made an open scandal, because then she could have paid any debt due to him by the penalty most cruel a woman can bear. [11]
It was cruel that at the door of the dead or the dying there should be such levity. [11]
I know more than they guess how cruel the world may be to the innocent as to--the other. [11]
But the very tendency to such a consummation--the marked tendency, I fear, of the day--produces, no doubt, cruel suffering. [14]
Flashes of his temper she had known, but she had never seen the cruel, fiendish thing--his anger. [9]
The old religion teaches that the world is cruel for most of us, but if we are obedient and humble we shall be rewarded in heaven. [9]
What it could take from him was easily lost; the relief it promised to afford no power, science, or art here on earth could procure for him--release from cruel suffering and oppressive cares. [10]
You may be sure that some men, even among those who have chosen the task of pruning their fellow-creatures, grow more and more thoughtful and truly compassionate in the midst of their cruel experience. [6]
He was after summat big in experiment for explosives, so the papers said, and so he said himself before he died, to Miss Claridge--ay, 'twas her he deceived and treated cruel, that come to him when he was shattered by his experimenting. [11]
She was horror stricken by the idea of the sudden, cruel end that hung over the young bride, and he replied sadly; "I shall not be able to restrain the wretches; still, no means shall remain untried. [10]
He was a stern man, but not a cruel one, so he permitted his "moles" to lie down on the sand, for the troops would doubtless be a long time in passing. [10]
This is royalty, --stately and cold perhaps: even the mouth may be a little cruel, I begin to perceive, as I think of her; but she wears the purple by divine right. [4]
This grieved her sorely, and she wept bitterly, thinking of the ease of her other son, and resenting the injustice with which blind and cruel Fortune had bestowed her gifts. [10]
Some cruel misunderstanding, some pitiable mistake must have been at work here, and he came upon the right trail speedily enough. [10]
After being anvil so many years, it is pleasant to play hammer; and if that was not always done in a proper and moderate way, people excused themselves on the ground of having experienced a hundred-fold harsher and more cruel treatment from the Spaniards. [10]
She had struggled so hard in these last days to banish all thought of her own happiness, and shield her dear ones from harm, that such selfishness appeared doubly cruel to her. [10]
None that be so good and kind as ye are would do her that cruel hurt. [5]
It seemed to shrivel him up and cow him; and he looked so wounded and so humble after that, that I detested myself for having done the cruel and unnecessary thing. [5]
That her deserter should greet her so after five years of such offence to a woman's self-respect, as might entitle her to become a rebel against matrimony, was too cruel to be borne. [11]
With cruel self-torture she dwelt upon the terrible dread, for she thought she had noticed that the best success often followed when she had expected the worst result. [10]
It was a shame; it was a cruel thing to see. [5]
All conscience and sensibility, I should say,--a cruel worker,--no kind of regard for herself, seems as fragile and supple as a young willow-shoot, but try her and you find she has the spring in her of a steel cross-bow. [6]
Would the jury say that this retributive justice, inflicted by an outraged, and deluded woman, rendered irrational by the most cruel wrongs, was in the nature of a foul, premeditated murder? [5]
How cruel to say that she did not sympathize with her husband! [4]
Love disdained is said to be the mother of hatred, and from the days of Potiphar's wife has often caused cruel vengeance. [10]

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