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Sentences ending with cruelty

I have often wondered that Hogarth did not add one more picture to his four stages of Cruelty. [6]
To him Davout was not merely a French general, but a man notorious for his cruelty. [2]
And the policy towards it could not have been much worse, either to impress it with a respect for authority or to win it by conciliation; it has been a strange mixture of untimely concession and untimely cruelty. [4]
But what distressed the princess most of all was her father's irritability, which was always directed against her and had of late amounted to cruelty. [2]
It was, however, the hardness of resentment, and not of cruelty. [11]
She, too, knew that tragedy of the tenements, of the poor, its sordidness and cruelty. [9]
He never forgot that his own trouble could and would have been avoided had it not been for woman's vanity and consequent cruelty. [11]
Well, I've escaped that fate, because this was a good ship, and all the officers knew their business, and did it without cruelty. [11]
Human nature is such that they resented it, and cried out aloud against his cruelty. [9]
And Honora, as she glanced at her during the lessons, often wondered if she realized the appalling extent of her cruelty. [9]

Short sentences using cruelty

What cruelty to her! [11]

Sentences containing cruelty two or more times

But she laid the blame not at his door; she rather shrank with inner bitterness from the cynical cruelty of nature, which, in deforming the body, with a merciless cruelty had deformed a noble mind. [11]
There entered her soul that night a sense of that which is the worst cruelty of all--the cruelty of selfishness. [9]
He now understood for the first time all the cruelty of his rejection of her, the cruelty of his rupture with her. [2]

More example sentences with the word cruelty in them

She could sue you for cruelty and desertion, and the damages would be heavy. [11]
She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man's tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his-- She paused, and did not say the word. [11]
The mere death would have been cruelty enough, without overloading it and emphasizing it with that score of harsh and wanton details. [5]
Indeed, with a woman of her fearlessness and honesty--and above all, her intuition,--he felt the cruelty of his position keenly. [9]
Where Mr. Singleton was concerned, Patty, the kindest of creatures, was cruelty itself. [9]
He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruelty with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself. [2]
From that day to this I have been a devoted and hard-working member of the heaven-born institution, the International Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Authors, and now I am laboring with Carnegie's Simplified Committee, and with my heart in the work . [5]
He was believed to be a devoted vivisectionist; he certainly had methods of cruelty, masterly in their ingenuity. [11]
It was some time before he could collect his thoughts to any purpose; but when he did, he clinched his fists as he recalled Caesar's malignant cruelty in forcing him away from his family. [10]
The sight of their great bodies and their red, sullen faces brought home to me the cruelty of life. [9]
The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness. [2]
You can pity the bird which is shut into a cage too small for it, or the mule which breaks down under too heavy a load, and the cruelty which hurts them rouses your indignation. [10]
It is possible that there was in him also a strain of cruelty, undeveloped but radical. [11]
Fierce and tenacious, steel in the cruelty of his desires, fearful in the havoc he had wrought, could he be subdued? [9]
There was a sinister droop to the eyelids, a suggestion of cruelty about the mouth; but there was more of good-nature and passive strength than either in the general expression. [11]
On the other ships there have been terrible cruelty and offence. [11]
A terror, a shame, a dreadful cruelty entered into him, but he was still and numb, and his tongue was thick. [11]
On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. [5]
Janet did not relish her enthronement as a heroine, she deplored and even resented her mother's attitude toward her father, which puzzled her; for the studied cruelty of it seemed to belie her affection for him. [9]
Inflicting, we are prone to cruelty, as you have seen a schoolmaster begin punishment with tears, grow angry at the shrinking back under his cane, and give way to a sudden lust of torture. [11]
Then the pirate's promised bride lowered her voice again, and did not raise her tones until she saw in imagination the fulfilment of the judgment which she was calling down upon the man who had torn her heart with such pitiless cruelty. [10]
He should hear--nay, perhaps he should see--that she was still desired, in spite of the theft which he had committed, in spite of the cruelty with which Fate had destroyed the best treasure that it had generously bestowed. [10]
In hers were only the pity of life, the sadness, the cruelty of misfortune, and friendliness for him. [11]
It is now only cruelty to hide the truth, harsh to continue a friendship which will only appal her in the end. [11]
This was the one Jerseyman for whom he had a profound hatred, this youth with the slow, cold, watery blue eye, a face that never wrinkled either with mirth or misery, the square-set teeth always showing a little--an involuntary grimace of cruelty. [11]
Then all at once her thoughts reverted to Elise, and some latent cruelty in her awoke. [11]
But the sight of your lover's agonies, his indignation, his anger, madden you and you get the lust of cruelty. [11]
Hers was one of those volcanic natures, defying calculation and ordinary conceptions of life; having the fullest capacity for all the elementary passions--hatred, love, cruelty, delight, loyalty, revolt, jealousy. [11]
That the mightiest of the mighty could not escape pain seemed to her like a mockery and a spiteful cruelty of Fate, and at the early mass that day she had prayed fervently that Heaven might grant him recovery. [10]
Oh, the cruelty of that decree! [9]
The ignorant cruelty of its convention! [9]
By a refinement of cruelty she receives no benefit whatever from the missionaries who are sent out by--what to her must seem a new name for Tantalus--the American Board. [4]
The metallic glare of Charley's eye-glass seemed to give an added cruelty to the words. [11]
Merely the cruelty of an economic system based on ruthless competition. [9]
I will know nothing of what happens to Phanes, for I hate cruelty and would not be forced to stand in horror of my own son. [10]
It was cruelty not to reassure her. [11]
His cruelty was not as that of the roughs of Seven Dials or Belleville, but it was pitiless. [11]
For there is no such cruelty as the waking of anybody out of a morning nap. [4]
A joke should never be pushed to cruelty. [9]
Of the tenderness, nay, of the pity and cruelty of that parting, I have no power to write. [9]
The cruelty of murdering prisoners is not imputed to him as a fault. [2]
The father and mother did not speak of the matter to their son again, but a few days later the countess sent for Sonya and, with a cruelty neither of them expected, reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas and for ingratitude. [2]
His lengthened absence might be inevitable, it might be fate, but could he not see the bitter cruelty of it? [11]
But she kept me standing an unconscionable time without a word, which on the whole was cruelty, while she played over some of Dibdin's ballads. [9]
The thought of living in darkness until the end of his life seemed unendurable, especially as now all the horrors which, hitherto, had only visited him in times of trial during the night assailed him with never-ceasing cruelty. [10]
There was no little daring, as there was cruelty, in thus torturing a man whose life had been broken by Doltaire's associate. [11]
The red, sullen lips stamped the delicate, fanatical face with cruelty and barbaric indulgence, while yet there was an intensity in the eyes that showed the man was possessed of an idea which mastered him --a root-thought. [11]
And do you know, not one of these collegians has had the cruelty to ask me how I came by my new name. [5]
I confess, though, it struck me unpleasantly at the time, that this fresh, high-hearted creature should be in familiar conversation with a woman who, it seemed to me, was the incarnation of cruelty. [11]
She too, even in her cruelty, seemed to have a sense of wild justice which disregarded any incidental suffering. [11]
And she stared, in a kind of fascination that increased the ache in her heart; at the ugliness and cruelty of the twentieth century. [9]
They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness. [5]
She feared for her brother who was in it, was horrified by and amazed at the strange cruelty that impels men to kill one another, but she did not understand the significance of this war, which seemed to her like all previous wars. [2]
I bare my heart to you, repenting, and you mock it, torture it, with your undying hate and cruelty. [11]
Yes, she might have been his wife by this time, if he himself had not proved to her that she could never gain such power over him as would control his sudden fits of fury, or obtain mercy for any victim of his cruelty. [10]
In agony they had been opened to the panorama of sorrow and suffering, of passion and evil; and what she beheld now as life was a vast and terrible cruelty. [9]
That is a great cruelty to nine out of ten of the man's readers. [5]
His body bent forward, and his fingers spread out in a spasm of hatred, then clinched with the stroke of a hammer on his knees, and again opened and shut in a gesture of loathsome cruelty. [11]
Horror, aversion, loathing for that man to whom everything but power, cruelty, and cunning, was as nothing, left no room for fear or pity, or even the least shade of self-reproach for having aroused in him a desire which she could not gratify. [10]
I asked forgiveness for my cruelty on that memorable morning I had last seen her. [9]
You are all for logic and perfection in government, and to get it you go mad, and France is made a shambles--" "War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle," interrupted Grandjon- Larisse. [11]
He gave a fierce exclamation and made a gesture of cruelty. [11]
Was there some fibre of cruelty in him, some evil in this influence he had over her? [11]
The cruelty was evident to him as she bit in two the thread for the waistcoat she was mending, and then plied her needle again. [11]
Murel was his equal in boldness; in pluck; in rapacity; in cruelty, brutality, heartlessness, treachery, and in general and comprehensive vileness and shamelessness; and very much his superior in some larger aspects. [5]
What is this drama and spectacle, that has been put forth as history, but a cover for petty intrigue, and deceit, and selfishness, and cruelty? [4]
He had no doubt that he was commended to the kindest treatment by her brother; but Tymor "diverted all this to the worst of cruelty. [4]
The sight indeed cut her to the heart, and yet she was thankful for it; for the first time the reckless cruelty of that laughing monster was evident in all its naked atrocity. [10]
There was dementia, cruelty, stark purpose in his eyes, in every movement. [11]
Traditions of Indian cruelty were still fresh in western Massachusetts. [4]
This climax of cruelty or aberration has parted us forever. [10]
It is the cruelty of wicked selfishness. [11]
There was no cruelty in the nature of Patience, and she made prisoners of neither birds nor squirrels, but cunning cages here and there held most lifelike counterfeits of their willing captives. [4]
I have enough cruelty in me, enough selfishness and will, to be a ruler, and yet I have never held an office in my life. [11]
This spy, whose cruelty and cunning were universally feared, might do him a serious mischief, and he therefore did not tell his sister, to whom the name of Zminis was well known, who the listener was. [10]
With a vulgar cruelty and cowardice he was holding the Governor by the arm, hoping thereby to protect his own person from the British fire. [11]
He could not comprehend her cruelty. [9]
In the French circle of Helene and Rumyantsev the reports of the cruelty of the enemy and of the war were contradicted and all Napoleon's attempts at conciliation were discussed. [2]
But when the certainty came, the enormity and cruelty of the dismissal aroused her indignation. [4]
But he brought Captain Paul before the vice-admiralty court of that place, charging him with gross cruelty, and this proceeding had delayed the brigantine six months from her homeward voyage, to the great loss of her owners. [9]
After all, your belief is a pitiless one; for, as I have tried to say, the man has not himself alone to consider, but those to whom his living is a perpetual shame and menace and cruelty insupportable--insupportable! [11]
He felt that behind this woman's outward cruelty and varying moods there was something working that perhaps might be trusted, something in Luke's interest. [11]
I know that, because each man told what he would have done, individually; and such a medley of strange and unheard-of inventions of cruelty you could not conceive of. [5]
You were not aware that your mother had divorced your father for crime against marital fidelity and great cruelty. [11]
I wondered now and then if Doltaire were not really putting acid on the barber's bare nerves for some other purpose than mere general cruelty. [11]
Yes, I said, an admirable Association it was, and as much needed as the one for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. [6]
It would be against the interest of society, all its instincts of justice, and the height of cruelty to an individual criminal to put him in prison without limit unless all the opportunities were afforded him for changing his habits radically. [4]
Beautiful things should adorn them; no man should set his hand in cruelty on a woman--after she is his. [11]
At length, with a sigh, he said, almost inaudibly: "So it was and so it is: The Greek oppressed my people with arbitrary cruelty as if we were dogs; the Moslem, too, is a stranger, but he is just. [10]
Was ever such a refinement of cruelty practised before? [9]
It is not a question of right or wrong, of kindness or cruelty, but of general expediency and inevitableness. [11]
There was also a latent cruelty in her face which only a student of human nature could have seen quickly. [11]
She sank into a chair, and a strange cruelty came into her eyes, something so hard that it looked grotesque in the beautiful setting of her pain-worn, exquisite face. [11]

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