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Cruelty
"Cruelty" in a Sentence (13 examples)
The girl was at the mercy of his cruelty.
We deplore your cruelty to animals.
The cruelty of the torture in the police station is beyond description.
Cruelty is quite alien to his nature.
I will be reminded of tyranny and cruelty, if Nero is said.
The prisoners were treated with monstrous cruelty.
He belongs to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
He is a man who I supposed was incapable of such cruelty.
He was treated with great cruelty.
They condemned him for his cruelty to animals.
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Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
Gay songwriter behind bars! Needs sincere letter to help ease the tension from cruelties inside the joint.
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