“There arose a general cry against the instruments of the tyrant's cruelty, and vengeance was demanded on the delators.”

“The cruelty of the elements must conspire, like pernicious ministers, with the cruelty of arbitrary human will and passions.”

“It is tempting to criticize the trial by ordeal, wager of law and judicial combat for their apparent irrationality and cruelty.”

“His eyes were bright but crafty, and his features denoted both sensuality and cruelness.”

“But to let your soul get twisted from that stance to one in which you can plough down a man in the street is emblematic of a cruelness, a smallness, that one cannot but hope is confined only to the very worst of humanity.”

“Stephen knew he was dying but, rather than spend his last months raging against the cruelness of fate, he went flat out to raise money for charity.”

“There are, according to the American Defense Secretary himself, worse, much worse obscene cruelties, to be revealed.”

“Many regarded the cruelties and barbarities of communist regimes as inherent in communism.”

“If we are not restrained by conventions, traditions or rules we are all capable of grotesque cruelties.”