Was it that Prada, the Piedmontese, the Italian of the North, the man of conquest, displayed towards his bride the same brutality that he had shown towards the city he had sacked?
Then his fears, his hatred of the brutality of facts at last brought him an increasing desire to work salvation by love.
Then came a loathsome scramble, a scene of nameless brutality and ignominy.
Instead of demanding this information with the brutality of the police, who will doubtless some day become perfect, I take pains to speak to her in the most gracious terms.
Moreover, the moment that this boundless veil, which takes away the natural brutality from the least gesture, is dragged down, woman disappears.
Fancy more editions of La Cigale--who had provided him with more amusement and opportunities for brutality than any ten sane Legionaries!
It had not the inexorablebrutality of primitive passion.
They are skilled only in the duel and, almost immediately, the brutality of opinion, by means of assaults, stops the way to polite combats.
Old Goriot is raving against the brutality of her husband, when Regan adds that there is still a sum to be paid, without which her lover, to whom she has sacrificed everything, will be ruined.
I'm not unhappy," she said, with a brutality of incisiveness which offers the bare fact with no concern for its effect.
Had he, then, saved the lad from the rapids and Silver Tassel's brutality only to have him drag fish out of the jaws of death for Silver Tassel's meal?
And after the first struggle with his unchangeable brutality it had been easier: for into his degenerate brain there had come a faint understanding of the real situation and of her.
It seemed to her, for one fleeting instant, that there was a brutality in his expression that she had never seen before.
His father's wicked blood pulsed in his veins; the final brutality that the North bestows upon those it conquers was upon him.
He said to himself that if he could not conquer the wife, he COULD conquer the mother and he threatened to turn his brutality to you, Wilkie.
God only knows how much I had suffered from his brutality when I at last succeeded in making my escape with Wilkie.
Now that the impression has somehow been conveyed to her mind that her mission is likely to be completely successful, the full brutality of the method by which she has accomplished it bursts upon her mind.
He has talked himself into a condition of such exalted confidence before he reaches the end of this sentence that Jim is conscious of a certain brutality in applying to him the douche contained in his next words.
Has he had the brutality to force her into giving it?
He had to be extremely careful, said Lord Newton at Knutsford last Saturday, because if he made any statement which did not accuse the Germans of brutality he was denounced by many people as pro-German.
The brutality of his master and the harshness of his life led him to nothing very criminal, but only to wrong acts which are despicable by their meanness, rather than in any sense atrocious.
Boissier, contrasting the solicitude of Tacitus and Marcus Aurelius for the infant young with the brutality of Cicero, remarks that in the time of Seneca men discussed in the schools the educational theories of Rousseau's Emilius.
His generous deed was highly lauded, and he knew how to make it tell, setting himself up in the eyes of those who knew him as a living model of paternal devotion, in shining contrast to the brutality of his deserted mistress.
There is abundant evidence in Blue Books and in the overt acts of Germany that war releases and encourages the elementary brutality of the individual which is normally inhibited by the consciousness of social relations.
Even harshness amounting to brutality is condoned if the hero have a jaw of sufficient squareness, and mighty passions just within the limits of control--as witness Jane Eyre's Rochester and his long line of unpleasant followers.
No brutality has been too gross to be related as an absolute truth, of which the name, address, and all possible verification could be given, if desired.
Like the Russian wife who wept for want of her customary thrashing, taking immunity from the stick to mean indifference, these women would rather have brutality with love than no love at all.
The girl had no one else to help her; it would have been brutality to withdraw and leave her to her fate, merely because he just a little feared the effect upon himself of such a meeting.
Women driven mad before the terrible choice of giving up their sons who had fought, or their daughters who had not, to the brutality of the soldiery.
His method is to paint pictures of society as it is, to show the brutality of force and the uselessness of it; to preach the end of government through the repudiation of all military force.
I walked to the slumping figure in the rocker, and with ill-contained brutality demanded: "So this is why you did not bring my clothes!
I could curse the brutality of an age that sanctioned such things; or I could grow doleful over the misery of the poor--fellow.
Her home was in Birmingham; she had been driven away by the brutality of a stepmother; a friend lent her a few pounds, and she came to London with an unfinished novel.
She knows enough of the world to know her own value in it, and she has measured the brutality and the inconsistency which may lie under the most polished exterior.
Composed of men and women actuated by lofty purpose and unafraid to die, the Fighting Groups exercised tremendous influence and tempered the savage brutality of the rulers.
You must accustom yourself to the fact that you are in another world than the one of oppression and brutality in which you have lived.
I met men incoherent with indignation at the brutality of prize-fighting, and who, at the same time, were parties to the adulteration of food that killed each year more babes than even red-handed Herod had killed.
The Church condones the frightful brutality and savagery with which the capitalist class treats the working class.
To him I must talk in the elemental terms of life and death, of food and water, of brutality and cruelty.
He's been up too many a time with charges of man-killin' an' brutality on the high seas.
It was on the last train that I realized to the full of its bitterness the brutality of war as it bludgeons the heart of the non-combatant.
I ventured to speak of Christian influences which should hold men back from the brutality of war.
