He cannot be made an unwilling father of timid, diseased, or brutalized children; he is not a financial dependent.
When for that purpose the soldiers laid their hands upon the Nazarene first, a shudder passed through the great concourse; the most brutalized shrank with dread.
London is in the power of hordes brutalized by oppression.
The clergy had exchanged the missal and censer for the battle-axe, and had become secularized and brutalized by the conflict.
If we were to remain a purely agricultural people, land would fall into fewer and fewer hands, and our people become more and more brutalized as the years rolled on.
If he lived, it would be to grow up with his body deformed and dwarfed by unnatural labour and with his mind stultified, degraded and brutalized by ignorance and poverty.
The Priests of Brahma, professing a dark and bloody creed, brutalized by Superstition, united together against Buddhism, and with the aid of Despotism, exterminated its followers.
The great number of flourishing cities which covered those countries had now become miserable villages, and the soil had become barren under the hands of a brutalized population.
No, he wasn't," and Paula without a sign of either fear or abhorrence looked compassionately at the brutalized face that confronted her.
I wondered as I saw him enter with such a humble, frank air, and with a new look of peace that seemed almost to beautify the brutalized face.
Gambling, like war and the chase, seems to be an innate passion with savages; and, sooth to say, it is a vice worthy of them and of their brutalized nature.
The Indians have been brutalizedby a long servitude.
Tracked like wild animals, brutalized by the firewater, and decimated by the sword and Spanish disease, our wandering hordes are but the shadow of a people.
And these very men whom we have corrupted and brutalized by every means, we bring forward as a proof that one cannot deal with criminals except by brute force.
Their teachers are fellows like themselves, only deceived and brutalized two or three years sooner.
And those of the lower classes, exhausted by toil and brutalized of set purpose, are kept in a permanent deception, practiced deliberately and continuously by the higher classes upon them.
Then she took his head tentatively to her shoulder, where he wept like a brutalized child.
The consequence is, that my servants act like spoiled children; but I think that better than for us both to be brutalized together.
Whether it was that the moss was too wet for fuel to cook the meat, or the massacre had brutalized the men into beasts of prey, the Indians fell on the carcass and devoured it raw.
To be frank, I know of one case in the early days of Minnesota fur trade, where the irate fur trader killed and devoured his weak companion, not from famine, but sheer frenzy of brutalized passion.
He wagged his head from side to side, in pitiful confusion of his brutalized senses.
Rufus Dawes was no longer the brutalized wretch who had plunged into the dark waters of the bay to escape a life he loathed, and had alternately cursed and wept in the solitudes of the forests.
A husband might furnish her an excuse; but the Turk is too near a neighbor--or rather she, a single woman widely renowned for beauty, is too tempting to the brutalized unbelievers infesting the other shore of the Bosphorus.
Then the Hegumen's criticism upon the persistence with which she kept her residence here, a temptation to the brutalized unbeliever on the other shore, derived a point altogether new.
He looks like a brute now, but in that case age has brutalized him, for he was cunning at the hulks.
This man was visibly stupid: a long misery at the galleys, a long wretchedness out of them, had brutalized him, etc.
But one was already too brutalized to feel pity at the spectacle; the feeling of humanity had been blown to all the winds.
The experience of those first few weeks of the war had already brutalizedus completely.