She felt like a poor insect caught in the entangling meshes of a cruel Fate.
The cruel man once more caught hold of her roughly by the shoulder and began to beat her again.
All these cruel phantom shapes arose to haunt the unhappy woman with renewed poignancy, sharpened by the agony of repression which her mother-love had been enduring for the past hour.
It is now impossible to change my husband's cruel purpose," she said to herself aloud.
Illustration: Gunbei had watched the execution of his cruel order from the veranda.
He drew his arm protectingly around her, and said gently: "Poor child; it is cruel to make you suffer so.
I am glad I have you safe under my own roof, where no more cruel injustice can assail you.
Mrs. Grayson was not a cruel woman, far from it, but she was strangely weak and worldly.
Oh, Percy is cruel to subject her tender soul to such torturing associations!
It seemed as if the whole place had been given over to the cruel glare of sunshine and the persevering impertinence of flies.
Its people are sheltered from many of the cruel winds of winter, and even the sturdy Bretons cannot be quite indifferent to the stern blast that comes from the East laden with ice and snow.
As she went, the shadows lifted and changed with a cruel uprising that told her the end was near.
Days of cruel alternation passed, and we were continually standing with our faces turned upward to the sky in the hope of espying some bit of azure among the thick clouds which crowded overhead.
Daily, soldiers would come to me with tales of incredible treatment, with their bodies livid from thecruel and fierce blows of the Austrians.
Italian aviators from whom it was impossible to find a refuge in the cruel ground.
At last becoming resigned to the cruel reality, giving no thought to the salvation of any of our belongings, since even the dearest personal thing lost all significance when the entire country was in danger he decided to leave.
The cruel irony with which Mr. Timm appealed to that sense of justice and equity of which she had boasted all her life, and of which she after all had nothing but the outward appearance, seized her like a hot iron.
For a long time it remained uncertain whether life or death would be the end, and when at last the cruel conflict was decided in favor of life, death only yielded after having marked his victim unmistakably forever.
The privy councillor pressed his trembling hands upon his eyes and groaned loud, like one who is suffering cruel torture.
Melitta had said this with a low and sad but yet firm voice, and Oldenburg felt that it would be cruel to press her further.
They were cast into dungeons, where they were abandoned to the mercies of cruel gaolers, and where they had the melancholy satisfaction of embracing the barons and knights made prisoners in the last crusade.
Amidst such warm debates the minds of both parties became daily more exasperated, and the most cruel discord thus prevailed among the Christians before war was declared against the infidels.
The war against the Albigeois was more cruel and more unfortunate than the crusade directed against the nations of Prussia.
One circumstance, of which they were ignorant, would have increased the security and joy of the Christian knights if they had known of it; Negmeddin, after having struggled for a long time against a cruel malady, was at length dead.
A barbarous conqueror, a fierce and cruel tyrant, he reigned, or rather he spread terror, over Argos and the isthmus of Corinth.
The enthusiasm for the crusade was communicated to only a small number of warriors, amongst whom history names the count de Montfort, who afterwards conducted the cruel war against the Albigeois.
It was wise to make peace at this moment, in order to prepare for fresh contests, for new wars, perhaps much more cruel than that which they had now an opportunity of terminating with so much glory to the Mussulman arms.
Massacre of the garrison of Jaffa—St. Martin—Causes of the failure of this crusade, and its mischievous consequences—Cruel character of Henry VI pp.
To make it liquorish, he has got all the advertisements about runaway slaves, sales of niggers, cruel mistresses and licentious masters, that he could pick up.
Blackness advances her banner over this cruel altercation, and he droops and swoons beneath its folds.
Thus far uncovering his shame, in that cruel plight they had abandoned him, leaving stark naked his in vain indignant chest to the defilements of the birds, which for untold ages had cast their foulness on his vanquished crest.
Now cruel father and mother have both let go his hand, and the little soul-toddler, now you shall hear his shriek and his wail, and often his fall.
His refined nature could see nothing mirthful in the cruel punishment inflicted upon the boy because he did a kindness to a stranger of another race.
He may not be a pleasant neighbor, but he would not dare to live away from his tribe, if he was as cruel as the Shawanoes or Hurons.
The subsidiary purpose of the conference was to consider the means of emancipating the Báb from His cruel confinement in Chihríq.
Despite the cruel captivity to which its Author had been subjected, the stupendous claims He had voiced had been proclaimed by Him before a distinguished assemblage in Tabríz, the capital of Ádhirbayján.
It marks the opening phase in a series of banishments, ranging over a period of four decades, and terminating only with the death of Him Who was the Object of that cruel edict.
A mason finds the moss-grown wall of stone Built by the cruel Decius, strong and high, And knowing not it is a sepulchre, He quarries it to build a palace wall.
No cruel heats nor chilling blasts invade, But the sweet quietude of twilight shade Brings ever to the mind a holy calm.
Cruel little wretches," said Pamela, "but it's the same with us older children.
Oh," cried Pamela, "you are cruel to the girl I once was.
Now,' I thought, 'having learned how cruel a thing a snub is, will she be kind?
My father is Timur, once the mighty King of Astrakhan--the cruel Sultan of Taschkent drove us out of our own country.
False Turandot, Malicious, cunning, cruel Turandot, Soon as the morning dawns, will have you murdered.
Are the sacrifices made By which we send up prayers to Providence To teach this most unhappy man to solve Our cruel daughter's riddles?
Most cruel Princess, does it not offend you To know the heart still beating that has dared To love you?
And that one can only be she whom I have so deeply injured, whom I fought with as frantic, relentless, and cruel weapons as ever I used against a foe of my own sex.
I shut my eyes to it as long as I could, and then Truth came with all her cruel tools and pried them open.
In his short experience grown people had a cruel way of disappearing.
Jan watched her sister's face and again felt that cruel constriction of the throat that holds back tears.
My father inclined to forgiveness, but my mother was pitiless; her dark blue eye froze me; she fulminated cruel prophecies: "What should I be later if at seventeen years of age I committed such follies?
This dread may perhaps explain several other peculiarities in the character which the cruel years of exile had developed.
I might have been saved if some good friend had then repeated to me her cruel comment on my relations with Madame de Mortsauf.
What poet will sing the sorrows of the child whose lips must suck a bitter breast, whose smiles are checked by the cruel fire of a stern eye?
I described to her in feverish language many cruel details which I have here spared you.
Either that must be so, or God is not, and our life is no more than a cruel jest.
Artists and poets are not the only ones who suffer; men who work for their country, for the future destiny of the nations, enlarging thus the circle of their passions and their thoughts, often make for themselves a cruel solitude.
Very good,--so be it; but all the same it is intolerable, and causes much cruel anxiety to one who loves you.
At such cruel moments the count's air of superiority was supreme.
The countess had trod each round of the ladder of pain; but, for that very reason, the kindest of women was now as cruel as she was once beneficent.
To tell a poor man that he may obtain redress in the court of King's Bench, what is it but a cruel mockery, calculated to render the pang more poignant, which it would pretend to alleviate?
Her inclination was to soften the blow, yet she knew that could only be a cruel kindness.
He must be put away, poor old beggar; it's cruel to keep him alive.
Caracalla was cruel and vicious, and displayed no capacity for governing.
Cowardly, cruel and sensual, he gave himself up to a life of pleasure and left the conduct of the government in the hands of a succession of favorites, who used their power to further their own interests.
If thus her lot of sorrow have impressed Grief and resentment on a stranger's breast, How must he hear the cruel tale of death, He who in these sad vales first drew his breath!
A little smile of triumph played upon his beautiful cruel face, a little light danced within his cold eyes and ran down the yellow beard.
Thus the man who did not hesitate to plot and to execute the cruelslaughter of unoffending men cowered beneath the fancied echo of a dead woman's voice!
It is a grand sport, though the pity of it is that it should be a cruel one.
Her determination was as crushing as the cruel necessity that dictated it.
This was scarcely probable, it is true, but it might be so, and however cruel suspense may be, it is at least less absolutely crushing than the dead weight of certainty.
That embrace was the outward sign of his cruel mastery, and she struggled no more, mentally or physically.
The cold eyes fell upon John with a glance of recognition, and something like a smile began to play around the corners of the finely cut cruel mouth.
I heard it all, cruel murderer that you are," said Bessie, lifting her head for the first time.
Would she still live on, and love and suffer elsewhere, or was it all a cruel myth?
You don't know how I loathe him, with his handsome bad face and his cruel eyes.
Is it not a most cruel and unnatural thing that a father should sell his own children into slavery?
Become the property of the latter by the hasty gift of Frederick, how different was the lot of Samboe, from a state of cruel coercion, of degrading slavery, which was daily debasing every manly sentiment!
This was a cruel stroke to poor Samboe, thus to deprive him of the only portion of comfort in his bitter draught of slavery.
But no such effect can ever flow from the piratical commerce of men, that deformed and cruel offspring of Mammon, which riots in the blood, and glories in the miseries of man.
In disposition he was so cruel and vindictive, that when he received an affront, even in the most trifling instance, he scrupled not to sacrifice the aggressor by shooting him.
It is the old, bad world Scott writes about, full of war and bloodshed, cruel customs and hatreds.
But you never came--not even when I wrote and asked you--did you know how cruel you were?
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