In the same way the mind can grow accustomed to the cruelest calamities, tolerate them, use them to attain a strength and power the hot-housed soul never gets.
Herself again, with the wound--deepest if not cruelest of her many wounds--covered and with its poison under control.
Still, if there be merit in shrinking, even when the cruelest necessities were goading, that merit was hers in full measure.
And never in all her life had her eyes been so gray--the gray of cruelest irony.
The cruelest laws ever devised by man have more equity and benevolence in them than the appalling and irrational jurisprudence of the Deity.
The cruelest of all separations is proposed to me--and I am expected to submit to it, because my husband's mistress is fond of my child!
Among the cruelest elements of Hadria's experience had been that emptying of her heart; the rebuff to the need for love, the conviction that she was to go through life without its supreme emotion.
Ah, that is among the cruelest of the victim's wrongs," said Professor Fortescue.
I have thecruelest part of every sorrow to bear--the part not sure.
Still, Doris might be mortified if she thought Uncle Watty was being criticised--which would be the cruelest thing that Miss Judy could imagine, and the furthest from the secret object of the entertainment.
Thenceforward, whenever his old neighbors heard of him, it was as being engaged in the cruelest outrages, the boldest inroads, or the most determin'd attacks upon the army of his countrymen or their peaceful settlements.
In New England, the cruelest laws were pass'd, and put in execution against them.
In short, Cecil, under the idea of friendship you would have done the cruelest thing in all the world for your friend.
Do you not know, my dear Cecil, that you are doing the falsest, cruelest thing by dear Annie in trying to hide her sin from me?
The gloomiest and cruelest error of Inquisitional Spain was nobler, with its adoration of ideal womanhood, than the Mohammedan state with its sensual dreams of Paradise.
Poverty would increase till its cruelest effects would be realized and lives enough would be crushed out to enable the survivors to get a living.
Of all industrial abuses of the past the cruelest has been the crushing of the life of young children by hard and prolonged labor.
But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man.
It was the cruelest exhibition--the most wanton, the most unfeeling.
It is the coldest-blooded, cruelest infamy that the world has ever seen, and that any race of people was ever fated to groan under.
It is the cruelest appearing place on the face of the earth, now that the French Bastile is gone, and I doubt if a Frenchman could possibly construct a place so grimly severe, so unutterably merciless as the Tower.
Madame de Brinvilliers underwent the cruelest torture then applied by the Parlement of Paris: the ordeal of water.
This thought blunts my teeth, paralyses my jaws, cramps my hands, and robs me of all appetite for food; so much so that I have a mind to let myself die of hunger, the cruelest death of all deaths.
It was not only a blow of the keenest and cruelest kind to her affection, but it was the cruelest blow her vanity could possibly have received.
Something had happened to her, the darkest and cruelest shadow that had ever darkened a girl's life was slowly gathering above her innocent head, and was soon to break, carrying in its turbulent depths a sorrow more bitter than death to bear.
He was a strange-looking man, and I thought he had the cruelest face I ever saw, but I am no expert on strange faces.
I remember that the sickness lasted for six days, and those were the cruelest days of my life.
You do not know what these troubles are, Fritz; a father's troubles for his children; they are the cruelest of all!
His most faithful friends perished with him; others were dismissed from court and army; and some suffered the cruelest treatment from the unfeeling usurper.
Nero, one of the basest andcruelest of the Roman emperors, is one of the best known to readers, and the interest felt in him is not alone due to the story of his life, but as well to that of his death, which we therefore here give.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruelest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
