I wish one moment that I had never heard of the cruelties that have been practised here, and the next envy the mothers who have been killed with their children.
Art thou so pure as to decline, forsooth, These penitential usages of age That expiate proud cruelties of youth, And bring thee to the last and perfect art, To love the lovely with a selfless heart?
It was the Secours Nationale which saved Paris in those early days from some of the worst miseries of the war and softened some of the inevitable cruelties which it inflicted upon the women and children.
Here, travelling through the clean air of a quiet night, I might forget for a little while the senseless cruelties of this war, and turn my eyes away from the suffering of individuals smashed by its monstrous injustice.
In this place, however, the work was to defeat the cruelties of War the Torturer, after it had done its worst with human flesh.
The cruelties and injustices inflicted on the Indians were revolting.
Again was he compelled to witness the perpetration of the most revolting cruelties upon the unfortunate Iroquois captured by his allies, whom he could not restrain, although now regarded by them with feelings amounting to veneration.
In 1567 the Duke of Alva, a famous veteran of the wars of Charles V and of Philip, was sent to the Netherlands as governor, where his cruelties soon made him notorious.
The descriptions penned as of the cruelties practised on these harmless creatures dispense me from the ungrateful task of attempting to depict them.
He began to commit the usual cruelties and wickedness as all there are in the habit of doing, and much more besides, to obtain the object they hold as God, which is gold.
And in truth, were I to recount his cruelties one by one, I could make a big book that would astonish the world.
This last volume bore a truly startling title: Casas’s horrid Massacres, Butcheries and Cruelties that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Spaniards in the West Indies.
The obscure workings of the mysterious laws of race-survival were forced on and hastened by the cruelties against which Las Casas protested in vain, but the triumphal march of human progress has followed on.
I laid open the cruelties of the Church of Rome in many instances that happened in Queen Mary's reign, which were not then known: And I aggravated, though very truly, the danger of falling under the power of that religion.
The cruelties of the Inquisition were not the first which were visited upon the Jews.
The Twelfth Council, of Toledo, 681, far surpassed its predecessors in the cruelties of its enactments.
The ignorance and misery and suffering and cruelties that abound everywhere are too revolting to tempt a longer stay.
Where others rest their blood-reeking weapons in the belief that they have reached, at last, the summit of crime, he heartlessly advances as upon mere stepping stones to far greater cruelties to come.
We shudder as we think of the cruelties which this ignorance will bequeath as its curse upon mankind.
Terror seized upon the native Portuguese Jews, when they helplessly beheld the cruelties to which their Spanish brethren were subjected.
Deza refused to listen to their claim, until the cruelties of which Lucero was accused were proved.
Helen now learned, for the first time, the basecruelties which had been exercised on her father and his family since the capture of De Valence.
The least sign of their observing any of the rites and ceremonies of the Jewish religion, or of their preferring the Law of Moses to the Gospel, exposed them to the horrible cruelties of the Inquisition.
The Spanish nobles tried to put a stop to the horrible cruelties practised towards the Jews; but Ferdinand the Third, who became King of Castile, A.
I was not ignorant with what barbarity the Spaniards treated these creatures; so that I presently concluded it must be them, whose cruelties had spread throughout America, to be remembered even to succeeding generations.
The manner of their cruelties to one another, which consequently, as I thought, must be acted with greater barbarity to strangers, created in me a great anxiety, and made me still more curious to ask Friday concerning them.
They point to terrible and revolting cruelties as proof that nothing short of the absolute extermination of the race can prevent their repetition.
Capricious alike in their cruelties and their kindnesses, they treated some of their captives with forbearance and consideration and tormented others apparently without cause.
It is merely a denunciation of thecruelties of Christiern II.
The people were horrified by the brutal cruelties of Christiern, while allured by the evident sincerity and enthusiasm of Gustavus.
In place of the old burgomaster and Council of Stockholm, the city was now held by satellites of Christiern, and any whose hearts revolted against his sickening cruelties were discreet enough to hold their tongues.
Meantime the county of Atholl suffered under the unparalleled cruelties of the English soldiery.
But this is only one instance of that catalogue of cruelties towards the Jacobites, which it would take volumes to detail.
The besiegers forced their way into the town, where they pillaged and exercised all those cruelties which were but too customary at that time, between the Swedes and Russians.
This may serve to shew, that such crueltiesprevail in all countries in times of anarchy and confusion.
In former ages cruelties of this kind were hidden in the blaze of success, but now they sully the glory of a conqueror.
Of late she has enlarged her list of national cruelties by her butcherly destruction of the Caribbs of St. Vincent's, and returning an answer by the sword to the meek prayer for "Peace, liberty and safety.
Her cruelties in the East Indies will never be forgotten, and it is somewhat remarkable that the produce of that ruined country, transported to America, should there kindle up a war to punish the destroyer.
For eight days the men practised unheard-of cruelties upon the wretched townsmen, already starved and beggared, wretches whose only crime had been their yielding to the natural impulse of self-preservation.
Having spent fifteen days in these alternate cruelties and debaucheries, Morgan resolved to retreat.
I have with me very good soldiers, who desire nothing more ardently than to revenge on you and your people all the cruelties and base infamous actions you have committed upon the Spanish nation in America.
These cruelties particularly show us that one of the functions of the insect in nature is to preside over the disappearance and also the ultimate metamorphoses of the least "remnants of life.
When Antiochus heard of this bold and daring resolution, so much beyond his expectations, he perpetrated the most frightful cruelties on every Jew who would not forsake his religion.
This is necessary on account of the cruelties which they have committed west of the Dnieper, for our own dignity, and for the good of the Commonwealth.
Where will you show me such monsters as they, where such cruelties as they have perpetrated on women and little children?
The crueltiesof Bonner were remembered with disgust.
The accession of a Catholic King, the frightful cruelties committed in the west of England, never shook the steady loyalty of the clergy.
The sole crime of the Commons was that, meeting after a long intermission of parliaments, and after a long series of cruelties and illegal imposts, they seemed inclined to examine grievances before they would vote supplies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruelties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
