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  • All that was pass'd appear'd a Blessing to her present State; confin'd within a little wooden World, whose proud Sovereign was absolute, and from the Fierceness of whose Nature she had no room to hope that Prayers or Tears would be of Force to melt him! — — Here was no Possibility of escaping but by immediate Death; and what she suffer'd in the Apprehension of his Brutality, is not to be discribed by Words; so I shall only say, it was such as could be equalled by nothing but his barbarous Insensibility of it.

    Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel 1725

  • It here contracts a kind of Brutality and rustick Fierceness, to which Men of a pouter Conversation are wholly Strangers.

    Spectator, July 25, 1711 1711

  • It here contracts a kind of Brutality and rustick Fierceness, to which Men of a politer Conversation are wholly Strangers.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • (Sahil Makkar can be contacted at sahil. m@ians.in) 'Brutality' in Chhattisgarh anti-Maoist offensive, say rights groups Pyramid Saimira didn't have money to complete 'Marmayogi': Kamal Haasan

    India eNews 2009

  • Seems to me like alot of this "Brutality" and "Good ol Boy" system is occuring more and more these days.

    Southern Maryland Community Forums BattleMonK 2008

  • [Sep 15, 2008] '); "> Brothers In Arms: HH' Brutality 'trailer HD

    GameVideos Latest 12 videos 2008

  • When he first saw them, “I thought nothing could exceed them for impudence and immodesty; but I found the more I was acquainted with them, the more they excelled in their Brutality.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Brutality and brutalism - moral, intellectual and physical - can be the only consequences of any imposition of respect.

    Only religious thugs love blasphemy laws | Nick Cohen 2011

  • Brutality and stupidity knows no nationalities or borders.

    Connie Lawn: Sex, Violence, and Terrorism Connie Lawn 2011

  • Brutality and stupidity knows no nationalities or borders.

    Connie Lawn: Sex, Violence, and Terrorism Connie Lawn 2011

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