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  • Farther to the rear another fabulism crept from its hole, hoisting on its back a cruel-looking rider taking up his whip to crack.

    Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011

  • It was unusually cruel-looking, and at first I had shuddered every time I used it.

    Chapter 9 2010

  • The lower Tower was as dreadful as she had imagined, a claustrophobic and terrifying place of dark corridors, dark noises, damp walls, and cruel-looking guards.

    The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010

  • But his vision had been obscured by the thick hedges beyond, backlit and black in the moonlight, and any further entrance was deterred by a line of cruel-looking spikes whose inward curl would have prevented exit.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • But his vision had been obscured by the thick hedges beyond, backlit and black in the moonlight, and any further entrance was deterred by a line of cruel-looking spikes whose inward curl would have prevented exit.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • The lower Tower was as dreadful as she had imagined, a claustrophobic and terrifying place of dark corridors, dark noises, damp walls, and cruel-looking guards.

    The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010

  • The lower Tower was as dreadful as she had imagined, a claustrophobic and terrifying place of dark corridors, dark noises, damp walls, and cruel-looking guards.

    The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010

  • The giant metal barrels were covered with cruel-looking barbs and phosphorous bombs.

    Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • Each generation improved the next, growing stronger, colder, and more cruel-looking.

    Bogus to Bubbly Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • Each generation improved the next, growing stronger, colder, and more cruel-looking.

    Bogus to Bubbly Scott Westerfeld 2008

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