"It has been done more brutally, I believe," said the Judge, "but never more thoroughly.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
He smiled grimly at her flushed discomfiture when he found her pondering ways and means, and somewhat brutally said to himself that she would find that she had little rope to run upon.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The voice now answers brutally: "I'm the man with the coffin, that's what I am."
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell