And now I hope I shall never be called upon to speak to you again, for you are the cruelest, most contemptible girl I have ever known; but, if I hear anything further of this, I will take you to Miss Archer, to the Board of Education, if necessary, and make you retract every word.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
Although by sheer brutality, by coarse insults and undeviating cruelty, I had driven my wife to the edge of the precipice, my rage against the man, whom I knew she had always loved, burned as fiercely as though he had won her from me by the cruelest means.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
No hope dare live with night and storm joining hands, and madness driving on the cruelest coast known.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman