When Isoud heard her say so she was passing sore abashed, for passing well she loved Tramtrist, and full well she knew the cruelness of her mother the queen.
"Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table"
Thomas Malory
To depict the cruelness of war, do not assert the fact abstractly-"War is cruel."
"The Art of Public Speaking"
Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
Should human creatures then be of cruelness?
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley