She was too ignorant of the nature of the inquisition, to know that even innocence was not always a protection from its Cruelties; and she confided too surely in the virtue of her father, to believe that any accusation could prevail against him.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
He was haunted now by visions of Cruelties and sufferings being inflicted on some one he knew in a far-distant land; he pleaded with the torturers; he called for help; sometimes he said she was dead and released, and there was no more need for him to go away in a ship to seek for her.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
Now in Port Said as well as in Alexandria, Cairo, and in the whole of Egypt nothing was the subject of more discussion than the Mahdi's insurrection and the Cruelties of the dervishes.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz