Even when the peculiarity is slight-a wound, or a deformity-they drive the poor victim from their midst remorselessly.
"Ways of Wood Folk"
William J. Long
The thread of life was, as I have elsewhere said, remorselessly shorn between each successive generation, and the importance of the physical and psychical connection between parents and offspring had been quite, or nearly quite, lost sight of.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
231. The reader will find, in the following collection, many allusions to this infernal custom, which always overcame the marcher's general reluctance to shed human, blood, and rendered him remorselessly savage.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott