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1  He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Mr. Severe was rightly named: he was a cruel man.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
4  They were well matched, being equally mean and cruel.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
6  He was less cruel, less profane, and made less noise, than Mr. Severe.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
7  I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  I have frequently felt her head, and found it nearly covered with festering sores, caused by the lash of her cruel mistress.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Few are willing to incur the odium attaching to the reputation of being a cruel master; and above all things, they would not be known as not giving a slave enough to eat.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  If it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways; for I believe him to have been a much worse man after his conversion than before.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  I have known him to tie her up early in the morning, and whip her before breakfast; leave her, go to his store, return at dinner, and whip her again, cutting her in the places already made raw with his cruel lash.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX