1 But there was a difference, for beneath Rhett's seeming lightness there was something malicious, almost sinister in its suave brutality.
2 He looked as if he were enjoying himself and when he spoke there was suave brutality in his voice.
3 The brutality of the thrust gave her the sense of dizziness that follows on a physical blow.
4 She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to took upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.
5 Our system is educating them in barbarism and brutality.
6 Legree had trained them in savageness and brutality as systematically as he had his bull-dogs; and, by long practice in hardness and cruelty, brought their whole nature to about the same range of capacities.
7 The woman, whom long practice with the victims of brutality had made familiar with many healing arts, went on to make many applications to Tom's wounds, by means of which he was soon somewhat relieved.
8 The outrageous treatment of poor Tom had roused her still more; and she had followed Legree to the house, with no particular intention, but to upbraid him for his brutality.
9 When he first bought her, she was, as she said, a woman delicately bred; and then he crushed her, without scruple, beneath the foot of his brutality.
10 Not very dear, however, when you deserted him in his infancy, and left him to the brutality of a drunken grandmother.
11 She was stunned by this unexpected piece of brutality, at the moment when she was glowing with a sort of pleasure beyond words, and a sort of love for him.
12 his incomprehensible brutality.
13 After some time Cucumetto became the object of universal attention; the most extraordinary traits of ferocious daring and brutality were related of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 14 The bandit's laws are positive; a young girl belongs first to him who carries her off, then the rest draw lots for her, and she is abandoned to their brutality until death relieves her sufferings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 15 But when a creature pretending to reason could be capable of such enormities, he dreaded lest the corruption of that faculty might be worse than brutality itself.