1 He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.
2 Mr. Severe was rightly named: he was a cruel man.
3 Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters.
4 They were well matched, being equally mean and cruel.
5 He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding.
6 He was less cruel, less profane, and made less noise, than Mr. Severe.
7 I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
8 I have frequently felt her head, and found it nearly covered with festering sores, caused by the lash of her cruel mistress.
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.
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.
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.
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.