Word: cruel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fire. The simple fact that boxing teaches self-reliance to a boy ought to be recommendation enough to paterfamilias, who should encourage his son to become proficient in the art of "hit, stop and get away." A broken head is soon remedied, but a cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust of a knife has cost many a life, and any one who resorts to these weapons, excepting when his life is in danger, is a contemptible coward, without a spark of manhood in his breast, and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon race. The accomplishment of boxing should...
...alas! on the day before the anxiously awaited Tuesday, came a cruel overturning of all his hopes and plans...
...presence of these five terrible dragons did our little Henry find himself, when he with great difficulty pushed aside the massive door, impelled to the bold action by the voice of a Siren within, whom the fifth dragon guarded night and day; and the Siren lamented unceasingly her cruel fate...
...what is so pitiable as a loving heart, spurned, despised, by the object of its love! What so cruel as the youth, favored by fate, who will crush beneath his feet this precious gift of love! Will not the despised one's tears rouse against him an avenging spirit...
...Cruel, cruel are all, idols of shapely stone...