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Russell, "I do not know whether she ever paid it back but the result was the same." When in Scotland once she found that a man with a cart-load of herrings had been using a piece of barbed wire to flog his horse with. He was taxed with the barbarity, but denied it. The Duchess thereupon walked back and found the wire.
For what good man would not be moved to sorrow at seeing the sick and wounded thus maltreated? What humane heart could refrain from loud lamentations at the sight of barbarity which is not withheld from laying a murderous hand even on the sacred anguish of the sick and wounded? Defend me, then, against those Romans who may shrug their shoulders over the weakness of a weeping Caesar the Terrible.
Having conquered the governments of the world, Rome had to face outbreak after outbreak from the unarmed, unsheltered masses of the people. Her barbarity drove them to mad despair. "Servile" wars, slave outbreaks are dotted over all the last century of the Roman Republic.
They pursue their violent design, and, after several unsuccessful attacks, in which many of them lost their lives, the cargo was at length compleated by barbarity and force.
Williams thinks it's irregular," Sebright broke in, "you and your young lady being alone in an open boat at night, and that sort of thing. It isn't what they approve of at Bristol." Manuel suddenly bellowed out, "Señorita save me from their barbarity. I am a victim. Behold their bloody knives ready and their eyes which gloat."
We had there subverted the whole order of nature; we had aggravated every natural barbarity, and furnished to every man motives for committing, under the name of trade, acts of perpetual hostility and perfidy against his neighbour. Thus had the perversion of British commerce carried misery instead of happiness to one whole quarter of the globe.
North Carolina troops taken out and shot after surrendering. All negroes in uniform also murdered. We presume the account is correct, and it only proves that what was supposed to be an exceptional barbarity at Fort Pillow, has been adopted as the deliberate policy of the rebels. As the issue is to be made it must be met."
That nobleman knew that he was universally believed to have been an accomplice in the barbarity exercised on Alfred, and that he was on that account obnoxious to Hardicanute; and perhaps he hoped, by displaying this rage against Harolds memory, to justify himself from having had any participation in his counsels.
On the 30th, some atrocious villain stabbed one of the hogs belonging to the crown, which occasioned its death: this, amongst many other actions which happened, of a similar nature, served to show that there are wretches equal to any act of inhumanity and barbarity.
Then began those famous assemblies of "the Desert," which were the nightmare of Louvois and the horror of Louis XIV. When it came to the knowledge of the authorities that such meetings were being held, large bodies of troops were sent into the southern provinces, with orders to disperse them and apprehend the ringleaders. These orders were carried out with much barbarity.
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