She gives Emily a minor glimmer of hope before her brutal husband wickedly takes her life in front of her daughter's eyes.

His father was an ignorant, violent man, a bungling farmer and a brutal husband.

Even Godwin, her husband, complained, "I do not want a common-place story of a brutal, insensible husband."

Or perhaps I fled a brutal husband.

Even after the death of her brutal husband, she was unable to free herself from the shackles of humiliation.

Svetlana struggles to earn some money to send her son to England to work, while trying to survive with her brutal husband Ivan.

A brutal husband gets revenge.

Even those women whose purchases were of modest proportions dawdled over them as though they had brutal, drunken husbands to go home to.

In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.

Mahboubeh's best friend, who lives in an adjacent house, is regularly beaten by her brother, and Hamideh is in frequent flight from her brutal husband.