What had I done to deserve so cruel a cut as this?

Then, turning away to look out of the small, square window he delivered the cruellest cut of all: "Specially when she's second best."

This could turn out to be the cruelest cut of all, not even to get inside.

It is a cruel cut, indeed.

Yet the cruelest cut of all is not the elimination process, brutal as that is.

The cruelest cut, why deprive a child of choice?

"This cruel cut has to do with the bottom line," she said, "and I think this cut will be the first of many at other publishers."

Some cruel Mundanian cut off her tail, but that did not sour her nature.

There are others ever willing to make a cruel cut when the fancy strikes 'em.

Last February came the cruelest cut of all.