The thought turned painfully in him as cruel hands twisted the spear.

When he had heard her scream and known she was in Ryan's cruel hands.

What cruel hands have since that time prevented it from again being drawn over them!

"Not unless you can turn back time, and then cut off the cruel hands of your men," he answered.

I would die happy if doing so would keep you from the enemy's cruel hands.

Their lives were now in the cruel hands of the arms czar.

Forget the hands, the cruel hands that continue to hold you down.

Or, if not, then a heavy, threatening hand, cruel and hard!

It was jerked up again by a cruel hand in her hair.

But then there was a sound like cloth being ripped between cruel hands.