Turn all things the same, great herder, give us the benefit of the cutting of your cosy and cruel little cutting sword.

A group of nearly a score of the bloody caps, battered already but never afraid, did come roaring in, brandishing hammers and axes and cruel short swords.

Garion scarcely slept that night; when he did, there were nightmares about a hooded man with a cruel sword chasing him endlessly down dark, narrow streets.

And in the crook of her left arm sat a living gray-clad doll waving a cruel little sword - surely it was he who crucified Kwe-Kwe!

With cruel swords and axes they ranged the north, even to the fields of eternal ice, seeking a way to their ancient enemies.

Soon she would have to witness the death of the man she loved, his head savagely removed from his neck with, hopefully, one swing of a cruel sword.

Is it that love is really a cruel sword we turn on ourselves, exquisite torment?

At a word from it, they would surely cut him down with those cruel swords.

They struck their cruel swords into his face and arms, which they gashed with so many mortal wounds that he died the next day.

In seconds, a dozen of the ghoulish horsemen had leaped upon the immobilized horse and rider, hacking with their cruel swords.