cruels

British  

noun

1. another name for actinobacillosis, a disease of sheep

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Example Sentences

Today, though, her powerful fiction is too little read, apart from a handful of eerie tales and contes cruels.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2019

Since Jackson died of heart failure at 48 in 1965, her work has never lacked for admirers, especially among aficionados of contes cruels and tales of existential disorientation.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2015

Entre les loups cruels j'erre parmy la plaine Je sens venir l'hyver, de qui la froide haleine D'une tremblante horreur fait h�risser ma peau.

From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Belloc, Hilaire

Exhortez-vous, devancez le temps, agrandissez votre imagination, regardez de loin, et vous verrez que ces grands personnages que vous croyez violents, cruels, que sais-je? ne sont que des politiques.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Dacres, Edward

Le besoin en subsistence produit toujours des effete cruels, et le résultat peut en être calculé plus positivement que celui de toute autre chose.

From Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of his Services in the Canadas, including a reply to the strictures on his Military Character, Contained in an Article in The Quareterly Review by Brenton, E. B.