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Meanings of ruthless hand in English

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Usage of ruthless hand in English
1
Some ruthless hand will pick out those pearls and throw the hair away.
The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
2
The attacker grunted, but his ruthless hand clamped like a vise.
Midnight hero
3
What a ruthless hand it was that had destroyed him!
The Net
4
To-morrow a ruthless hand will close around your throats.
The Book of Tea
5
His ruthless hand rent my horn from my head.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
6
His face was haggard; the strain of the night had marked him with a ruthless hand.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
7
Bits of her clothing torn off by a ruthless hand, lay scattered over all these floors.
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
8
The ruthless hand of death had struck down her father in the midst of prosperity and happiness.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
9
Along the road from Guanajay to Marianao, Maceo swept with ruthless hand in 1896, destroying Spanish property.
Cuba, Old and New
10
But with a ruthless hand the Natives' Land Act has succeeded in remorselessly destroying those happy relations.
Native Life in South Africa / Before and Since the European War ...
11
Mrs. Sykes beamed graciously under this delicate compliment and confiscated Ann's latest biscuit with a ruthless hand.
Up the Hill and Over
12
Stanton justified the President's choice, and under his strong if ruthless hand the War Department became sternly efficient.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled Nort...
13
His attitude became fatalistic-he was being moved about by a ruthless hand without regard to his own volition.
Youth Challenges
14
She looked so broken-justas if someone had wiped the sunshine out of her life with a ruthless hand.
The Second Honeymoon
15
He must not need continual explanation and defense, for then outraged pride would strangle love with a ruthless hand.
The Red Acorn
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And this man was snatched from them, not alone by the ruthless hand of death, but by midnight murder.
The Vale of Cedars; Or, The Martyr
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