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1611.  Florio, Incrudele, vncruell, milde.

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1720.  Mrs. Manley, Power of Love (1741), 272. If this Gentleman … had pressed her to make Him happy,… the uncruel fair One would not have been so hard-hearted to deny him.

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1863.  Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., xiv. 363. Such a destiny would have been a sorry climax to thy uncruel misdemeanours.

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