A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: cruel

Number of occurrences in corpus: 65

A.3.4 45 t the watery onslaught of the cruel waves; / it stood kept blessed
A.4.2 238 me, / until those who were the cruel / chief-watchmen of that milit
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 255 loody slaughter. / Just as the cruel lion, along with its cubs, de
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 512 is own relatives, / who with a cruel hand tore at the innards of h
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 527 ikes down the woods, / so that cruel chieftain himself ravaged and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 557 king freed his people from a cruel enemy / and placed the Mercian
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 791 ow / by weapons, fell slain in cruel slaughter. / and spent a day li
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 823 he too tried to bind him with cruel chains. / But he could not, fo
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 839 dered them / to devastate with cruel slaughter the innocent people
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 953 / might come to save me from a cruel enemy. / Then, behind me someth
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1055 d them and killed them with a cruel death: / for they straightaway
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1356 I say to you, you savage and cruel tyrant, / you shall not carry
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 32 3 ain gold cross was taken in a cruel theft, / one that the servant o
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 32 9 man perished, destroyed by a cruel pestilence,. / But at the point
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 35 suffer horrendous wounds of a cruel sword. / And God, the omnipote
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.4 13 f the realm, / murdered him in cruel death, after he was struck by
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.6 4 ouched the wounds made by the cruel spear, / believed at once in t
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 19 , which he suffered through a cruel death, / there occurred the de
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 28 was cooked on the flames, the cruel mother began to eat him, / utt
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 30 udder to speak of the lad’s cruel death. / In this way did the v
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 90 any defence. / These blasts of cruel wind caused violations. / And
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 282 r kindly to the fine or truly cruel to the wicked. / Likewise, th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 357 horrendous maw; / and when the cruel beast choked down the pitch-b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 364 ing prophet was imprisoned / by cruel torturers and thrust into a d
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 382 ire immediately burnt through cruel bindings, / but could not burn
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 436 alone lacks the bitterness of cruel poison / with which the angry f
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 605 rose, / one whom previously the cruel countenance of old age / had su
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 632 o you believed was old with a cruel countenance, / who greatly appa
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1096 iously punishing martyrs with cruel edicts. / Then he submerged in
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1199 in with blinded minds. / Then a cruel attendant ordered that he be
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1561 our words, about to come to a cruel end! / Doubtless you alone, abo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1671 do not know the ravages of a cruel thief, / but where the perpetua
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1759 s of red tile, / as well as the cruel cutting of the unbending blad
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1816 with dreadful anger / while the cruel tyrant disputed with words, / s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1870 oppressed the saints with his cruel edicts, / alas, the crime, so t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1963 ed gave up his life through a cruel deed / and reached the infernal
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2133 / and deadly disease, with its cruel closure, incites, / Eustochium
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2264 rom their limbs. / Finally, the cruel leader Sisinnius came, / so tha
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2270 r of threats, / even though the cruel one laid down a hundred strok
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2307 turned out otherwise than the cruel torturer hoped, / since the vir
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2331 d had been quenched. / Then the cruel torturer ordered the sacred s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2401 mpty wastes. / Straightaway the cruel dragon, crushed by the weight
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2419 command. / For that reason, the cruel torturer began to brandish / th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2467 on, the Virtues / beat back the cruel missiles of the wicked spears
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2472 the eight leaders / to whom the cruel companies cling. / Not only i
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2592 nd afflicted the thief with a cruel beating; / the one who, out of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2597 rishing vineyard to , / after a cruel wife wrote a wicked document.
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2604 he text to the town / and being cruel, had afflicted the righteous p
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2645 torment God’s recruits with cruel weapons; / this fierce desperat
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2724 God despised the offerings of cruel Cain. / From that an evil harve
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 788 and stiff, as if burdened by cruel death, / but just like hearts u
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 125 enaces of Zephyr? / In vain did cruel Salacia oppress me, / if I rej
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 195 mon him, choosing to obey the cruel laws / of the raging, punishme
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 375 on the left, / and foamed forth cruel oracles from his swollen lips
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 390 ? As often as they stirred up cruel battle, / they received bloody
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 796 name of Christ.” / Soon the cruel shafts fall; then the shields
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 809 hrone / and dared to compose a cruel edict in response to the sacr
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 835 hus, and immediately after, a cruel and hungry body of officials
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 847 resent as witness and saw the cruel prison being illuminated / wit
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 876 to its previous source. / The cruel bonds did no harm to the bles
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 884 destroy a righteous man for a cruel king. / The king, swelling up g
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 896 came to the innocent limbs. / Cruel race, in vain the anvil is st
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 952 with various disasters; / her cruel sister, the royal wife of Cen
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1209 t down into the depths of the cruel pit. / Regardless of what apocr
N.MiraculaNyniae 104 an unchaste king and likewise cruel, Tudvael, / and was under him t