And last year, a bitter controversy erupted over allegations of cruel beatings of elephants at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.

The abuses cited on "Scared Silent" range from cruel sexual practices to cruel beatings to cruel words.

Subjected to numerous cruel beatings and isolation techniques, Joe continually refuses to sign his loyalty oath.

Rudy endured cruel beatings at work and realized that he too would be killed if his work wasn't good enough.

Something would have to be done, and soon, if the Britons were to escape a cruel beating.

Another poem is The Chorister's Lament, in which choirboys complain of the cruel beatings meted out to them:

Then came the first night as prisoner on board the ship, smarting from the cruel beating, bound for he knew not where and terrified for his life.

The orgasms slammed through her until she was sobbing, tears forming in her eyes, her body fluttering under this cruel beating!

This article took that notion out into the alley and issued a cruel beating, leaving my brain a broken and battered pulp on the cold ground.

It has collapsed: it was left to the mercy of the public's anger and they have subjected it to a cruel beating.