The punishment is as inevitable and as fearsome as from the hand of God.
No; there is no other terror so awful.

And, one likes to think, there is no other punishment in the next world so severe as that meted out to the torturers of little children.

For this hope's basis there is the solemn warning voiced by the All-pitying Friend of children;--a threat which, apparently, was unfamiliar to Ruloff.
Down upon the weepingly prostrate Sonya bore the man.

As he came toward her, he ripped off the leathern belt he wore.

And he brandished it by the hole-punch end; the brass buckle singing ominously about his head.
Then, out from the house and across the wide veranda flashed a giant tawny shape.
With the fierce speed of his youngest days, Lad cleared the porch and reached the crying child.