It appeared to Quentin that some cruel jest had been played upon the old man with the spindle legs.

It's not some cruel jest or another trap?

I will not have you making Hodor the butt of cruel jests, do you hear me?

"I have heard of the Gyrgon affinity for cruel jests," he said.

Could a God design and create so poor and cruel a jest?

If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

His wit was wicked, but she could not but laugh when he made some cruel jest.

There had been anger as well at the cruel jest of fate that had brought her into love with her own brother.

That clause I think was his last cruel jest.

Playing some cruel jest by taking her a winding way, making the darkness around her into a bewildering maze.