How To Use Mercy In A Sentence
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With most of Bradford's other income coming from mortgage broking, estate agency and property surveying, the decent yield really is at the mercy of house prices.
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Being at the mercy of an unmerciful Ãresource decisionà ®, right at the end of your life, is unacceptable.
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In the meantime, they remain at the mercy of the elements, and on rainy days, their business suffers.
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You're so sweet I just wanted to throw myself on your mercy and beg you to help me.
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The President rejected the mercy petition after consulting legal experts, including Attorney General Milon Banerji.
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The two delegates approached the supreme leader on several occasions trying to beg mercy for their fellow reformers.
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Together, they went on to buy the Mercy Convent in Stradbally, and converted it into a gardening school with residential and non-residential courses, known as Carrigahilla House and Gardens.
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We have been at the mercy of the storm for days, and the cloud cover still prevents me from fixing our location by the stars.
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Now the three swords, now and anciently borne before the king at his coronation, were known as the sword of the clergy, the sword of the laity, and the third (curtana), which has no point, the sword of mercy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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In this sense, mercy can be thought of as the opposite of grace, or perhaps more correctly - the inverse.
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And when they farm - if they farm at all - they do so inefficiently, in smallholdings, largely at the mercy of nature.
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Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable.
Creative Control - Part 4
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One may search these "Salt Water Ballads" through from the opening line of "Consecration" to "The Song At Parting" and find no faint suggestion of that deep religious glory of "The Everlasting Mercy.
Giant Hours with Poet Preachers
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Women who are poor and uneducated are often still at the mercy of abusive partners or relatives.
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Experiencing his mercy should humble us, fill us with gratitude, and move us to be merciful toward those around us.
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But the thing that really bugs me about Cheney's quote (again, he said, regarding torture, that: "The fact of the matter is the Justice Department reviewed all those allegations several years ago.") is that in using the Justice Department as justification, he brings to mind the old story used to define the Yiddish word chutzpah: Someone who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.
Mitchell Bard: Hypocrisy Alert: Cheney Relies on the Objectivity of the Justice Department to Defend Torture
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I hope, I yearn to see that it all comes from some great and perfect will, a will with qualities of which what we know as mercy, justice, and love are but faint shadows -- but that is hidden from me.
The Altar Fire
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Although no average cake would have held the candles to which Miss Mercy's birthdays entitled her, she was given to "middy" blouses and pink sweaters.
The Dude Wrangler
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We must find him for ourselves a God of grace, mercy, love and power, for that is what he really is.
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They simply ripped them limb from limb in the second half with a ferociously determined and hungry display which left Cork begging for mercy.
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His whole life was lived at the mercy of the second favourite planet.
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The Tasmanian devil is small, but stocky and muscular and leads the GTMS Team Australia attack. This beast shows no mercy against his opponents and is on the offense always.
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He was at the mercy of the ebb and flow of public opinion.
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. Oscar Wilde
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The jury added a rider to their verdict recommending mercy.
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The rest of the population is left at the mercy or Big Immoral Insurance Corporations in pursue of profit at all cost.
Congresswoman says some senators 'Neanderthals'
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But the plan backfired when the driver couldn't get the flash car to start as they left the restaurant - leaving the couple at the mercy of the paparazzi.
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Here an exclamation of "Mercy, mercy!" called the esquire's attention, and he beheld his amiable consort sinking aghast, with uplifted hands on
Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
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It has thrown itself on the mercy of old-fashioned union barons.
The Sun
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy. Rumi
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The problem with this sort of triangulation is that it puts you at the mercy of the extremists — if one side gets crazier, the “middle road” shifts to accomodate.
Will Saletan’s Moderation
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The high priest having done this, perfumed the sanctuary, returned to the door, took the blood of the slain bullock, and, carrying it into the holy of holies, sprinkled it with his finger once upon the mercy seat "eastward" -- that is, on the side next to himself; and seven times "before the mercy seat" -- that is, on the front of the ark.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Dubuque community leaders were persuaded that a merger of Mercy and Finley offered the best chance to stem growing costs.
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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. Rumi
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His sword weaved an invisible circle around Sojan's guard and the newcomer soon had him at his mercy.
Elric At The End of Time
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Should the law allow mercy killing?
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Besides the goat offered for the people the blood of which was sprinkled before the mercy seat, the high priest led forth a second goat, namely, the scapegoat; over it he confessed the people's sins, putting them on the head of the goat, which was sent as the sin-bearer into the wilderness out of sight, implying that the atonement effected by the goat sin offering (of which the ceremony of the scapegoat is a part, and not distinct from the sin offering) consisted in the transfer of the people's sins on the goat, and their consequent removal out of sight.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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So I throw myself upon the mercy of the Interweb.
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Aid agencies are making mercy flights into the flood region.
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Indeed, this be of that which is incumbent on us, O King, and I say, ‘Praised be Allah!’ in that He hath guerdoned thee with His gifts and vouchsafed thee of His mercy, the welfare of the realm; and hath succoured thee and ourselves, on condition that we increase in gratitude to Him; and all this no otherwise than by thine existence!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Some refugee children were plucked out of the country in a number of mercy missions.
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The crisp new outfit is in contrast to Mercy's scruffy orphanage clothes.
The Sun
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Kelly prayed that God would judge her with mercy.
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One might as well expect mercy from a killer shark or warmth from a cube of ice.
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Every man lives at the mercy of his inner self - his character - that is the master of his destiny. A positive character gives birth to a good destiny, while a negative character produces a bad destiny. Dr T.P.Chia
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A doctor from Tameside Hospital is joining a team of physicians on a mercy mission to help earthquake victims.
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Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.
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He expressed a natural amazement that the lines should have been so grossly misunderstood, and defended them as being ‘one of the strongest forms of obtestation, of adjuring God to show mercy, by all His grace, and truth, and love.’
The Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations
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Glaring at the milk carton Mercy threw the soaked towel of milk into the green tin wastebasket.
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The real villains he fingers as the Newfoundlanders, who waded into the auks' domains and ravaged them without mercy.
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Ultimately, we are called to love one another in trinities of mercy, love, and forgiveness, as God first loved us.
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The Koran speaks of the advent of the Prophet as a mercy to the entire universe.
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POP/ROCK: St. Vincent, "Strange Mercy" 4AD Annie Clark, who records under the name St. Vincent, took a giant leap on her second album, the 2009 release "Actor.
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This penitency consists in three things -- First, An inward insight of sin, and sense of mercy; Secondly, A bewailing of thy vile state;
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
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They prayed God would forgive their faults and, for their hopes hereafter, they relied on God's mercy pleaded in the Eucharistic memorial of Christ's redemption and on the intercession of the Church both living and departed.
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Mercy suffered minor injuries after clinging to the roof of the car.
The Sun
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Don't stand looking any longer, for mercy's sake!" called the querulous voice from the house.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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The worst-hit were the mentally unsound women who were deserted by their kin and left on the roads to the mercy of anti-social elements.
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Ruth and Naomi (the word "clave" is used to describe their relationship, which is exactly the same word used in describing husband-wife relationships); David and Jonathan; and Daniel and Ashpenaz (the Hebrew describing their relationship is chesed v'rachimin-chesed translates as "mercy" but v'rachimin, which is used in a plural form suggesting more than one of its usual meanings, which includes "physical love").
Dangerous Intersection
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It's a mercy the accident happened so near the hospital.
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So lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything, and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a rustler -- preying upon his neighbors 'cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly.
The Ranch at the Wolverine
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Nothing rank or rankish was spared, and no mercy was shown.
From The Darkest Corners of the Fridge
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To take one's own life or to terminate the life of another out of mercy is to exercise the most awesome power imaginable.
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He played the song incessantly, ignoring my pleas for mercy and grannyish objections to its author's seditious intent.
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Without its own donor list, the charity is at the mercy of the fundraiser.
MITCH GOLD
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Toure, with the entire goal at his mercy, thunders the ball against the bar.
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The second Sunday after Easter is now dedicated to the Divine Mercy - a new feast day instituted by John Paul himself based on the visions of his sainted compatriot, Faustina Kowalska.
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I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new years day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
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Today, it is another kind of crusade, to protect the sacred places of the earth wherein dwell freedom and justice, and good faith and mercy, and humane and Christian civilization.
The Present Challenge to Canada
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God have mercy on his soul.
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She doesn't quote the great biblical injunction ‘to do justice but to love mercy’, but that is the general drift.
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But the black smoke of the granary belching against the white hills, or the kyloe, houghed and maimed, roaring in its agony, or the fugitive brought bloody on his knees among the rocks -- God's mercy!
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Providence in mercy permits the union of families long to remain unbroken; and, at length, in _mercy_ too -- whatever the suggestions of despondency -- dissolves it.
Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I
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David Loh/Reuters A Chinese opera singer played on his cellphone as he waited to perform for Goddess of Mercy's birthday celebration in George Town, Malaysia.
Asia in Pictures
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Judges should have a wide discretion to temper justice with mercy.
Times, Sunday Times
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May I not presume upon Your mercy by assuming there will be no consequences for my sin. Help me to confess and then to sin no more.
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British mercy flights had airlifted 5,000 Egyptians home by last night.
The Sun
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The prisoner was in so much pain all he could do was scream and beg for mercy.
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He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel : as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed for e
Archive 2009-06-01
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Taxi drivers at the mercy of drunken passengers on late-night runs sometimes admit to keeping a large spanner under their seat.
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Judgment: let Matilda have her seisin and let Clement be in mercy for disseisin.
Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today!
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Oh and back to the skimpy caribana costumes. lawd a mercy!
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Be ready to make a mercy dash after heavy snow, shaking it off the upward sweeping branches of conifers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Following the Mass, parishioners will march in procession as one body to the Convent of Mercy where Benediction will be imparted.
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We are all at the mercy of a falling tile, " Julius Caesar reminds us in Thornton Wilder's Ides of March.
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The class have to plead for mercy on his behalf, but the King's envoy will only accept written pleas.
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Aid agencies are making mercy flights into the flood region.
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The former, who showed no mercy to those who were physically less endowed than them, sowed the seeds of injustice and naked brutishness that stalk the country today.
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This fits the desire to portray English fans as the victims, forever at the mercy of unscrupulous foreign justice systems and brutal, fascistic policemen.
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S: And if We show mercy to them and remove the distress they have, they would persist in their inordinacy, blindly wandering on.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself.
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Yet the real battle for England is hoping its cricket revival is not going to be torn to shreds in this game by a rampant Aussie team who simply refuse to show any mercy to the old enemy.
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The brave and the wise can both pity and excuse,when cowards and fools shew no mercy.
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The brave and the wise can both pity and excuse,when cowards and fools shew no mercy.
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If mercy, the administratrix of predestination is revealed according to the
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
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When James Guthrie was lying ill and like to die, he called in his man, James Cowie, to read in the Epistle to the Romans to him, and when Cowie came to these words, 'I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,' his master burst into tears, and said, 'James, I have nothing but that to lippen to.'
Samuel Rutherford
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When the Prison Commission discussed the virtues of parole it invoked ideas of mercy and clemency.
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. Oscar Wilde
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Be ready to make a mercy dash after heavy snow, shaking it off the upward sweeping branches of conifers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glick, who had four months left on his three-year hitch, choked up and sniffled when he read a statement asking for mercy.
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Etess agrees that for the rest of the year, Connecticut casinos will be at the mercy of the economy until consumer confidence returns.
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And this ruler is distinguished from him that exhorteth, and him that teacheth, with whose special work, as such, he hath nothing to do; even as they are distinguished from those who give and show mercy; that is, there is an elder by office in the Church, whose work and duty it is to _rule_, not to exhort or teach ministerially, which is our ruling elder.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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Could Hashem not find it within His infinite mercy to forgive Moshe's one sin?
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Again, my heart pleaded for justice and mercy; for _justice_ to all; and for _mercy_ to the needy and helpless.
Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
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The terms proposed were that the people of Faenza should have immunity for themselves and their property; that Astorre should have freedom to depart and to take with him his moveable possessions, his immoveables remaining at the mercy of the Pope.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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As well as being erudite, witty and utterly shameless, his autobiography shows he was capable of great mercy.
Times, Sunday Times
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David, in straits, had humbly and earnestly begged mercy of God, and God had heard him, that is, had graciously accepted his prayer, taken cognizance of his case, and granted him an answer of peace.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Council, whether, even at this point, they should untread their steps, and, throwing themselves upon the Czarina's 30 mercy, return to their old allegiance.
De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
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brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore
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I am obliged always to use the English word 'Grace' in two senses, but remember that the Greek [Greek: charis] includes them both (the bestowing, that is to say, of Beauty and Mercy); and especially it includes these in the passage of Pindar's first ode, which gives us the key to the right interpretation of the power of sculpture in Greece.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
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Now here he was, being just as free with his mercy as he always told us to be.
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It was at the time when Blaise de Montluc, the sanguinary chief, struck the Protestants with a heavy hand, and his sword hewed them in pieces, while, in the name of a God of mercy, he inundated the earth with tears and blood.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
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O Lord have mercy upon us!" ... and Doña Elena was at the same time contemplating a group of officers with helmets and reseda uniforms reinforced with leather pouches for the revolver, field glasses and maps, with sword-belt of the same material.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.
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In this department it would be remiss to single out anyone, but one recalls one crunching tackle by Richard Berney on Cantan, when the full back came into the line with a touch down at his mercy.
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He has also showed that when there's surplus to requirements at the club, no mercy will be shown.
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The arrival of the Mercy girls greatly enhanced the shows and since 1970, all the female roles, principals and chorus, have been taken by students from Mercy, Tuam.
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Adds Stephen D'Arcy, coleader of PricewaterhouseCoopers 'global automotive practice: "When you don't have control, particularly in China, you're kind of at their mercy.
Can China Save GM?
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The quality of Mercy was definitely strained, weakened by intermarriage and a few too many falls in the riding ring.
THE LAST PLACE
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She fell upon her knees, her head upon her couch her hands clasped upon her head, overcome by anxiety and terror; and gipsy, idolatress, and pagan as she was, began with sobs and tremblings to ask mercy of the God of the Christians, and pray to Our Lady, her hostess.
I. The Little Shoe. Book XI
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This time of rest has been a great mercy.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Mercy on me!” he exclaimed, with a look of the blankest bewilderment.
Armadale
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His sister, Isabella, a cloistered novitiate, petitions Angelo for mercy.
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For others, especially the young and foolish, the state will temper justice with mercy.
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Belmont, for him, is a great recusant house where "mercy ... redeems the mercenariness of the Protestant market" in Venice, and Portia, as the epitome of "matriarchal Catholicism," presides in private over the rites and festivals of the Roman Church while providing a safe haven for her coreligionists.
The One and Only
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God is not only mercy for sinners and outcasts but manna for everyone.
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For God kept this diftribution and order in difpofing the coue* uant of his mercy, that how much the nearer it drew on in proceife of time to y ful performance thereof, with fo much greater encreafc - mentes of reuelation he did day by day more brightly {hew it.
The institution of christian religion
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Now the Reporter is guarding against a penitent man experiencing the mercy of God.
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Sensitive to the alleged and often real rebuffs of friends, but also to the demands of ecclesiastical authority, he was often at its mercy.
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‘We will wage a war without mercy against the terrorists’ he warned.
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Fire and water have no mercy.
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It would be a mercy to end its existence, but he left it there, just tethering at the edge of death, wishing for it but not enough to fall over.
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Chron.v. 13, when they sang these words, "for his mercy endureth for ever," the house was filled with a cloud) and in Jehoshaphat's time
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Then you're not at the mercy of the weather and the finicky ocean," she concluded.
WEB OF DREAMS
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Then he declared there is no mercy in the dogfight at the bottom.
The Sun
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There and then, he cast himself on the mercy of God, imploring him to forgive his sins and accept his soul for Christ's sake.
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The Nazi artillery dutifully shelled without mercy, and the Luftwaffe bombarded the streets relentlessly.
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It was a small mercy that only six riders were forced to abandon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Demoralised Huns held their hands up crying for mercy.
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But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
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While generally speaking that's a very good thing indeed, it's a bummer when your personal fortune is placed at the mercy of somebody's greed.
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The people prayed, wept, gnashed their teeth, pulled their hair, imploring the mercy of the Virgin Mary.
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Lily was humanity bound to duty, unable to choose, suffering, at the mercy of social ideals.
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Thank God for the Venue, where dirty, spotty, black-clad youth still go to shake their lank hair to the Sisters of Mercy.
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I wanted to cry, weep and beg the Almighty for mercy.
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The hoopoo: "He that shows no mercy, shall not obtain mercy.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
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Yesterday, he hit some crucial double faults and made forehand errors when he had the court at his mercy, particularly in the fourth set.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such causelessness would bind the Soul under an even sterner compulsion, no longer master of itself, but at the mercy of movements apart from will and cause.
The Six Enneads.
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In typical British tradition, the stands around the ground are uncovered and at the mercy of the sun.
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It's a mercy that the explosion happened after the theatre.
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Not with antagonism, but through mercy, by winning people over to a fresh cast of mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are not killed, as are Easy Rider's dynamic duo, but death would seem a mercy in the face of the fate society seems to have in store for them.
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By the grace o’ Mercy, the horse swarved round, and I fell aff at the tae side as the ball whistled by at the tither, and the fell auld lord took the Whig such a swauk wi’ his broadsword that he made twa pieces o’ his head, and down fell the lurdance wi’ a’ his bouk abune me.”
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Sales are also worryingly at the mercy of our unpredictable weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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91 The light brigantines of the Greeks were scattered in ignominious flight: the nine castles of the Venetians maintained a more obstinate conflict; seven were sunk, two were taken; two thousand five hundred captives implored in vain the mercy of the victor; and the daughter of Alexius deplores the loss of thirteen thousand of his subjects or allies.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Do repent to Allah for your sins and supplicate with raised hands at the times of prayer as these are the best times, during which Allah Al-Mighty looks at His servants with mercy.
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The jury added a rider to their verdict recommending mercy.
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Littleborough charity worker Glenda is off an a mercy mission to help children affected by the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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Also, a great nation having made up its mind that hanging is quite the wholesomest process for its homicides in general, can yet with mercy distinguish between the degrees of guilt in homicides; and does not yelp like a pack of frost-pinched wolf-cubs on the blood-track of an unhappy crazed boy, or gray-haired clodpate Othello, "perplexed i 'the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is bayoneting young girls in their father's sight, and killing noble youths in cool blood, faster than a country butcher kills lambs in spring.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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The tide turned when Tamerlane invaded their territory and in 1398 successfully raided Delhi, and sacked it without mercy.
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There is neither harsh injustice nor unprincipled love nor Christological heresy in that; there is only unfathomable mercy.
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So she journeyed home - gray clad among her flowers, drawn by four hundred hands - home to the cool nave between the long columns that were fingers raised, not in admonition, but in triumphant thanksgiving for mercy, majesty, and glory.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
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It was to teach them, that the holiest amongst us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.
The Scarlet Letter
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The river was despotic and barbaric, ruling over its subjects without mercy.
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He made a plea for help/mercy.
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Our allegiance must be to a transcendent God whose righteousness and mercy are both beyond our understanding.
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A man who hid a quantity of class A drugs in the waistband of his trousers has been shown mercy by a judge.
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So, under the protection of Providence, and the mercy of footpads, I trust we shall meet again to-morrow; at all events, there is nothing huffish in this; for, whether sad or merry, I am always,
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02
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The legal position on mercy killing is unambiguous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, everyone is out for himself, the weak are at the mercy of the powerful, and the vast overwhelming majority is mired in a slave morality in which they accept the sugarcoated homilies of the powers to be.
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The virtue of justice comes wrapped in other tempering traits: gratitude, liberality, affability, and mercy.
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His life was at the mercy of the king.
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Once the ship has stopped, it is at the mercy of wind and current until steerage way can be restored.
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We have conducted debates on issues such as mercy killing and senior citizens remarrying.
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Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself.
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So saying, he hent in hand a stick 190 and flourishing it thrice in the air, was about to come down with it upon the lame ape, when the creature cried out for mercy and said to him, I conjure thee, by
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The holiest was a type of heaven, but the ark and mercy-seat were
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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I say show NO mercy, no "couth" (?), no restraint on obscenity.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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We should not object to that inequality which is natural -- to the superior ability and superior virtue which place one man far above his fellows; but we should object to an immense inequality, _which is not natural_, and which sometimes places the superior man at the mercy and in the service of one who has no ability whatever, -- who is simply born to rule by means of _hereditary wealth_.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
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We think it right to give our pets a merciful end to their suffering; but we deny such mercy to humans.
Times, Sunday Times
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As much as we have learned to be more sensitive to our energy usage patterns since the 70s, we remain at the mercy of large short-run oil price swings that precipitate economic downturns.
Mark Zupan: Oil Matters
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The true stakes of courtship put young men making offers of marriage at the mercy of the women they wooed.
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The Top Hat tried to say something, his hands flailing, his expression demanding mercy now that he was powerless.
Masked
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Such an image of God may also be of our own making, but it at least provides us with a vision of hope and faith in a God of grace, mercy, and compassion.
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For all the broad side of our barke lay in the water, and we had much adoe to recouer it, but God of his mercy deliuered vs. Mariners here may doe you good seruice all the winter otherwayes: and merchants here will be gladder to ship their goods in vs giuing good fraight.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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A Shipston dad is hoping to build up support for a mercy mission to a tsunami-hit Sri Lankan village.
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For mercy’s sake, though, Faith, don’t let him! nunc lavabo, ut rem divinam faciam, ne affinem morer quin ubi accersat meam extemplo filiam ducat domum. vide, Fides, etiam atque etiam nunc, salvam ut aulam abs te auferam: tuae fide concredidi aurum, in tuo loco et fano est situm.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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Mercy suffered minor injuries after clinging to the roof of the car.
The Sun
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He was chunky and had a baby face and came to Our Lady of Mercy as a seasoned street fighter.
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Mercy's evaluation of the third angel rose by several degrees.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE
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Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (Rom.v. 20), and mercy rejoices against judgment, as having prevailed and carried the day, Jam. ii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Noreen took her 10-year-old grand-daughter on the mercy mission.
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Today very nearly featured a mercy mission to the local hospital, until the patient in question had the nerve to be discharged before Lisa and I could turn up with the grapes.
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Ill-omened hag! unshriven be her sins nor mercy visit her on dying bed, i.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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According to Jesus' interpretation of the law, God's chief attribute is mercy, not holiness.
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One of those taking part in the mercy mission is 17-year-old Sarah.
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- for the sake of one's ears, in mercy, stop that everlasting twangle of your old fiddle!
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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In the course of that bitter conflict, Lincoln had been reviled and attacked without mercy.
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Rosica really means by the phrase “civility, charity, mercy and politeness” is a kind of pantywaist political correctness, void of testicular fortitude, that is so afraid to identify and call out blatant evil in the public square.
On Catholic Crowd-Pleasers
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As well as being erudite, witty and utterly shameless, his autobiography shows he was capable of great mercy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thailand's forests were logged without mercy following World War II, losing nearly 75 percent of their virgin stands.
