Mercies

Examples

• If I were weak now, what had I profited by those mercies? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• There are dogs about the house, and shall I leave my forlorn white children at the mercies of the dogs? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But, now I believe that the mark of the red cross is fatal to them, and that they have no part in His mercies. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But when I think of my husband, and the mercies of these people-- We will set him above their mercies very soon. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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