Merciful

Examples

• The aspect of piteous distress on his face, almost as imploring a merciful and kind judgment from his child, gave her a sudden sickening. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Hope, almost life, hangs on your answer; therefore, dear Ponsonby be merciful, and so may God bless you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Oh merciful Death, let me see it before your arms enfold me, before your voice whispers to me, Rest at last! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As He is good and merciful, she will live to bless us all, for years to come. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The way to relieve your mind is to speak to the merciful and Christian mistress who has always been kind to you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Gods be merciful and quench it! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For my sake, then, be merciful to my husband. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She will put her hands together and pray you to be merciful. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Yet the cold was merciful, for it was the cold night air and the rain that restored me from a swoon on the stones of the causeway. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was not merciful with her, and he made her do it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The gracious and merciful Heavens forbid! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And if corporations have been slow to adopt such merciful devices, legislatures have stepped in to help the matter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Merciful heavens--a bad sign? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• If you do not love her it is the most merciful thing in the long run to leave her as she is. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Ah, you ARE kind--you're merciful--you always were! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The son inheriting, was so merciful as to forgive me both, and place me here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On the tenth day it pleased a merciful Providence to relieve our household from all further anxiety and alarm. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But please Heaven yours will be restored to you, as a merciful merciful Providence has brought me back mine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Now, merciful Heaven be thanked for that old time, and grant, O Blessed Lord, that through thy wonderful workings it may turn to good at last! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is merciful in the administration of justice. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Then the knife came down, swift and merciful. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I shall remain here beside my Princess until a merciful death releases me from my anguish. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Usually she would have been interested about her uncle's merciful errand on behalf of the criminal, but her late agitation had made her absent-minded. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I only plead with you for a more accurate and more merciful construction of motives. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And when the time comes--may it come soon, if it be His merciful pleasure! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We were all disposed to wonder, but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no guile should not suffer. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• As he was not merciful, he would sometimes wound and wound again, without noticing how much he hurt, or caring how deep he thrust. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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