Sentence Examples

1. Or if this does not happen, and merciful Heaven watches over him and keeps him safe and sound, it may be he will be in the same poverty he was in before, and he must go through more engagements and more battles, and come victorious out of all before he betters himself but miracles of that sort are seldom seen.
2. I just wanted them to attack me already, so that I could do the only merciful thing I knew to do, but most of their presence came only from the horrible noises they produced.
3. He felt no remorse for banishing the hag, in his eyes, he was being as merciful as his anger would allow.
4. The most merciful thing would be to end it quickly.
5. That which you give, you should receive, although my cut was much more merciful than yours.
6. There he would find the merciful headsman that would relieve him of his failure.
7. Once there, he could throw off his clothes, eat a meager dinner, drink some cheap wine, and try to forget about his fate for a few precious minutes before falling into a merciful, drunken stupor.
8. But God is merciful and just, and knows your pain and your devotion to that dear Madam Mina.
9. That if his majesty, in consideration of your services, and pursuant to his own merciful disposition, would please to spare your life, and only give orders to put out both your eyes, he humbly conceived that, by this expedient, justice might in some measure be satisfied, and all the world applaud the lenity of the emperor, as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those who have the honor to be his counselors.
10. Oh, merciful heavens, was I not accessory to his death by my supine insensibility, by my contempt for him, not remembering, or not willing to remember, that it was for my sake he had become a traitor and a perjurer?