547 examples of merciless in sentences

The French were very hard upon him when he got into trouble, and certainly his own Government was merciless to him.

Then one saw Monk, alarmed by the sudden failure of the lights, hurrying out to return to the bridge, the pantherish spring upon the victim's back, the swift, dextrous noosing of the handkerchief about his windpipe, the merciless tightening of itall abruptly illuminated by the white glare of Phinuit's electric torch.

Merciless Reaper, no more shalt thou keep her From fond eyes that weep her for ever and ever, Vain thine endeavour our spirits to sever, Take my soul with thee, Angel of Heaven, Bear me unto her, Angel of Heaven.

Women can be much more merciless than men in this kind of inquisition; and Ida, weary in mind and body and spirit, suffered acutely under the ordeal.

It is no uncommon thing to see a litter of puppies with their mother nestled in a mat placed on purpose for them in a nook by some charitable Mussulman of the neighbourhood; for notwithstanding their merciless military practices, the Turks are pitiful-hearted Titans to dumb animals and slaves.

His verses on the Princess Charlotte weeping, and his other merciless satire on her father, begot him no friends, and armed the hatred of his enemies.

He stared at the shrunken skin and the merciless outline on the napkin, and a feeling of horror came over him.

"Yes," Avery admitted, feeling the hot colour flood her face under the merciless scrutiny of the stone-grey eyes.

He ravaged the eastern coast with merciless fury, and put ashore all the English hostages at Sandwich, after having cut off their hands and noses.

The houses were reduced to ashes by the merciless Normans; the cattle seized and driven away; the instruments of husbandry destroyed; and the inhabitants compelled either to seek for a subsistence in the southern parts of Scotland, or if they lingered in England, from a reluctance to abandon their ancient habitations, they perished miserably in the woods from cold and hunger.

The prospect pleased them all so much that they made light of the merciless jostling received in that springless wagon over wretched Virginia shore roads.

The Tartars are covetous, irascible, deceitful, and merciless, beyond all men; yet, through the rigour of discipline which is exercised by their superiors, they are restrained from brawls and mutual strife.

The lion does not imbrue his claws in blood, unless called upon by hunger, or provoked by interruption; whereas the merciless Dutch, more savage than the brutes themselves, not only murder their fellow-creatures without any provocation or necessity, but even make a diversion of their sufferings, and enjoy their pain.

Laws have now been made to help protect the poor fur Seal from its merciless hunters.

The chapter I am about to present is one of war,cruel, merciless, relentless war; therefore repulsive, and only interesting from the magnitude of the issues, fought out, indeed, on a narrow strip of territory.

Who more merciless than you on slugs and other pests that fly or crawl?

Hoaxing, a style of amusement fortunately out of fashion how, was almost a passion with him, and his practical jokes were as merciless as his satire.

The spirit with which all their merciless treatment is to be borne is next pointed out.

" The merciless repetition settled it for Bobby.

He was merciless in his search for money.

But she scolded her sharply, and was so merciless as to say, "Since you have let the shuttle fall in, you must fetch it out again.

In particular, although the whole district suffered, it was in the vale of the Nith, and in the hilly portion of the parish of Closeburn, that the fury of Grierson, Dalzell, and Johnstonenot to mention an occasional simoom, felt on the withering approach of Clavers with his lambswas felt to the full amount of merciless persecution and relentless cruelty.

He whom ye seek is not here; nor will the God he serves and you defy, ever suffer him, I fervently hope and trust, to fall into your merciless and unhallowed hands.

His expression was marked with merciless determination.

Markham was following Olga's artistic dissertation with the eye of dubiety, but their hostess was merciless.

547 examples of  merciless  in sentences