Some calls he is bound to obey, at whatever cost of time or strength,illness, certain public duties, and real spiritual needs,but his life must not be at the mercy of cranks, or of idle persons' whims.

Oh, God ha' mercy on us!" mocked Patricia.

It would only be an act of mercy to the colonists, who lived in momentary fear, not so much of sudden death as of barbarous torture.

There was no mercy in him for Patricia or for himself.

There was no mercy for the man worker.

" Mr. Trail looked as if he would have preferred more mercies from Heaven.

But now came a woman pale and worn, who threw herself on trembling knees at Sir Pertolepe's stirrup, and, bowed thus before him in the dust, raised a passionate outcry, supplicating his mercy with bitter tears and clasped hands lifted heavenwards.

SIR EDWARD S. CREASY Triumphs of Hildebrand "The Turning-point of the Middle Ages" Henry IV Begs for Mercy at Canossa (A.D. 1073-1085) ARTHUR R. PENNINGTON ARTAUD DE MONTOR Completion of the Domesday Book (A.D. 1086) CHARLES KNIGHT Decline of the Moorish Power in Spain Growth and Decay of the Almoravide and Almohade Dynasties (A.D. 1086-1214)

I call on nature too to keep my sighs, My scattered tears to take and recombine, And give to him who loves that fair again: More happy he perchance shall move those eyes To mercy by the griefs wherewith I pine, Nor lose the kindness that from me is ta'en! XXXIII.

"A plague o' such mercy as thine!" said Little John, sitting up and feeling his ribs where the Tanner had cudgeled him.

No sooner had the dire news arrived that peace had been made with the Congress, and that each of the thirteen United States was free to show uncovenanted mercies towards its own Loyalists, than the exodus began.

I am earnestly entreated to exhort the king to mercy toward a number of corrupt souls who had done much mischief for many years; and I am strongly inclined to comply with the request.

" "God forbid, Mr. Marston," rejoined Danvers, "that I should induce the unhappy man to forfeit his last chances of escape, and to shut the door of human mercy against himself, but on this he seems already resolved; he says so; he has solemnly declared his resolution to me; and even against my warning, again and again reiterated the same declaration.

She had promised to save Mr. Holymead if she could, but that promise had sprung less from the spirit of mercy than from the desire to save her father's name from a scandal, which would hold him up to public obloquy.

The disrespectful arrogance of the aspen, however, did not escape the notice of the Holy Child, who thereupon pronounced a curse against it, whereupon its leaves began to tremble, and have done so ever since: "Once as our Saviour walked with men below, His path of mercy through a forest lay; And mark how all the drooping branches show What homage best a silent tree may pay.

" "Alarm, Carlo!" "Or, at least, distrust; for these wily senators do no act of mercy without a motive.

wa rah matun lil moaminina" which being interpreted means, "We send down from the Koran that which is a cure and a mercy unto true believers."

This was displayed to him by angels; for it belongs not to Satan to show that expiation is possible, and the father of lies and despair never exhibits the works of Divine Mercy before men.

They seemed to cry to her for mercy out of a depth of suffering that she could not bear to contemplate.

Reign’d tyranny, warfare, and every crime; The world a desert—no oasis green A man-loving soul on its surface had seen; Then mercy above a mandate sent forth An Eden to form—a refuge for worth.

Sir, I confess I'm culpable, And were it not a sin equal to that, To doubt you could forgive me, I durst not hope your mercy after it.

Hence, while Christianity brought multiplied forms of mercy into the world, it failed for many centuries to humanize the savage forms of justice; and rack and wheel, fire and fagot were the modes by which human justice aspired to a faint imitation of what divine justice was supposed to extend through eternity.

She was not rich in this world's goods, but she was affluent in tenderness, sympathy, and love, and out of the fullness of her heart, she was a real minister of mercy among the poor and degraded.

Finally she, too, was stricken with brain fever, which intervened as a mercy between her and the great sorrow that was overshadowing her young life.

It is a mercy beyond man's conception, that we are commanded, "Be ye holy, for I am holy.