give quarter
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Which probably explains why we give quarter to all these smelly charlatans in the first place.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2012
Yet our faith in her lies in the fact that she will not give quarter to your stupid judgments.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2012
Wait a bit—but I don’t know how I am to ask you to give quarter to the fiends who did all this.
From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by W.B. Handforth
And then in a few minutes, from across the road again, and near where he was at first, came these soft words: 'Mr. Rollo—will you give quarter if I surrender at discretion?
From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner
Intellectually, it is as absurd to give quarter as it is absurd to expect it.
From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote
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