mercy stroke
Example Sentences
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Catlin and Inman and every traveller familiar with the great plains region between the Arkansas and Saskatchewan testify that the quick death of the bullet was, indeed, the mercy stroke compared to nature's end of her wild creatures.
From Project Gutenberg
To such the hunter's shot was a mercy stroke.
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