mercifulness

Example Sentences

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Was not the practice said to have been adopted at Jaffa by an extraordinary character, to be esteemed for mercifulness in comparison of this?

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

But there was no compassion, no mercifulness in their faces as they looked down at her.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

He apologizes very often for having talked and continuing to do so, but throws himself upon what he calls my mercifulness.

From We Three by Hutt, Henry

Your mercifulness and my sternness temper each other, and the result being justice, makes the mission we are pointed to fulfill a labor both of use and love.

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison

The heart, in its mercifulness and goodness, can pardon while mindful of the betrayal; the flesh has no nobility of pride; in yielding anew it forgets.

From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Pont-Jest, Ren? de