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
My opponent was not one of the sort to give quarter.
From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed
I tell the ministers, I will neither give quarter nor take it.
From The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick
Nor let us, while dissipating the remaining prejudices of outsiders, give quarter to those which linger among players themselves.
From The Drama by Henry Brodribb Irving
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