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1  She knew she had no business exposing human lives to the hard little man's mercies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
2  For one night, he had had her at his mercy but now she knew the weakness of his armor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIV
3  "I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  It was as if Tony's appearance that wild rainy night had stripped merciful blinders from her eyes and forced her to see the true uncertainty of her life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  But as long as she was where the wounded could see her, she was gentle, sympathetic and cheerful, and the men in the hospitals called her an angel of mercy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Sugar always caught more flies than vinegar, as Mammy often said, and she was going to catch and subdue this fly, so he could never again have her at his mercy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  She tried to think of all the things Mammy and Ellen had done for her when Wade was born but the merciful blurring of the childbirth pains obscured almost everything in mist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  These convicts were so far away from everything, so completely at the mercy of Johnnie Gallegher, and if he chose to whip them or otherwise mistreat them, she would probably never know about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  I'll admit and brag about my services to the Confederacy and, if worst comes to worst, I'll join their damned Klan--though a merciful God could hardly lay so heavy a penance on my shoulders as that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  "Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  Coming home in the dark, he would try, as usual, to jump every fence between Twelve Oaks and Tara and, she hoped, by the mercy of Providence and the good sense of his horse, would escape breaking his neck.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
13  There was a merciful dullness in her mind now, a dullness that she knew from long experience would soon give way to sharp pain, even as severed tissues, shocked by the surgeon's knife, have a brief instant of insensibility before their agony begins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
14  The civil courts still functioned after a fashion but they functioned at the pleasure of the military, who could and did interfere with their verdicts, so that citizens so unfortunate as to get arrested were virtually at the mercy of the military authorities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  If she had ever had him at her mercy, seen him grown passionate, importunate, jealous, sulky, pleading, like the other boys, the wild infatuation which had possessed her would have passed, blowing away as lightly as mist before sunshine and light wind when she met a new man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXI