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1  For my sake, then, be merciful to my husband.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III. The Shadow
2  We will set him above their mercies very soon.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V. The Wood-Sawyer
3  As it pleased Heaven in its mercy to restore him so soon, I should have great hope.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX. An Opinion
4  But, now I believe that the mark of the red cross is fatal to them, and that they have no part in His mercies.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
5  Madame Defarge wore no rose in her head, for the great brotherhood of Spies had become, even in one short week, extremely chary of trusting themselves to the saint's mercies.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII. The Sea Still Rises
6  Then, began one of those extraordinary scenes with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness, or their better impulses towards generosity and mercy, or which they regarded as some set-off against their swollen account of cruel rage.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. Triumph
7  His latent uneasiness had been, that bad aims were being worked out in his own unhappy land by bad instruments, and that he who could not fail to know that he was better than they, was not there, trying to do something to stay bloodshed, and assert the claims of mercy and humanity.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
8  Once, he went aloft, and the rope broke, and they caught him shrieking; twice, he went aloft, and the rope broke, and they caught him shrieking; then, the rope was merciful, and held him, and his head was soon upon a pike, with grass enough in the mouth for all Saint Antoine to dance at the sight of.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII. The Sea Still Rises