1 She looked up at him imploringly, her face crimson with the shame of their last meeting, and met two of the blackest eyes she had ever seen, dancing in merciless merriment.
2 Men lay down to die, and the last sight that met their puzzled eyes was the rails shining in the merciless sun, heat shimmering along them.
3 But all these things went down before the merciless coldness of her mind and the goad of desperation.
4 His creditor was Wick Cutter, the merciless Black Hawk money-lender, a man of evil name throughout the county, of whom I shall have more to say later.
5 Everywhere he went, from one end of the vast city to the other, there were hundreds of others like him; everywhere was the sight of plenty and the merciless hand of authority waving them away.
6 The terrific character of their merciless enemies increased immeasurably the natural horrors of warfare.
7 This woman's back, for weeks, was kept literally raw, made so by the lash of this merciless, religious wretch.
8 I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave.
9 He had been dragged by the merciless government.
10 By the time the depleted regiment had again reached the first open space they were receiving a fast and merciless fire.
11 No other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER TH... 12 He saw that it was a merciless war between us--a war to the death.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 13 Lord of Thymbra, give us an enduring dwelling-place; grant a house and family to thy weary servants, and a city to abide: keep Troy's second fortress, the remnant left of the Grecians and merciless Achilles.
14 Straightway avenging Tisiphone, girt with her scourge, tramples down the shivering sinners, menaces them with the grim snakes in her left hand, and summons forth her sisters in merciless train.
15 He knew that for this, for the very fact that his heart was torn with grief, they would be merciless to him.