1 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.
2 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.
3 "I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy," he said.
4 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.
5 For one night, he had had her at his mercy but now she knew the weakness of his armor.
6 Selden met this with an unusual seriousness: she had never seen him so little master of the situation, so plainly at the mercy of any obstructions she might put in his way.
7 But, mercy, I didn't mean to go on like this about myself, with you sitting there looking so fagged out.
8 No mercy, no power but its own controls it.
9 No, no, it wasn't; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still.
10 "The corpusants have mercy on us all," cried Stubb, again.
11 The negroes may as well understand that there is no mercy for the negro rapist and little patience with his defenders.
12 The old fiddle squeaks and shrieks in protest, but Tamoszius has no mercy.
13 There would be no one to hear them if they cried out; there would be no help, no mercy.
14 The men were at the mercy of the cattle.
15 They might have mercy on him there, or he might meet a friend.