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The knights were, therefore, chosen as the vehicle for the popular indignation, and the result justified the choice. The impatience of a hampered commerce, and perhaps of an outraged feeling of respectability, spent itself without mercy on the devoted heads of some of the proudest leaders of the faction that had so long controlled the destinies of the State.
"I forget now what took me to Bristol: but there I was one day when I happened to see what do you think? a girl sixteen I a stripling of nineteen, or so but she most precocious, spoke like a woman a grating in a wall between us. Ah, well, God is good, and His Mercy endureth for ever.
Dolores regarded the pair silently; her expression changed slowly from irritation to query; from unbelief to amusement, and after a moment's reflection she smiled without softness and said: "Milo, I would do much for thee. For double dealing I have no mercy. If thy love-bird would have me believe, if she is ought to thee, bid her seek Sancho and bring him to me.
He shook his fists with rage at the released magistrates, so lately his prisoners, exclaiming that to his misplaced mercy it was owing that his head, instead of their own, was to be placed upon the block. He bitterly reproached the citizens for their cowardice in shrinking from dealing a blow for their fatherland, and in behalf of one who had so faithfully served them.
Answering myself, "No, surely"; and that because there were so many weaknesses in me; yes, so many weaknesses in my best duties. For, thought I, how can such an one as I find mercy, whose heart is so ready to evil, and so backward to that which is good, so far as it is natural.
We must have experienced it before we can exercise it. And, second, we must exercise it, if we desire to continue to experience it. 'Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. That applies to Christian people. But behind that there lies the other truth, that in order to be merciful we must first of all have received the initial mercy of cancelled transgression.
I'll come every day from now until Christmas, and I charge twenty-five cents a week for it." I knew my face was rambler red. I hated to mention money, but I hated worse not to have any to buy Miss Katherine a present with. If she thought twenty-five cents a week too high she could say so. But she didn't. "Mercy, Mary Cary!" she said, "do you mean it? Would I like you to come?
Law of a people who boast of mercy and truth and equal rights and justice to all. Law of a land with rivers of gold and mountains of silver, the sum of its wealth astounding the world. What's to be done about it? Nothing.
"Let there be none to extend mercy unto him; neither let there be none to favor his fatherless children. "Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. "But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for Thy name's sake; because Thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.... I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth."
"You mean that you would lead us up to his very den, where we should be at the mercy of his men," he said. "I have already said that, with one exception, none of his men shall be within a league of where you are to meet him." "I do not see how you are going to bring him so far from his men, if you do not go for him." "Leave that to me.
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