Sentence examples for cry for mercy from inspiring English sources

Though the bookshelves cry for mercy under the weight of Mafia literature, Reppetto's book earns its place among the best, in part because he rarely lapses into belly-full-of-lead prose.

Nylund easily negotiated her high cry for mercy in the Agnus dei, less desolate than in some readings, but a troubling foil – as Beethoven intended – to the choral pleas for peace: Dona nobis pacem.

On the other hand, Mr Erdogan might opt for a third election in order to get his way, recalling for one well-read observer the king in a Saki short story who holds an election every day until his subjects cry for mercy.

"Listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief".

All the victims stagger about, reaching up with their pustule-covered hands, crying for mercy.

Felicity kept on, but now her screams became short little cries for mercy.

When the prostitute cries for mercy, Hyde mocks his victim, contorting his voice and features into a caricature of hers.

His gun-toting silhouette looks like an immediate threat; his muffled cries for mercy lost in a hail of bullets.

Murphy's tone is calm, even good-humored, but he can vibrate to the victims' preserved cries for mercy, which he reproduces from transcripts that the Inquisition kept.

Even as the killing wound down, the "air was filled with cries for mercy; on every breeze came the wailing of women and the screams of children".

As an explanation, they said: "They leaked logs, we owned them [took over their computer], one of them literally started crying for mercy".