Sentence examples for more merciful than from inspiring English sources

"Yes, O more merciful than the gods, father — " "Your mother fucked a pig to make you".

That was more merciful than some lawyers I spoke to had expected.

"We hope the new government will be more merciful than Saddam's regime," Zaineb Khalif, the eldest daughter, said.

She was there to look for two sons, ages 16 and 17. "The Israelis were more merciful than them," she said of Hamas.

Her parents told her that God was more merciful than she thought, and that people who did good would go to Heaven on the Day of Judgment, regardless of what they believed.

Somerset ruled in loco parentis; the divinity of the crown resided in the boy king, but authority was exercised by an uncle who proved himself to be more merciful than tactful and more idealistic than practical.

Gas is a more merciful weapon than [the] high explosive shell, and compels an enemy to accept a decision with less loss of life than any other agency of war". He ended his memo on a note of ill-placed black humour: "Why is it not fair for a British artilleryman to fire a shell which makes the said native sneeze?" he asked.

Henry mopped up the remainder of the rebellion, blinding some of the rebel leaders – considered, at the time, a more merciful punishment than execution – and recovering the last rebel castles.

If you transgress, I warn you men will be no more merciful to you than those flies and ants are to that piece of fat".

Theirs is a more merciful death, however, than that inflicted upon a defeated rebel leader, Li Yizhi, by eleven successive tortures ceremoniously called Backward Disrobing Primate, Immortal Rides the Mist, Hollow Out the Eggplant, and so on.

** Theirs is a more merciful death, however, than that inflicted upon a defeated rebel leader, Li Yizhi, by eleven successive tortures ceremoniously called Backward Disrobing Primate, Immortal Rides the Mist, Hollow Out the Eggplant, and so on.