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mercedes
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mercedes is a feminine given name of Spanish origin, referring to a title for the Virgin Mary , Maria de las Mercedes ("Our Lady of Mercy").
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Spanish, abbreviation of Maria de las Mercedes "Mary of the Mercies," from plural of merced "mercy, grace," from Latin mercedem (nominative merces ); see mercy .
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 13649 Housing Units (2000): 5455 Land area (2000): 8.577634 sq. miles (22.215970 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.061773 sq. miles (0.159991 sq. km) Total area (2000): 8.639407 sq. miles (22.375961 sq. km) FIPS code: 47700 Located within: ...
Usage examples of mercedes.
His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him.
He returned to Mercedes with tears in his eyes and heaving breast, and without uttering a word he gave her the letter.
Only, during the respite the absence of his rival afforded him, he reflected, partly on the means of deceiving Mercedes as to the cause of his absence, partly on plans of emigration and abduction, as from time to time he sat sad and motionless on the summit of Cape Pharo, at the spot from whence Marseilles and the Catalans are visible, watching for the apparition of a young and handsome man, who was for him also the messenger of vengeance.
Edmond then cast his eyes scrutinizingly at the agitated and embarrassed Mercedes, and then again on the gloomy and menacing Fernand.
The following day Dantes presented Jacopo with an entirely new vessel, accompanying the gift by a donation of one hundred piastres, that he might provide himself with a suitable crew and other requisites for his outfit, upon condition that he would go at once to Marseilles for the purpose of inquiring after an old man named Louis Dantes, residing in the Allees de Meillan, and also a young woman called Mercedes, an inhabitant of the Catalan village.
I have seen Mercedes come into the city she has been accompanied by a tall, strapping, black-eyed Catalan, with a red complexion, brown skin, and fierce air, whom she calls cousin.
Ah, to have dreamed for ten years of being your husband, Mercedes, and to lose that hope, which was the only stay of my existence!
Dantes, and without relinquishing Mercedes hand clasped in one of his own, he extended the other to the Catalan with a cordial air.
Danglars followed Edmond and Mercedes with his eyes until the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort Saint Nicolas, then turning round, he perceived Fernand, who had fallen, pale and trembling, into his chair, while Caderousse stammered out the words of a drinking-song.
Absence severs as well as death, and if the walls of a prison were between Edmond and Mercedes they would be as effectually separated as if he lay under a tombstone.
Do you find the means, I will execute it, provided it is not to kill the man, for Mercedes has declared she will kill herself if Dantes is killed.
Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercedes boasted the same bright flashing eyes of jet, and ripe, round, coral lips.
Now, as a quarter-past one has already struck, I do not consider I have asserted too much in saying, that, in another hour and thirty minutes Mercedes will have become Madame Dantes.
After their departure, Fernand, who had now again become the friend and protector of Mercedes, led the girl to her home, while the friends of Dantes conducted the now half-fainting man back to his abode.
It seemed to the prisoner that he could distinguish a feminine form on the beach, for it was there Mercedes dwelt.