What is "mercifully"

Usage examples of "mercifully".

For the meat eaters, a number of giant baloneys were set to roasting whole on spits, to be turned and attentively basted with a grape-jelly glaze by once-quarrelsome kitchen staff while others made croutons from old bread, bustling about while the spinach thawed, singing along with the radio, which someone had mercifully re-tuned to a rock and roll station.

He was followed by Holyoak, the commission counsel, and Roderick Pritchett, neither of whom gave Nim a hard time and both were mercifully brief.

The VW Microbus was on its side, the corpses of the three or four occupants a tangle of arms and legs that was mercifully hard to see in the fast-failing light.

The sea monody melted in its turn into the waltz strains rippling from the piano standing in the old drawing-room at Kensington, and Bob pulled his wits together just in time to save himself from falling into the unconsciousness which had already mercifully enwrapped the old man.

Such repeated attacks were mercifully infrequent, and Anna Grigoryevna attributes the one she describes to the nervous strain, as well as the obligatory overindulgence in drink, of the postnuptial visits.

Others have more wisely maintained that all will finally be saved: however severely and long they may justly suffer, they will at last all be mercifully redeemed by God and admitted to the common heaven.

Mercifully, this High Septon was not as long-winded as the fat one had been.

He was a good-looking youth and mercifully unaddicted to the extremes of fashion favoured by the Macaroni Club but his face was constantly overlaid with an expression of petulance and his manners frequently careless to the point of rudeness.

As the sun had begun its slow ascent over Lochnagargoyle, he had fallen into a deep and mercifully dreamless sleep that now, as he unglued his face from the pillow, made him too slow-witted and thick-headed to appreciate the generosity of the gift Pandora was offering him.

Our Alaskan dream had become a nightmare from which mild shock was mercifully separating me.

The flashover effect as she opened the door with one foot ignited a huge fireball, blowing her and her baby out into the snow where they mercifully died.

The body of Gorlitz, trapped there, had mercifully fallen into the sea.

Fat Lady was snoozing and not pleased to be woken, but swung forward grumpily to allow them to clamber into the mercifully peaceful and empty common room.

There are moments of which no man can recall his mental impressions, moments so acutely horrible that, mercifully, our memory retains nothing of the emotions they occasioned.

It was in a small boat, and it had a great nodding, spongelike head that was, mercifully, turned away from him.