What is "unmercifully"

Usage examples of "unmercifully".

Last night she opened her habit and scourged herself unmercifully and in a way that I cannot in modesty describe.

They arrive here, and breed early in the spring--sometimes, indeed, before the snow is off the hills--get their young off in June, and with their young are most unmercifully, most unsportsmanly, thinned off, when they can hardly fly--such is the error, as I think it, of the law--but I could not convince my stanch friends, Philo, and J.

Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the leeboard of a Dutch schuyt.

Greeks unmercifully about their complaints, saying that they themselves felt quite refreshed, since after all, we were still traveling through the relatively cool Pisidian mountains.

It is still in fashion, and is the only method that can boast the age of thirty years, though it was so unmercifully ridiculed at first.

Every year we trek to their gathering in Twinsburg, Ohio, and set up booths and hound them unmercifully to get them to participate in all kinds of studies.

When the horrified gnolls turned in unison toward her and Tarl and started to charge, she leveled the staff again and blasted away unmercifully.

I must give fair notice to my readers that, if they are fond of such people, they must not read these Memoirs, for they belong to a tribe which I have good reason to attack unmercifully.

The skin under the retainers was flushed with the heat, and his laterals throbbed unmercifully.

Alone in my room I made an inventory of my trunk, and having put aside everything of an ecclesiastical character, I sent for a Jew, and sold the whole parcel unmercifully.

He is straightway surrounded by them, and, on giving his name as the “Sleeping Bard,” a shadowy claimant to that name sets upon him and belabours him most unmercifully until Merlin bid him desist.

We are of the opinion that all interference by peers with the constituencies of the country should be put down by the strong hand of the law as thoroughly and unmercifully as we are putting down ordinary bribery.

An abbé or soldier is unmercifully beaten and dragged into the Tuileries basin.

To them, any bird of prey must be harassed, but goshawks must be unmercifully bedeviled.

Kor's Accursed had dragged him, perhaps by the cutting edges of his fetters, for his wrists burned unmercifully.