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There appears to be traceable also a feeling of a special, though less painful, kind against unmercifulness.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

What awful woe of sudden unprotectedness when life exists only through protection—what piteous panic in the midst of black unmercifulness, inarticulate sound howsoever wildly shrill can neither explain nor express.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

"Thou seest what unmercifulness thou dost compel us to adopt, amantissime!" said the brother apologetically, but still holding him aloft with one hand and shaking a reproving finger at him with the other.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r

When charity goes away, these wild and savage beasts of darkness come forth, viz. bitter envying and strife, rigid censuring and judging, unmercifulness and implacableness of spirit upon others' failings and offences.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

There is an element of unmercifulness in the candour of La Rochefoucauld which is distressing to sentimentalists.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund