Word: mercilessness
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...devastating breath more merciless than that of the flames, the rough and searching blasts of our Boston east winds, found or developed in that young and devoted life the seeds of consumption, and before he had time to impress his character upon the community in which he had cast his lot, death took him off in the latter part of 1638. You know that by a will he had rendered it possible for the purpose of the infant Colony, which had been recorded two years before, to be carried out, - a will which no man has told...
...proverb of the crusts of bread, entrusted to the tender care of the merciless waves, which returned after many days in the shape of countless biscuits and rolls. has once more been exemplified; and this time somewhat nearer home than the scene of the original occurrence. A little less than a year ago the predecessor of the DAILY CRIMSON in the province of daily journalism at Harvard, gave vent to its long pent-up feelings on the subject of the strange language in which the Quinquennial catalogue has been printed since the dark ages. This language was reported on good...
Three bankrupts were posted in merciless print...
...Boston engagement. What is more, this bad reputation will cling to you through college. Your instructors will regard you as your conduct leads them to suppose that you regard them, - as a natural enemy; and every stroke of work that you do will be criticised with the most merciless rigor. On the other hand, if in the beginning you are reasonably attentive to your books, and, above all, if you flatter the tutor's self-love by taking copious notes, and by appearing to be interested in his numerous remarks, you will soon be distinguished from the great body...
...which a writer in the Advocate paraded in all its broken splendor, where each table was represented as having signed away its birthright to beer and brandy for the services of an undivided waiter, and then to have been cruelly defrauded of several shares in that waiter by a merciless College, - we can only answer that that scheme (alias contract) existed only in and for the year 1874-75, as is stated clearly in the head lines of that instrument...