Before the tears came, Doctor Lee mercifully injected Robert with a powerful sedative. |
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Martin turned the ball over twice and committed two fouls during his mercifully brief stint. |
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Lots of us there lost loved ones, but only for terrifying and mercifully brief moments. |
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At this point, Zack's Aunt mercifully intervened and took him inside to feed him some pasta and fudgsicles. |
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Although we batten down all bottles and loose items, this time, mercifully, there is only a moderate swell. |
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We almost got out of the inning on our own, but mercifully, the other team had batted through the lineup, which meant it was our turn to bat. |
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Violent crime here is mercifully rare, despite some terrifying recent incidents. |
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The rogue doctor, the Hippocratic saviour turned hypocritic slayer, is a mercifully rare medical phenomenon in this country. |
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The following morning, mercifully sunny, I shopped for gifts in the back streets and then headed for the airport. |
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Breakfast, they discovered, consisted of partially-risen popovers, overcooked scrambled eggs, and, mercifully, mounds of fresh fruit. |
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Fortunately, I don't have time to take her up on her offer, so Amherst audiences were mercifully spared. |
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Quickly and mercifully, the initial apprehension disappears as the book turns into an intense and absorbing read. |
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The Pontypool fighter followed up with a quick-fire, accurate assault until Paisley's corner mercifully threw in the towel. |
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And speaking of mud, the festival mercifully escaped the rain that was lashing York. |
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I was finally, mercifully, closing the door to my religious past and beginning life anew. |
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And if you're still not convinced life's a drag, several annoying but mercifully brief musical numbers jackhammer the point home. |
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I was hanging over the edge of the bed, gagging and retching, though mercifully nothing was coming out. |
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I sailed on towards Wellington Harbour 70 miles away, saved only by the branches of a willow tree trailing mercifully within arm's reach. |
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It would be mercifully brief, but it probably wouldn't do the sheer awfulness of this film justice. |
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The first, next Thursday, will involve Gareth and I running off together to be wed in a mercifully brief ceremony. |
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The sources of these recessions varied, but all were mercifully brief, thanks in some measure to government policy. |
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If not more uniform than early induction into the military, schooling is, mercifully, the more common experience. |
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Then there is Currency Lad, who was posting reviews before his mercifully brief retirement. |
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Although foot and mouth has mercifully spared Helmsley's farmers so far, they are worried about the potential for infection, he said. |
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Thankfully, the market forces are mercifully in our favor as there are plans to start a professional cricket league in America. |
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How will we wage war mercifully, when he may deliberately move his military forces right next to civilians? |
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The interesting menu was mercifully free of obscure language and left me spoiled for choice. |
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We hung on this way for about 5 years or so and then, mercifully, Cappi's was sold. |
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The film's sheer quirkiness allows it to mercifully bypass any dime-store moralizing. |
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The very word sickens me, and the thought of my own sisters acting mercifully is almost too much to bear! |
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Enid Blyton is also a given, although her own book is mercifully free of the girlish gushiness of both. |
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In the case of the dead, we commend them to the mercy of God and ask that he judge them mercifully. |
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The squally showers that drenched the area before kick off had mercifully ceased by the time Chris took an early long-range penalty. |
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I can best describe this book as a series of masterclasses at which we are, mercifully, not required to put our executant talents under scrutiny. |
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And for a family movie set in a restaurant, Campanella mercifully spares us any panting bliss-outs on the sensual nature of food. |
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The sudden and, as it turns out, mercifully brief closure of Fibbers threw into sharp relief the lack of venues for live music in York. |
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It is also mercifully free of molehills, which are the scourge of our sandy garden. |
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But this being a variety show, a concept as outdated as the acts themselves, at least the turns were mercifully short. |
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Well at least their introductory sequence and FBI warning is mercifully brief. |
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He lasted for seven more years, and concerning these, the authors are mercifully brief. |
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The work is, mercifully, brief, for the ensuing cacophony could deafen even the toughest eardrum. |
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Allie made her way onto the beach, still clumsy legs getting relief in the mercifully soft sand. |
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There's some undeletable bloatware, though mercifully less than we've seen on other new handsets recently. |
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The event itself was well organised and mercifully free of the marketing hype that often comes with the introduction of new technology. |
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While we wait, one of us might write a speculative novel about a happy, innocent world mercifully free of insufferable literary talk. |
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It was a bright vibrant red colour, not thick, but mercifully not thin either. |
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His narration is intrusive and surplus to requirements but mercifully his lips soon go numb with the cold and he has to stop for a while. |
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The wolfdog was running around ownerless but mercifully paid me no attention. |
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Day two dawned bright and sunny, and mercifully the winds were relatively gentle. |
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That is the view of two leading experts on the topic who, yesterday, published a mercifully brief and clear summation of the situation. |
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Apart from a savage, but mercifully brief, bout of hitting by Adam Gilchrist in the early overs, the innings had belonged very much to England. |
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Following the sound of flexing paper, there were two sharp intakes of breath and the light was mercifully aimed lower, pointing at his feet. |
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Helena suffers from Type One Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a muscle wasting genetic disease from which her twin sister Saskia is mercifully free. |
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In a mercifully brief office scene, it becomes clear that Linda is the equivalent of Dracula's Jonathan Harker. |
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During her mercifully brief stay she managed to squeeze in the following complaints. |
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And though the training book is now rather dog-eared, the cat has left it mercifully unchewed. |
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Our possessions weren't important, but the hard case containing the rushes mercifully had remained in the back of the car. |
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At the town hall, there's a presentation, which is mercifully short, and then a buffet lunch, yippee. |
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Stylistically, this mercifully brief book reeks of dissertation padding. |
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Guinn is mercifully sparing with the gory details, though nothing can make them anything less than revolting. |
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The wreath tradition stuck around until he mercifully ended it. |
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Another factor to why euthanasia is such a difficult subject is that it is a complicated task to decide whether someone is of sound mind, or is justifiable to kill mercifully. |
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When the referee mercifully signalled a conclusion, the short burst of booing from the supporters became the most eloquent action of a pitiful fixture. |
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He is more dead than alive, and a diabolic revenge on him might have been to just let him suffer on, rather than mercifully put him out of his misery. |
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He has a great dry wit, and he wrote clear and mercifully short, succinct judgments. |
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On a mercifully uncongested West Side Highway, I became acquainted with the ST's intuitive 6-speed manual transmission. |
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Then, at some moment mercifully unwitnessed, an attempt to rise higher, to fly, met by an all but invisible limit, beating wings pinioned, deep instinct denied. |
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The solar-concentrator option has mercifully retained the religious relevance of the real estate goldmine of Doongerwadi. |
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Mr. Speaker, I will be mercifully shorter than the hon. member opposite who was making more of a speech than he was any kind of a point of order. |
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Many mighty miracles also took place tonight as Jesus was faithful to His Word and mercifully healed the sick. |
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One can only hope that if this is going to happen, that it be mercifully short. |
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Despite the relentlessly doomy plot, the score is mercifully varied. |
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Although it recently underwent a comprehensive refurb, in a bid to broaden its customer appeal, the interior has mercifully not been altered beyond recognition. |
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It was directional, sophisticated, fully developed and mercifully short Fashion Awards winner of the Swarovski Perry Ellis Award for Ready-to-Wear. |
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A further experiment to plant elm trees beyond center field was mercifully cut short. |
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The meetings were kept mercifully short, and were followed by an extensive buffet, and there was plenty of free time for mooching around and doing our own stuff. |
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William did so like a true professional, nestling the mercifully quiet baby comfortably in the crook of his arm. |
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Only the inevitable break-off and patch-up remain, and Petrie makes up for his shoddy handling of those crucial sequences by keeping them mercifully short. |
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So far such cases have been mercifully few and far between. |
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In any event, the confessor should not fail to use the sacramental encounter to lead penitents to some grasp of the way in which God is mercifully reaching down to them, stretching out his hand, not to strike but to save. |
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And in the not too distant future that too, mercifully, will be forgotten. |
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Yes I did not know it at the time, but my unseen friends had mercifully reached out to me in the form of The Urantia Book, truly a mission of mercy. |
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They are wounded and either drown or have to suffer still more, as a second shot, designed mercifully to finish them off, would cause a two-dollar fall in the value of the skin. |
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The fiddler has found herself with a ban that will rule her out of the next four seasons, leaving her free, perhaps mercifully, to concentrate on the Four Seasons. |
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This week, the Pakistani Taliban attacked the international airport in Karachi, the country's largest city, in a mercifully unsuccessful attempt to hijack or destroy aeroplanes. |
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It is mercifully unburdened by literary theory. |
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Diamond, after gaining 5 imps on Board 50, won another 11 imps when Gitelman made four hearts doubled while Hampson was going down five, mercifully undoubled, in three spades at the other table. |
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The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl finally, mercifully, ended. |
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The interviewer, Robert Love, was mercifully unawed. |
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Unlike the past four presidential handovers, this one is also mercifully free of the customary economic crisis. Mr Fox takes charge of a country that has started to show some of the benefits of 15 years of liberal reform. |
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He was a tall man in an expensive pin-striped galabia, and often he sat in the place of honor, staring into space, until Abu Steit mercifully called for the Fatiha. |
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The reception for our ideas has been generally pretty good, except for some flak from within my own camp, but mercifully trade questions within the EU are decided by qualified majority voting, and I have that. |
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We have mercifully left out some bottom feeders that did not make the cut in terms of minimum quality. |
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But without fluency in both languages, it is impossible to tell whether the fault lies with the novelist or the translator. Dance, mercifully, can pirouette across borders with grace. |
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The explainers steer mercifully clear of analogies, which often serve to obfuscate rather than illuminate the unintuitive world of quantum physics. |
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The rest of the score is vaguely Wagnerian arioso, but, mercifully, Tryptych provided surtitles to relieve the tedium. |
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While incidents of this magnitude are mercifully infrequent, they underline a fundamental breakdown of what should start as a common courtesy and end in sound business practice. |
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This vessel is a sacred memento of the high Work of Redemption by the Son of God, but it is not the Holy Grail of which the poets of the legends were mercifully blessed to sing praises. |
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For Brazil, mercifully, the lasting damage may ultimately be limited. |
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Indeed, the recommendations on the right of witnesses' counsel to intervene and to participate in proceedings by examining and cross-examining witnesses are mercifully restrained. |
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But the camera never examines her hands, and the movie is mercifully unequipped with Smell-O-Vision. |
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Rather than repeating the arguments-and I know we made a submission last time-I thought I'd keep it mercifully short and just address some of the key issues that have been raised since we last appeared before the committee. |
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The paperback is light, but the extreme density of the erudition makes it a kind of portable free weight that provides a strenuous mental workout before knocking one mercifully unconscious at the end of a mindless day. |
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Mr President, those of us from the United Kingdom extend all our sympathy to the constituents and fellow citizens of Georges Garot after the so far mercifully isolated outbreak in France. |
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For though we feel in us wrath, debate, and strife, yet we be all mercifully beclosed in the mildhead of God, and in his meekhead, in his benignity, and in his buxomness. |
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My parents would have abhored the idea of a dinner guest thanking them by e-mail, a mode of communication, mercifully, neither of them lived long enough to encounter. |
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