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Mercifully, the cold temperatures and driving rain were helping to keep down the odor from the public restrooms, he said.

master mercifully pacified him for a while , and then he calmed down.

Now he was mercifully snatched out of the gulf by a convincing work upon his mind, but I was left as if I was forsaken of God's grace.

Nor did they depend on an excessive deference to financial markets or to derivatives, which had mercifully not been invented.

When His Divine Grace saw he had no interest in accepting instruction, he mercifully sent him away before he could commit any more offenses.

Ben finally stopped hallucinating after about three days and a conversation with a mercifully sympathetic police officer.

He appears on screen several times during the film and mono tones along for a while before mercifully disappearing again.

Mercifully, everyone has been very kind and understanding and I've promised not to break the law again.

Watching Williams's (mercifully restrained) performance I found myself wishing my English teachers had been as inspiring.

Such change is always difficult and, perhaps mercifully, slower than the march of technology.

Outside Greece, violent confrontations between police and the crowd have been mercifully rare in the wake of the financial crisis.

Eventually, when he was on the verge of starvation, Bacchus mercifully broke the spell he was under.

The Popsicle stick was warm, the bottle was cold, and I was not Frederic. His war was over, beautifully, tragically, mercifully.

If that is right, Taiwan could yet turn out to be an international flashpoint that, mercifully, will never flash.

Recently, some manufacturers have (mercifully) begun to dial back the pixels in their cameras.

One early British recipe for "Bride's Pye" mixed cockscombs, lamb testicles, sweetbreads, oysters and (mercifully) plenty of spices.

The AA says such jams are mercifully rare in the UK, with a channel port disruption being its "very worst nightmare" .

Perhaps mercifully, he was due to escape Washington on November 5th for the pomp of a ten-day visit to Asia.

Kurukulla mercifully received the flower offering by herself as a gesture of rewarding my efforts in doing the fire puja alone.

Mercifully, the poet allows his vision to brighten before it passes, confident that the Earth forgives and restores. So let us hope.

Mercifully, the silliness of these juvenile cards stopped by about age 12, but the agony and the ecstasy of course continued.

And let me be Your moon, To mercifully end Your anguished day.

With Tokyo markets (mercifully) closed until Friday, management should now take a step back.

Mercifully, no mainstream politician espouses a return to outright protectionism.

Most of us, mercifully don't go out of our way to kill living things but how often do we kill an insect or even a small mammal needlessly ?

The descent to the passage had been mercifully filled.

Fears that Beijing's air would smoke more than its residents proved mercifully overwrought.

The Italians mercifully took the second and third words of this phrase and combined them to form algebra.

THE incompetence of Nepal's self-regarding politicians helped fuel a nasty decade-long war, mercifully ended in 2006.

It is true that Egypt has suffered from bouts of terrorism, though mercifully not much in recent years.

You give me no alternative but to end the contest swiftly and mercifully, removing the pressure before it leaves you permanently damaged.

The revolution was mercifully peaceful; but it wasn't free.

During dinner she hardly spoke, and Miss Ley was mercifully silent.

It will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once.

Mercifully, it was over before long, and we walked downstairs to start the ceremony.

There are probably a dozen or more romanization schemes out there somewhere, most of them mercifully obscure and rightfully ignored.

These, mercifully, have grown much rarer in Egypt in recent years.

But in most countries its effect was mercifully mild.

Poland's voters have now mercifully dragged it back.

It can also emit a green anal fluid that smells nearly as bad as a skunk's offensive spray (though mercifully it can easily be washed off).

Mercifully, I remembered his name just in time.

Mercifully they realize I've no time to give autographs, and so they ask only the cast members.

The corny 1978 original mercifully died after a single season.

Mercifully, the world is not at that stage yet.

The Brisbane River's height peaked on January 13th at 4. 5 metres, mercifully below 1974 levels.

Today people live to 65 and, in countries such as Japan and Canada, over 80; outside Africa, a child's death is mercifully rare.

And a firm reliance on the goodness of that Power whose providence mercifully protected our national infancy,

All this means that the modern wars of religion are mercifully less violent and all-consuming than their predecessors;

The church's fading institutional power makes it (mercifully) easier for people who were abused by clerics to speak out;