Synonyms for tender mercies

Grammar : Noun

Définition of tender mercies

As in short shrift : noun short end of the deal

Example sentences :

And into the arms and to the tender mercies of this Delilah I had given myself.
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

At any rate she must not be left to the tender mercies of that brutal man.
Extract from : « The Elm Tree Tales » by F. Irene Burge Smith

She is not abandoned by her own men to the tender mercies of shore people.
Extract from : « The Mirror of the Sea » by Joseph Conrad

Their tender mercies are cruel, but there is a reason why it is so.
Extract from : « Three Years on the Plains » by Edmund B. Tuttle

Then we're left for evermore to the tender mercies of Toddlekins?
Extract from : « A harum-scarum schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil

And did you think I had vanished and left you to the tender mercies of that old fool?
Extract from : « The Rider of Waroona » by Firth Scott

Meantime, she left him to the tender mercies of the happy spinster.
Extract from : « Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter » by Lawrence L. Lynch

Oh, madame, by the tender mercies of God, I implore you to help me and not forsake me.
Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Maurus Jkai

“I must leave him to your tender mercies,” said Vrouw Margaret.
Extract from : « Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin » by William H. G. Kingston

These are to be left behind to the tender mercies of the Tenawa chief.
Extract from : « The Lone Ranche » by Captain Mayne Reid

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