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Meanings of crowning mercy in English

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Usage of crowning mercy in English
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He fell on his knees and thanked God for this crowning mercy.
Elder Conklin and Other Stories
2
What a crowning mercy that your voyage should have been so prosperous!
The Virginians
3
So his last terrible experience turned to his crowning mercy.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
4
The moral and political effect of this " crowning mercy" was prodigious.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
5
Steggles is my groom, and my crowning mercy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 10, 1917
6
This is the crowning mercy of my career!
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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Oh hush, ideal which not consciously I was out for to-night-ideal vouchsafed to me by a crowning mercy!
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
8
His luck had held to the last, even to the crowning mercy of a kindly bullet through his head.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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The worthy New England Puritans considered it, as Cromwell did the victory at Worcester, "the crowning mercy."
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
10
I believe it is yourself that I must thank for this crowning mercy, and I do thank you gratefully.
Catriona
11
Mrs. King was saying that the crowning mercy of her life was the fact that she hadn't any children.
Captivity
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In his despatch to the House of Commons after the victory of Worcester, he called the battle a " crowning mercy."
The Leading Facts of English History
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What, if Heaven had reserved its crowning mercy till this day, and Eugene be amongst us, free, acquitted, triumphant before the night!
Eugene Aram — Volume 05
14
By the same crowning mercy in which the Lord hath vouchsafed us victory to-day shall He also deliver the malignant youth into my hands.
The Tavern Knight
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And in that hour she knew why her love lay wounded unto death, though not then did she recognise the revelation as a crowning mercy.
The Knave of Diamonds
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The administration will regard its success as being to them, what Cromwell said the battle of Worcester was to him, "a crowning mercy."
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
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