That way she'd know it wasn't as merciless as it had sounded.

Perhaps in your place I should be as merciless as you-Godknows.

Love is merciless: as merciless to its votary as to its victim: For

And she looked at once as merciless as she expected him to be.

Germans have been cast as merciless during the euro crisis.

They were as merciless to the Christian as the Christian had been to them.

They were men wholly dominated by a single fixed idea, as merciless as machines.

They were thieves as clever and as merciless as himself.

Now, if the revolt has broken out, they will be as merciless as tigers.

Henry VI was a ruler dreaded by contemporaries as merciless to the last degree.

Those black eyes had been as merciless as a spider's.

But she was as merciless as Dolly, and showed not the least sign of relenting.

Perhaps you will remember hereafter that your language has been inconsistent as well as merciless.

Mr. Lincoln's cross-examination was as merciless as sunlight "falling round a helpless thing."

Charlemagne's proselytizing campaigns had been as merciless as Mahomet's.

The convent had ere this shown itself as merciless to true lovers as the grave itself.