Merci sees himself lost beyond redemption; his best regiments are defeated; nightfall is the salvation of the remainder of his army.
These are adorned with some beautiful and ingenious devices, such as an elegant cross surrounded by the words ~ihu merci ladi help~ (Plate 14) and the Royal Arms surmounted by a crown.
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI JOHN KEATS 'O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
In the morning four more companies went down to relieve those who had been at work all night, and these had made great progress when, in the afternoon, the news came that Merci was marching with all his strength towards Nordlingen.
This, however, we shall do, if news comes that Merci is marching to give us battle before that city, which we expect he will do.
Merci brought the whole of his cavalry into play, but Turenne was unable to use his, as they were behind his infantry and could not make their way out through the mouth of the defile.
He therefore marched to Venecher, captured Wimpfen, and threw a bridge across the river, whereupon General Merci fell back twenty leagues into Franconia.
Merci ordered his cavalry to dismount, and led them into the fray, but, darkness falling suddenly, the assailants ceased to attack, and occupied for the night the ground on which the struggle had taken place.
They carried the intrenchments Merci had thrown up at the mouth of the pass, and, heedless of the firing of the guns, rushed at the village.
Not wholly," Turenne replied, "for Merci has taken up a position as strong as that from which we have driven him.
The main body of the army, under Merci himself, lay behind a village a couple of hundred yards beyond the hills, and at the head of the passage between them.
It bears the legend in Norman French: + "Trestui: ke par hiei passerui Pur le alme Warel prieui: Ke Deu par sa grace Verrey merci li face.
By my faith, Charles Vaudemont will come rather late, If he stay till Count Merci shall open that gate!
Yet they rush to the ramparts, the clocks have tolled ten, And Count Merci retreats with the half of his men.
Count Merci has seized upon cannon and wall, Prince Eugene's headquarters are in the Town-hall!
JOHN KEATS LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI 'O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
Las Belle Dame sans Merci 'O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
And amorously lift up your hedis all, Thank Lufe that list you to his merci call!
The confederates were posted at Sanguina, and the Imperialists at Sorbola, when the count de Merci made a motion to San Prospero, as if he intended either to attack the enemy, or take possession of Parma.
The marquis de Lede immediately retired with his army to Alcamo, from whence he sent his mareschal de camp to count Merciand the English admiral, with overtures for evacuating Sicily.
Count Merciassumes the Command of the Imperial Army in Sicily.
They said 'La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall.
I saw pale Kings and Princes too Pale warriors death-pale were they all They cried--La belle dame sans merci Thee hath in thrall.
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI O what can ail thee Knight at arms Alone and palely loitering?
And after this if thou desire To stonde ayein the vice of Ire, Consaile thee with Pacience, And tak into thi conscience Merci to be thi governour.
And natheles this dar I seie, That if a sinful wolde preie 3490 To god of his foryivenesse With half so gret a besinesse As I have do to my ladi, In lacke of askinge of merci He scholde nevere come in Helle.
Hate is a wraththe noght schewende, Bot of long time gaderende, And duelleth in the herte loken, Til he se time to be wroken; 860 And thanne he scheweth his tempeste Mor sodein than the wilde beste, Which wot nothing what merci is.
Bot war hem wel in other place, Where every man behoveth grace, Bot ther I trowe it schal hem faile, To whom no merci mihte availe, Bot wroghten upon tiraundie, That no pite ne mihte hem plie.
He kneleth in his wise and braieth, To seche merci and assaieth His god, which made him nothing strange, Whan that he sih his pride change.
Yes, I shall make my farewell; I shall say my Merci and depart and there.
Once more mercifor everything, and let us part like Karmazinov and the public; that is, let us forget each other with as much generosity as we can.
Three days before he had handed him his manuscript Merci (which he had meant to read at the literary matinee at Yulia Mihailovna's fete).
Marya Timofyevna took the cup and at once went off into a giggle at having said merci to the footman.
En toy ay m'esperance eu Quant a merci m'as receu 50 Autre foys en mainte guise, Du bien qui ou ciel fu creu As ravive et repeu M'ame qui estoit occise.
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI Keats is here the magical poet, as he is the intellectual poet in the great sonnet following; and it is his possession or promise of both imaginations that proves him greater than Coleridge.
And rycht as God has gevin to the Knycht pithe, hardynes, and hye curage, rycht sa has he gevin him pitee in hert, to haue merci of the pure that gretis on him; askand help and consort for traist that thai haue in thame of help.
Quhethir, gif the Duke of the bataill be tane, men suld haue merci of him, and saue his lyf.
And yet, whenever we have to perform this disagreeable duty, the conversation usually ends with a "Merci quand meme.
Thi thone was studevast ant trewe; For the joye that to was newe, Levedi, thou have merci of me!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merci" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
