I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.