A small prune-faced man of an age with Mormont, Ser Ottyn always looked tired, even at Castle Black, and the rain had beaten him down unmercifully.

Clyde Barrow was beaten unmercifully with the black Betty in Eastham State Prison and made to run two miles to work in the cotton fields and two miles back to the lockup every workday of his sentence.

Several weeks ago, a teacher was "beaten unmercifully" by a ninth grader enraged at being barred from class because he was late, Mr. Jackson said.

Prisoners work in chains on a public road, beaten unmercifully by cabos, the prisoners they use as guards.

He was just beaten unmercifully.

She had dragged all the rugs out into the back yard, had hung them over the clothes line, and had beaten the dust out of them unmercifully.

Mr. Tyler, as good a black as any, was taken to a sheriff's substation where he was beaten unmercifully amid shouted commands that he confess.

Many Americans were beaten unmercifully, robbed, and many buildings were destroyed.