The catch, made with two on and two out, mercifully ended a three-run Toronto seventh.

The bell rang, mercifully ending the lunch hour.

The wounded dog had been lifted from the horn that impaled it, and the poor hound's agony ended swiftly and mercifully.

The streak died last night and Mariano Rivera bagged the final four outs to mercifully end a 3-hour-48-minute affair.

Reggie Sanders struck out, mercifully ending the inning, but the carnage went on.

Still, the counting continues, and eventually, when Darfur's violence mercifully ends, a number will be agreed upon.

Today - Election Day - the advertising will mercifully end and so, finally, will the suspense.

Then he mercifully ends our layup circus to suggest a little full-court four-on-four.

That only lasted for a few moments, though, before it mercifully ended.

It makes a plea for healing and for the kind of community in which that isolation will mercifully end.