The torture would come soon for information or revenge or both but with any luck it would be mercifully quick.

It was a messy, intentionally humiliating death, but, by the standards of its era, mercifully quick.

The process was mercifully quick, but it still felt like he was being ransacked.

The fact that the execution would be mercifully quick - unlike a death in partisan hands - was of small comfort to David.

The aneurysm killed him, and it was mercifully quick.

The fighting was savage and unrestrained, but mercifully quick.

"When it is strong enough to kill, it's mercifully quick."

If this be so, then may my demise be mercifully quick.

I say kill them mercifully quick, commend their souls to the Spirit, and move on to the next crisis.

The first day of trial was mercifully quick.