merciful vs stony

merciful

adj
  • Showing mercy. 

stony

adj
  • As hard as stone. 

  • Of an action or expression such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion. 

  • Containing or made up of stones. 

  • Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion. 

How often have the words merciful and stony occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )