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Sentences starting with mere

Mere lukewarm satisfaction would not content her in the case of the Emperor Charles; she wished to arouse his enthusiasm, his rapture. [10]
Mere St. George looked up from the paper, startled and frightened too. [11]
Mere Langlois would have bought the fruit-dish also if she could have afforded to bid against Virginie Poucette; but the latter would have had the dish if it had cost her two hundred dollars. [11]
Mere fables, doubtless; but they showed the common belief, that Elsie, with all her strange and dangerous elements of character, had yet strong religious feeling mingled with them. [6]
Mere acquaintances hugged and kissed each other and cried. [5]
Mere merit, fitness and capability, are useless baggage to you without "influence. [5]
Mere living is a kind of happiness, and the easy-going traveler is satisfied with little to do and less to see, Let the reader not understand that we are recommending him to go to Baddeck. [4]
Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power, except where the acquiescence of the people and the States can be considered as well settled. [7]
Mere pocket money! [5]
Mere brawn, Pierre. [11]

Short sentences using mere

This may be mere suspicion. [7]
This is, however, mere speculation. [4]
And what are mere rumours? [10]
It is empty--a mere nothing! [10]
That could be mere instinct. [5]
Literature was a mere chance. [4]
This is mere desperation. [7]
It was mere bargaining. [11]
Mere convictions? [5]
Mere beliefs? [5]

Sentences containing mere two or more times

Is the habit of good living mere habit and mere acting, in which the real man never lives his real life, or is it the real life? [11]
My poems are mere Cairngorms, wrought up, perhaps, with a cunning hand, and may pass well in the market as long as Cairngorms are the fashion; but they are mere Scotch pebbles, after all. [4]
The novel of mere adventure or mere plot, it need not be urged, is of a lower order than that in which the evolution of characters and their interaction make the story. [4]
Often, of course, it was mere heedlessness, mere want of reflection. [5]
She did not hear what Mere Langlois called after her, for Mere Langlois had been slow to recover from the unexpected violence dealt by one whom she had always bullied. [11]
If the war continues long, as it must if the object be not sooner attained, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion--by the mere incidents of the war. [7]
His mere name carries a shudder with it to distant lands--just he mere name; and when he frowns, the shadow of it falls as far as Rome, and the chickens go to roost an hour before schedule time. [5]
The shops here are mere coops, mere boxes, bath-rooms, closets--any thing you please to call them--on the first floor. [5]
Or was this, after all, mere animalism, mere superficial vitality, love of health and being? [11]
If it is a mere machine, it will do little more to lift the nation than the mere ability to read will lift it. [4]

More example sentences with the word mere in them

He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
Well, then, do you think I'd care what--what Mere Langlois or the rest of the world would say? [11]
Graciously look over yonder, Your Highness; does it not seem as if the wood fairy herself had laid by the roadside for your illustrious Majesty the fairest flowers that bloom in field and forest, mere and moss? [10]
This almost unnatural, yet quiet, intensity had behind it something besides the mere spirit of the sportsman. [11]
If it might yet be something more than a mere post of honor to be the wife of Verus, I would not ask for the new dignity of becoming wife to Caesar. [10]
The mere death would have been cruelty enough, without overloading it and emphasizing it with that score of harsh and wanton details. [5]
I believe it would be better if it were a mere case of physical passion. [9]
He caused the words Maison de ma Mere to be inscribed on the charitable institutions, thereby combining tender filial affection with the majestic benevolence of a monarch. [2]
I was merely wondering whether any event or series of events had transformed a mere knowledge of these conditions into feeling. [9]
Before that the woman had been to me a mere ministering automaton. [9]
I know their witnesses say that there are cross currents--that, as one witness says, there were three cross currents and two eddies; so far as mere statement, without experiment, and mingled with mistakes, can go, they have proved. [7]
And a sister without an open right to the title: the mere fidelity of blood! [11]
He found that with regard to the Grosvenor Green apartment he had not allowed for his wife's willingness to get any sort of roof over her head again after the removal from their old home, or for the alleviations that grow up through mere custom. [8]
Here she is with her little blemishes 'restored' (that is, patched) by the most noted Roman artists--and the mere fact that they did the humble patching of so noble a creation will make their names illustrious while the world stands. [5]
In considering the wing of a bat, he brings forward (p. 218) what appears to me (to use Auguste Comte's words) a mere metaphysical principle, namely, the preservation "in its integrity of the mammalian nature of the animal. [1]
The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love. [6]
No mere ferule will answer for this offence. [5]
But out of wilful idleness, the mere flattery of the senses, a vampire feeding upon the spirits and souls of others, for nothing save emotion for emotion's sake --that was shameless, it was the last humiliation of a woman. [11]
Burgomaster Van Swieten's wife had heard from her own husband, that the Englishmen, without making any resistance, had surrendered the beautiful new fort of Valkenburg and taken to their heels, at the mere sight of the Spaniards. [10]
Those of us who, like Honora, believe in Providence, do not trouble ourselves with mere matters of dollars and cents. [9]
There are those who profess to fear that our government is becoming a mere irresponsible tyranny. [6]
The unheralded guest who is honored by mere indifference may think himself blessed with singular good-fortune. [6]
A blue-faced man, who had nothing to offer except that he had been blown up in a mine, would be regarded as a rank impostor, and a mere damaged soldier on crutches would never make a cent. [5]
Only a few who had been their closest friends received a written line, but the little printed acknowledgment which was returned was no mere formality. [5]
But for a whim, perhaps, she had come at last without asking, and as a consequence Luc returned to the world, a mere bundle of bones. [11]
The cold breath which fanned his cheek was certainly no mere draught. [10]
I remarked afterward, when I chanced to shake hands with her, that her fingers enclosed one's hand; it was not a mere touch or pressure, but an unemotional and possessive clasp. [11]
But shall Charmian--who, when her heart throbbed still more warmly and life lay fair before her, laid her first love upon the altar of sacrifice for her royal playfellow--abandon Cleopatra in misfortune from mere selfish scruples? [10]
And we know when a man has his power from a god by the fact that he does things which he could not do, as a man, with the mere powers of a man. [5]
We didn't know what they meant, or how to set about their accomplishment, but they were not, at least, mere selfish aspirations; they implied, unconsciously no doubt, an element of service, and certainly our ideal of marriage had something fine in it. [9]
No matter of what he wrote or spoke, his words, his tones, his looks, carried the evidence of a sincerity which pervaded them all and was to his eloquence and poetry like the water of crystallization; without which they would effloresce into mere rhetoric. [6]
Some households there were, indeed, which maintained a precarious though seemingly miraculous footing on the surface, or near it, going under for mere brief periods, only to rise again and flaunt men-servants in the face of Providence. [9]
Commands, threats, punishments, were out of the question with her; the mere physical effects of crossing her will betrayed themselves in such changes of expression and manner that it would have been senseless to attempt to govern her in any such way. [6]
She had a way of carrying her head, of throwing it back at times, that was not exactly imperious, and conveyed the impression of spirit rather than of mere vivacity. [4]
Old as she was, she could not help blushing at the mere thought of it. [10]
The great reunion was to be something more than a mere banquet. [5]
She hoped it was this; and, at any cost, she must know the truth as to this question, which was not based on mere curiosity. [10]
Everything else that was on show in the embalmers' hall was mere trash by comparison. [10]
Besides, Jacques Brillon was not a mere servant, and he, too, had done well. [11]
At first it was mere blind instinct about which I had no thought, living like other infants the life of impressions without language to connect them in series. [6]
Paula's terrible end was fast approaching, and his brain burned at the mere thought. [10]
Mark Twain's work was always of a kind to make people talk, always important, even when it was mere humor. [5]
The dark form was a mere blot upon the lighter darkness of the room, but she saw the turning of the head, and felt and knew how the eyes looked and the ears listened. [12]
Their mere howdy-do was a lie, because they didn't care how you did, except they were undertakers. [5]
But Big Tom was a gentleman: he never killed deer for mere sport. [4]
With birds the voice serves to express various emotions, such as distress, fear, anger, triumph, or mere happiness. [1]
But these occasional visitors may have been mere wanderers, which, straying along in the woods by day, and perhaps stalking through the streets of still villages by night, had worked their way along down from the ragged mountain-spurs of higher latitudes. [6]
It is no virtue in me to plead patriotism--it is a mere argument, a weapon that I use; but my heart is behind it, and it is a means to that which you will thank me for one day. [11]
Decrepit age, and vigorous life, and blooming youth, and helpless infancy, poured forth--on crutches, in the pride of strength and health, in the full blush of promise, in the mere dawn of life--to gather round her tomb. [12]
Barop, though usually very strict in the observance of religious duties, never demanded anything for the sake of mere appearances. [10]
They are the verdicts of those whom he respects and admires, or the mere words of those for whose judgment he cares not a jot. [14]
Mr. Redbrook's speech, vehement and honest, helps a little; people listen to an honest and forceful man, however he may lack technical knowledge, but the majority of the replies are mere incoherent denunciations of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
Down swept that vast horse-shoe wave--it approached the sand-belt--my breath stood still; nearer, nearer--the strip of green turf beyond the yellow belt grew narrow--narrower still--became a mere ribbon in front of the horses--then disappeared under their hoofs. [5]
Near to this vast dark cavity was a hut--a mere playhouse, it seemed, so small was it, viewed from where we stood. [11]
Even the pleasing varieties of corporeal life cannot be represented by a system of mere proportions, much less those which are inner and spiritual. [10]
There is no Valhalla for the mere accumulators of money. [4]
It carries the usual "cow-catcher" in front of the locomotive, but this is mere ostentation. [5]
But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this. [5]
But it lifts us all by its mere presence. [6]
We seem lifted up into a purer atmosphere; we feel a serenity of soul, a buoyancy of spirits, an elasticity of frame, which render mere existence happiness. [4]
Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mere rebuking her for her fall. [2]
We are cobbling up a robe for the Emperor out of mere rags; we are upholsterers and not artists. [10]
It was not until they had seen him gradually diminish into a mere speck upon the distant road, that they turned to each other, and ventured to laugh aloud. [12]
Thus, if an unthinking and excited community had been listened to instead of the arguments of counsel, a poor crazy creature would have been held to a fearful responsibility for a mere freak of madness. [5]
He could not understand the attitude, for Tarboe would scarcely have risked the thing out of mere bravado. [11]
I am not trying to keep the lovers apart for any mere purposes of fiction,--this is a true chronicle, and they stayed apart most of that winter. [9]
His delineations are true and life-like, because they are not mere compositions written to please the ear, but are really taken from the facts and traits preserved in those authentic records to which he has devoted the labor of many years. [6]
A man instinctively tries to get rid of his thought in conversation or in print so soon as it is matured; but it is hard to get at it as it lies imbedded, a mere potentiality, the germ of a germ, in his intellect. [6]
Good friends, this tramp is a mere fraud and liar. [5]
How can you torture me and yourself like that, for a mere fancy? [2]
For not slaughtering too many of his people upon mere caprice; 2. [5]
A very different tone from that of other times, when conventions were mere ratifications of Imperial decrees. [9]
Tell me you told that falsehood out of mere vanity and are sorry for it; that you're not expecting to ever wear the coronet of an earl--" "Truly I am cured--cured this very day--I am not expecting it! [5]
The mere coming together to compare views and discuss interests and tendencies and problems which concern both the workers and the great public, cannot fail to be of benefit to both. [4]
Then again as to the mere music of a new poem; why, who can expect anything more from that than from the music of a violin fresh from the maker's hands? [6]
Having practically come to the mere defensive, it seems to be no economy at all to employ twice as many men for that object as are needed. [7]
When I went to the Island of Jersey, in 1897, it was to shake myself free of what might become a mere obsession. [11]
It led also to the composition of other books on the West, which were more or less mere pieces of book-making for the market. [4]
We have come to that solid substratum acknowledged by Grotius in his great Treatise: "Necessity itself which reduces things to the mere right of Nature. [6]
I therefore concluded to tell you the plain truth, being satisfied the matter would thus appear much smaller than it would if seen by mere glimpses. [7]
It was marvellous to see how this untutored man, by mere self-discipline and the chastening of his own spirit, had outgrown all meretricious arts, and found his own way to the grandeur and strength of absolute simplicity. [7]
What a price to pay for mere life! [4]
I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen, but got so pleasantly involved in the social life of the town that I got nothing more than mere five-minute talks with a couple of dozen of the craft. [5]
Henry Clay belonged to his country--to the world; mere party cannot claim men like him. [7]
The house threatened to give way at any moment: one end of it was sinking, and, in fact, the building looked a mere shell. [5]
Fairminded people declined to condemn her on mere suspicion, and so the injurious talk made no very damaging headway. [5]
If marriage is to be a mere trial of compatibility, why go through a ceremony than which there is none more binding in human and divine institutions? [9]
We hurried back to a point overlooking our landing place, and then--but mere words cannot describe our dismay--the boat was gone! [5]
At the same time I do not think that he, or any of us whose conversation I think worth reporting, says anything for the mere sake of saying it and without thinking that it holds some truth, even if it is not unqualifiedly true. [6]
He had also thought that he might venture upon more than the mere feasting of his eyes, yet found an inspiring alleviation in the fact that she by no means absolutely repulsed him. [9]
It cannot be thought of; it is mere ruin! [4]
But the mere thought of being afraid roused him again. [2]
At your age this miserable scrap of meat is a mere drop of water on a red-hot stone. [10]
And to effect this mere holding on, with the vagabond crew that composed most of the colony, and with the extravagant and unintelligent expectations of the London Company, was a feat showing decided ability. [4]
And she remembered this longing and yearning in a way very unlike a mere dream. [10]
For a moment they contended, and then Mere Langlois fell out of the contest, and Virginie continued it with an ambitious farmer from the next county, who was about to become a Member of Parliament. [11]
The policeman stood there; he saw his face: it was not bad, not cruel; it was like the face of a statue, fixed, perdurable--a mere image of irresponsible and involuntary authority. [8]
To get Philip there without being seen was to Argutis a mere trifle. [10]
He felt that there had entered into him something that could be depended on, not the mere flow of natural magnetism fed by an outdoor life and a temperament of great emotional force, and chance, and suggestion-- and other things. [11]
Every real person--for there are persons as there are fruits that have no distinguishing flavor, mere gooseberries--has a distinct quality, and the finding it is always like the discovery of a new island to the voyager. [4]

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