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Sentences starting with merely

Merely to take up the pen was to pass magically through marble portals into the great world itself. [9]
Merely to see the world from some remote sphere, like the distant spectator of a play which passes in dumb show, would not suffice. [4]
Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford, and let it talk. [5]
Merely a finger shot off. [5]
Merely for the sake of being released from his oath, he thrust his head into the crocodile's jaws. [10]
Merely that bank robbery? [5]
Merely a line or two, however. [5]
Merely the laying of traps for people. [5]
Merely a matter of form, as your Lordship knows, but we men of affairs are held to a strict accountability. [9]
Merely the cruelty of an economic system based on ruthless competition. [9]

Sentences ending with merely

No question of preliminaries to the meeting was then and there made or mentioned; no other person was present; no papers were exchanged or produced; and it was in advance agreed that the conversation was to be informal and verbal merely. [7]
After the Isle of Orleans was passed, I drew a breath of relief, and played the part of captain and boatswain merely. [11]
I'm down here now with reference to a little operation--a little side thing merely. [5]
He shuts most literary men off with a brain, merely. [5]
Does he make it against that newspaper editor merely? [7]
Yet with this difference: he must stand by and let the avenger be the executioner; he must be the spectator merely. [11]
Had I not been able to create atmosphere which would have given naturalness to Pierre and his friends, some of the characters, and many of the incidents, would have seemed monstrosities --melodramatic episodes merely. [11]

Short sentences using merely

She merely made them miserable. [11]
This is merely sentimental argument. [5]
This is merely my opinion. [4]
He merely took my hat. [5]
Its intent is merely civil. [11]
He merely asked her name. [11]
You're merely laughing at me. [8]
It is merely a Waterloo. [5]
Merely heart disease. [5]
Joan merely said: "Passez outre. [5]

Sentences containing merely two or more times

The one merely requires will--and a great deal of it, both as to bulk and staying capacity--the other merely requires watchfulness--and for no long time. [5]

More example sentences with the word merely in them

When I wrote you, I thought I had it; whereas I was only merely entering upon the initiatory difficulties of it. [5]
I merely wished you to know, Mr. Flint, that there is no use in attempting to deceive me in regard to the true colour of those practices. [9]
I merely wished you to know, as soon as possible, that I did not intend to put my money into it. [9]
I'm merely asking you to be friendly with him. [9]
The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. [5]
He would just yell that way, not for anything in particular, but merely on account of a kind of devilish comfort he got out of it. [5]
The king's judgments wrought frequent injustices, but it was merely the fault of his training, his natural and unalterable sympathies. [5]
The remarkable changes wrought during my lifetime in the political affairs of Germany I can merely indicate here. [10]
But instead of writing it clown, the man merely stared at him, while the fat creases in his face deepened and deepened. [9]
Not that she would have let this one go, merely because it was defective. [5]
No rowing or work of any kind to do--we merely float with the current--we glide noiseless and swift--as fast as a London cab-horse rips along--8 miles an hour--the swiftest current I've ever boated in. [5]
I was merely wondering whether any event or series of events had transformed a mere knowledge of these conditions into feeling. [9]
Why many a woman who rides by in her chariot wears dresses and gems to conceal not merely her own limbs, but the poverty-stricken condition of her house. [10]
I do it without purpose and without ambition; merely for the love of it. [5]
All this he withheld from the older men and merely briefly described the splendid banquet which Caesarion, pallid and listless as ever, had directed, and Antyllus especially had enlivened with the most reckless mirth. [10]
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. [5]
He cannot stop with merely thinking a thing is so and so; he must know it; for this is eminently one of the 'exact' sciences. [5]
She had remained with him for hours, leaving her place at his side merely to give him his medicine, or, with her mother's aid, place poultices on his wounds. [10]
I went fishing with her, but not in her perilous boat: I merely followed along on the ice and watched her strike her game with her fatally accurate spear. [5]
Perhaps he merely wished to assure himself that they were comfortable with us. [10]
But Lem was wise and kind, so he merely said that she had returned a lady. [9]
Always on the wing, as we were, and merely pausing a moment to catch fitful glimpses of the wonders of half a world, we could not hope to receive or retain vivid impressions of all it was our fortune to see. [5]
Therefore if you will print this paragraph somewhere, it may remove the impression that I say unjust things which I do not think, merely for the pleasure of talking. [5]
I hope you will consider me as being really interested for Mr. Sutton and not as writing merely to relieve myself of importunity. [7]
My next incident will be set aside by most persons as being merely a "coincidence," I suppose. [5]
I now perceive why all men are the deadly and uncompromising enemies of the rattlesnake: it is merely because the rattlesnake has not speech. [5]
And Queen Tryphoena, whom history recorded as a monster, had not killed her husband, but merely thrust him from the throne. [10]
Looking at the whole field for a moment dispassionately, objectively, as the dear Teutonic philosophers say, and merely as an exhibition of phenomena, I cannot imagine any other issue. [6]
Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. [5]
It was Virginia who first caught sight of the new dome of the Capitol through the slanting rain, but she merely pressed her lips together and said nothing. [9]
We do not whirl him around a stick, as they do, but that is merely a detail. [5]
During the ecossaise, which she also danced with him, Anatole said nothing when they happened to be by themselves, but merely gazed at her. [2]
One is that which regards this world as only a waste and a desert, across the sands of which we are merely fugitives, fleeing from the wrath to come. [4]
The Southwest operation, which made so much noise in the courts, was merely an incident. [4]
The candy-striped pole, which indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace-bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of Dawson's Landing. [5]
The short sketch which I give is, therefore, merely to maintain the connection of this discourse. [7]
Had the feelings which her glances were intended to reveal passed merely for the ardent gratitude of an impassioned soul? [10]
Austen merely inquired whether this was not when they had left the station at North Mercer, two miles away. [9]
She merely wondered where she would be if she hadn't learned it. [9]
But one day when the meagre village chemist saw him cracking jokes with Beard, the carpenter, and sidled in with a silly air of equality, which was merely insolence, Gaston softly dismissed him, with his ears tingling. [11]
He said that when Kamehameha (who was at first merely a subordinate chief on the island of Hawaii), landed here, he brought a large army with him, and encamped at Waikiki. [5]
I was glad when he joined me and asked, as simply as though he were merely inquiring the way, why he had never seen me, the loveliest among the beauties in the temple, in Tennis. [10]
Hows'ever, sir, being what I am, I merely scorn such expressions. [12]
A few ants were in this desert place, but merely to spend the summer. [5]
The spurs, however, were as yet represented merely by slight knobs or elevations. [1]
In fact, Joan went but little into detail herself, usually merely saying, "That is not true--passez outre"; or, "I have answered that before--let the clerk read it in his record," or saying some other brief thing. [5]
In the Hellespont we saw where Leander and Lord Byron swam across, the one to see her upon whom his soul's affections were fixed with a devotion that only death could impair, and the other merely for a flyer, as Jack says. [5]
But the advantage was with Iberville, not merely because of more practice,--Gering made up for that by a fine certainty of nerve,--but because he had a prescient quality of mind, joined to the calculation of the perfect gamester. [11]
At first I was very cautious, but when I perceived that the opinions of the doubters and deniers merely inspired her with pity, I spoke more freely. [10]
The building, indeed, was symbolic of a decadent and bewildered Puritanism in its pathetic attempt to keep abreast with the age, to compromise with anarchy, merely achieving a nondescript medley of rounded, knob-like towers covered with mulberry-stained shingles. [9]
No person, as was said long ago, could judge him, because his task was not merely difficult, but simply impracticable to human powers. [6]
And, indeed, it was not merely strange, but it filled her heart and mind with astonishment and terror. [10]
To him Davout was not merely a French general, but a man notorious for his cruelty. [2]
The first experiment was not merely a failure, it was more than a failure. [5]
I supposed it was merely to do something toward raising the flag. [7]
However, perhaps he was merely engaged in 'upholding the ancient dignity of the Senate,'--then. [5]
At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
Luigi's whole heart was in it, and even Angelo developed a surprising amount of interest-which was natural, because he was not merely representing Whigism, a matter of no consequence to him; but he was representing something immensely finer and greater--to wit, Reform. [5]
Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
But when I was close to him he merely laid his hand on my shoulder. [9]
The white tent was carried away, but the cannon-balls flew over or merely battered the solid rock, the shells were thrown beyond, and no harm was done. [11]
Did he merely want to tempt her from the vessel so as to clear the way for his young master? [10]
So when Prince Volkonski, who was in the chair, called on him to give his opinion, he merely said: "Why ask me? [2]
You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. [7]
The lad was usually no prattler, yet now, merely to boast of his master's familiar intercourse with the king, he had forgotten all caution. [10]
It is no use to throw a good thing away merely because the market isn't ripe yet. [5]
And experience tells us that power is not merely a word but an actually existing phenomenon. [2]
It would teach us a good deal merely to consider the names he has selected as typical, and the ground of their selection. [6]
It is looked upon as merely an effort to pamper one or two pets, and to persecute and degrade their supposed rivals. [7]
They merely go up and down now and then. [5]
It is merely unthinking and mechanical exercise of inherited habit. [5]
Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? [7]
Then I lampooned two prominent citizens outrageously--not because they had done anything to deserve, but merely because I thought it was my duty to make the paper lively. [5]
I have sent two letters to General Steele, and three or four despatches to you and others, saying that he, General Steele, must be master, but that it will probably be best for him to merely help the convention on its own plan. [7]
Both of the two great parties, the Republican and the Democratic, in order to make a show of keeping abreast of the times, have merely patched their platforms with the new ideas. [9]
He says "Mark Twain is not merely a great writer, a great philosopher, a great man; he is the supreme expression of the human being, with his strength and his weakness. [5]
At night he turned to the chain-man to ascertain what distance they had come, and found that by some mistake he had merely dragged the chain over the ground, without keeping any record. [7]
He was rather trying the common arguments, as one tries tricks of fence merely to learn the way of parrying. [6]
Having found the Truth; perceiving that beyond question man has but one moving impulse--the contenting of his own spirit--and is merely a machine and entitled to no personal merit for anything he does, it is not humanly possible for me to seek further. [5]
It was in truth merely a log house with shakedowns, and stood across the rude road from his log farmhouse. [9]
While it is true that the adoption of the proposed resolution would be merely initiatory, and not within itself a practical measure, it is recommended in the hope that it would soon lead to important practical results. [7]
The interviewer seldom tries to tell one how a thing was said; he merely puts in the naked remark and stops there. [5]
Down through the transparency of these great depths, the water was not merely transparent, but dazzlingly, brilliantly so. [5]
She merely bowed towards me, as if to dismiss me, and then she rose, took his arm, and moved away. [11]
They are to touch neither a sail nor a pump, but to be merely passengers--deadheads at that--to be carried snug and dry throughout the storm, and safely landed right side up. [7]
She loved her too sincerely and respected her intelligence too much to take offence at her advice, but she could not give up her humane and sisterly intentions merely from the fear of some awkward consequences to herself. [6]
As Talbott afterwards told me, he went to the General's, but not finding him at home, got the deed from his son, which, when compared with the record, proved what we had discovered was merely an error of the recorder. [7]
He had endeavored to vanquish the disgust she felt for him merely to ensnare her and her healing hand more surely--as his plaything, his physic, his sleeping draught. [10]
He had elected to use his little patrimony in making himself instead of in making money--if merely following his inclination could be called an election. [4]
She was competent to treat it in all its phases: not merely those of personal interest, but those of duty to the broken Southern past, sentimentally dear to him, and practically absurd to her. [8]
If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone, in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason. [5]
They both ran to the window and saw dashing down the avenue--a picture out of Fenimore Cooper; a saddleless horse with a rider whose fingers merely touched the bridle, riding as on a journey of life and death. [11]
He went straight to the Foreign Office for news, hoping against hope, was received by Count Mensdorff, who merely came forward and laid his arm about his shoulder with an intense sympathy beyond words. [6]
What Appenzelder ascribed to the devil himself, he attributed merely to the fervour of her fiery artist temperament. [10]
It is idle to speculate on the phenomenon taking place within her, and it may merely be remarked in passing that she possessed a quality which, in a man, leads to a career and fame. [9]
Is it extravagant to speak of a tendency to make the author merely an adjunct of the publishing house? [4]
I merely wish to show some of the quaint imperfect attempts at the use of our tongue. [5]
I appear merely to see you, and to let you see me, and to bid you farewell. [7]
It was curious to see how the various qualities which are esteemed in society appeared in his eyes, looked at merely in their relation to the limited world he knew, and judged by their adaptation to the primitive life. [4]
I merely desire to say that my unimportant adventure is not narrated in answer to the popular demand, and I do not wish to be held responsible for its variation from the typical character of such experiences. [4]

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