for mere pleasure
Example Sentences
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There will be plenty of dangers in our excursion without seeking them out for mere pleasure.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore
The French, indeed, travel so little for mere pleasure that, whenever they do so, they think it useless to make a fuss about what seems to them a part and parcel of the journey.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
The business is just as useful as a drug-store, but no poor boy should hire equipages for mere pleasure.
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
It wasn't worth while risking my life for mere pleasure, but I want my bicycle now for use.
From Twilight Stories by Margaret Sidney
What right had I to take the life of any living thing at all, let alone for mere pleasure?
From Born Again by Alfred Lawson
