for mere pleasure

Example Sentences

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It wasn't worth while risking my life for mere pleasure, but I want my bicycle now for use.

From Twilight Stories by Sidney, Margaret

Everything, except what we do for mere pleasure.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan

Now that I am married," and here she gazed at me with those tender, truthful eyes, "I seem not to care for mere pleasure.

From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf

He seems to act for mere pleasure: yet who shall be stern enough to condemn him, so that he exceed not in quantity?

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

There is nothing so irksome as calm weather at sea, to those at all events whose duty lies upon the waters and who do not go on shipboard for mere pleasure.

From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by Schonberg, J.