for mere pleasure
Example Sentences
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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 Rolf Boldrewood
Therefore in general their athletics were not pursued, as are ours, for mere pleasure and sport, and because we like to feel fit.
From Halcyone by Elinor Glyn
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
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 J. Schonberg
Our sympathy with Cuba, with the Armenians, with Ireland, with Poland, rises up to refute Machiavelli and his right of the State to crush for mere pleasure of power.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
