Eudora was a mere infant when Phidias bought her of a poor goatherd in Phelle.

These circumstances have led me to suppose that you worship them as mere forms.

You can even now return, if you will submit to be a mere sojourner in Athens.

Ladies, ladies—this is degenerating into a mere hammer-fest.

This was a mere formality and it did not have any deep significance.

It is a wonder to me they all do not give in, as many are mere skeletons.

As for Philip, all seemed a mere negation; there was a vacuum where his place had been.

After all, one grows weary of every thing that is to be had for the mere act of wishing.

Her exhibitions in all other quarters have been mere disguises.

The mere exposition of a thesis would have little or no value.