merely

It seemed, however, that he had merely been thinking intently.

But can the safety of the state be secured by merely excluding the vicious poor?

Surface manifestations are, in and of themselves, merely deceptive.

After all it might be nothing of vital importance, merely a girls' disagreement.

Our pledge was not merely to do a patchwork job with secondhand materials.

They say that he paints not merely a man's features, but his mind and heart.

She merely turned her head and rubbed his knee with her nose.

But he was not discouraged; he was merely changing his tactics.

I say this not merely at a venture, but on the strength of what has happened in the past.

Merely to abstain from definition was like a load taken off my mind.