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’ I said coldly, the mere fact fuelling my appalling temper to near explosion point
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It seemed like a mere moment
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the mere thought paralyses me
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please understand that the words I have listed here are mere suggestions
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If God can make it so that a man can be distinguished from other men because of the eternal Spirit, how much more does this quality bring us to the same conclusion about Jesus? This wasn’t a mere man
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It was a path that no mere mortal could follow
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during her arrest period had left her a mere mass of
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So how could I, mere mortal that I am, resist? I was seized with an overwhelming need to float and drift
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The schedule I have set out is a mere indication of what can be done with a few minutes set aside for Yoga practice
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She'd made a name for herself as a woman of honour, desperate to help her community gain self-respect and sometimes mere existence
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To my surprise, Wiesse comes with Berndt and I, gracefully turning down Berndt’s polite offer that Wiesse should take the reins – they chat idly while I try to work out if this is mere good manners – the younger man deferring to the older – or because Wiesse is a skilled wagon driver, or whatever they are called
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Mister Cameron is blessed with the sort of fortune that, in fables and fairy stories at least, has only ever been granted to mere mortals in return for a lien on their soul
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those that spend a mere ten to twenty minutes a day diving into current events and keeping
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What if they were aware of how much I knew? If they had a mere scintilla of suspicion they'd never let me return to shore, they couldn't afford to
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champion of my batch raped so in public by a mere boy of twelve was too funny
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“They didn’t care whether or not it worked, it was the mere desire to prolong mortal life that was the unpardonable sin
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She was a mere baby when the lab was destroyed
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The feeling of being trampled, mutiliated and vanquished by a mere boy had only
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granted to mere mortals in return for a lien on their soul
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mere material far too easy to not be copied
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is it a mere coincidence or could they be Bunty’s old friends?
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I am a mere reflection of my Father’s grace… the man answered quickly in a strong, rich voice that had the accent of a dozen worlds
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Pity … though having said that, the brilliant thing about Danvers House is the personal aspect, the tenants are not mere numbers on a page but people … it would be difficult to do that on a larger scale, I suppose
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But as he didn't have any cause to doubt that the venerable one's intentions weren't mere entertainment, he also thanked him humbly
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“But that's mere coincidence; there's a hardware store in every town from here to the Pacific,” pointed out one of his companions
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mere sensations of touch, venture deeper, into the
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that she looked at him that this was rather more than a mere
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He could wrap guides and strippers as well or better than most, and intermediates no longer stumped him with their mere three or four turns
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He had been bringing his brew up here much longer than the mere decades she’d been coming here, the date he claimed was in Earth’s fourteenth century
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Mere distance could not sufficiently intervene, but the immensity of the sea, with its tempo of solitude, he felt deeply inside himself and it played in harmony with his spirit as a swelling call to greatness
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instigated by mere Cardinals - it was authorised by His
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mere silk hope to compete with a man who makes even the
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– it was a mere slip of the tongue
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would say that our similar stories and our meeting were coincidental, mere chance
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with the speed and determination unrivaled by any mere mortal
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When upon our return journey of a mere few blocks to our rooms at the elegant Chelsea House, we were momentarily detained by four disconsolate fellows whose evening's entertainment I'm afraid was not furthered by our own contributions
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For a while now, a rival group has been studying the village, through studying and manipulating one of its inhabitants; a mere child that goes by the name of ‘Sunil Yohannan’, even going so far as to install a brainwashing device
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These mere mortal children - Andrew, Jack, Monica, Julia and Matt had managed to protect their village from the forces of evil more times than they could count, and today would test their skills to the max
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Francois? Thomas would dissolve into tears at the mere
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George and Belle greeted them as if they were returning family, indeed Harry had made so thorough his frequent mention of one or the other of the Spelmans that they did consider them more than mere acquaintances
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That was mere show -
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3But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God; their horses are flesh
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Do not fear the reproach of mere
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Swiftly she twirled around to face her captor, he was but a mere shadowed outline, against the blazing lights of the house, It didn't appear he was about to release his grip of her waist either
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Kaitlyn and Harry embraced and then kissed---real passion is the mere shadow of true love requited---and theirs was the very heart, blood, and soul of that rarest of all treasures
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The further proof of it was the mere fact the man remained alive in the holding chamber – Argos could have easily taken his revenge and squeezed the life from him when he held him in his cold, metal hands
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He couldn’t bear to watch him leave – not without becoming a whimpering babe in front of the rest of the defenders; the mere thought of never seeing his son again nearly drew him to tears
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" The raspy voice was a mere whisper
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be a mere technicality
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Now, you lend us mere apprentices, children incapable of elevating a pebble let alone a twelve ton stone
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began as mere vagabonds and outcasts, yet they became mighty
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We were a mere handful against a horde of dead
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Over time, her flesh decomposed and her bones turned to mush, even the shackles at her wrists and ankles fell away, the mere weight of them enough to tear through her festering limbs
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Were it not, mere charity or friendship could be the only motives for lending
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effect of no such nice calculation, but of mere thoughtless rashness, and presumptuous
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’ Little did he realise that he was a mere twelve
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These weren't criminals but mere orphans, innocent beings
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He could smell it, feel it seeping into his rotting pores, an aroma beyond lust and a sensation more powerful than any known to mere flesh
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Thankfully the soldiers of Lock Core were mere humans and remained dead when killed
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For the loss of a mere two hundred warriors he had slain eight thousand of the enemy
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Then they had gone to the Bonny Bridge riding club in Millbrook road, a mere half a mile from the American Embassy, and commandeered a few horses
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passed around the small pilgrim’s hospice – a mere hut
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In its rude beginnings, the greater part of every country is covered with wood, which is then a mere incumbrance, of no value to the landlord, who would gladly give it to any body for the cutting
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The convenience store, a tiny Mom and Pop of the type usually filled with fresh bread and milk and boxes of chocolate and biscuits so old that the boxes were sun-faded into mere facsimiles of their original
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Eventually she realized that the mere fact of sleeping did not define the nightmare
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Mere thieves wouldn’t have bothered replacing what
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The lack of food, drugs and heating had taken a massive toll on the survivors of the initial pulse and now, a mere three months on, Nathaniel estimated that a full fifty percent of the population were dead
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His tendrils plunged to the depths of the abyss, brushing against such evil beings the mere hint of their existence made him tremble
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Though it is not very probable that any part of a tax, which is not only imposed upon one of the most proper subjects of taxation, a mere luxury and superfluity, but which affords so very important a revenue as the tax upon silver, will ever be given up as long as it is possible to pay it; yet the same impossibility of paying it, which, in 1736
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With the mere mention of her name, he saw his own sense of loss reflected in Anon’s eyes
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A private was a mere pawn in an institution where shit ran downhill so he was constantly covered in the stuff
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But the brigadiers could still not get past the enormity of being addressed in such a way by a mere non-commissioned officer, so he simply shook his head and shouted, ‘guards!’
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The Dead Tree thought to drown Adros in the horror of its existence, to drive him mad with the mere thought of what it was capable of
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These, as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a mere save-all ; and as they cost the farmer scarce any thing, so he can afford to sell them for very little
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A mere whiff of the undead was enough to send him into a frenzy
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The one has arisen from a mere accident, in which neither prudence nor policy either had or could have any share; the other, from the fall of the feudal system, and from the establishment of a government which afforded to industry the only encouragement which it requires, some tolerable security that it shall enjoy the fruits of its own labour
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The whole stock of mere dwelling-houses, too, subsisting at anyone time in the country, make a part of this first portion
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These are very different from mere dwelling-houses
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in whose hands we are mere puppets
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of the Romanians, it is mere ignorance and
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Possibly this had been “discovered” before? Truly This could be no mere “creation
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It is a mere
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I weighed a mere sixty kg
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was a man who saw potential in me, a mere duckling
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The revenue of an individual may be spent, either in things which are consumed immediately, and in which one day's expense can neither alleviate nor support that of another ; or it may be spent in things mere durable, which can therefore be accumulated, and in which every day's expense may, as he chooses, either alleviate, or support and heighten, the effect of that of the following day
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When I walked into the circle, it was mere minutes until the 16th anniversary of the moment I was born
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Reading her thoughts and worries made her seem a mere mortal
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that it took for one to go from the book-stall to the train, in mere
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mere coincidence that I was present in that room…”
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“Okay – your turn,” she’d said, as if it were a mere business transaction
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Once again, the power of mere names was evident
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A merchant is accustomed to employ his money chiefly in profitable projects ; whereas a mere country gentleman is accustomed to employ it chiefly in expense
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Whoever has had the fortune to live in a mercantile town, situated in an unimproved country, must have frequently observed how much more spirited the operations of merchants were in this way, than those of mere country gentlemen
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The rest were mere savages
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Yahweh was indeed more powerful than all of his people’s gods put together! Babylon’s gods were no gods at all – they were mere handmade idols! He mounted Koyo and as he made his way back home, his mind wandered away to other things
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He wasn’t sure if it was the knowing grin the stranger wore or those shocking eyes of his or the feeling that he truly did know who he was and what he was after – and not just the mere location of the two Bretons at present
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cursed one, as if it promised to summon fell spirits with its mere utterance? Hence why all who mentioned the name -
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“Helez, what’s wrong?” Azubah asked and then suddenly the truth dawned on her – the young man, Zarko! “It’s Zarko, isn’t it? He’s more than a mere acquaintance, isn’t he?” she asked softly
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Even if it earned him punches to the face and more than mere threats, it was a character flaw he could never overcome
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Those goods, too, would not be all matters of mere luxury and expense, to be consumed by idle people, who produce nothing in return for their consumption
