But the mere fact that he was a man, however wild, had somewhat reassured me, and my fear of Silver began to revive in proportion.
" returned Silver, smiling away, but warier than ever, his eye a mere pin-point in his big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass.
In a few cases, to be sure, the name of a place would be added, as "Offe Caraccas," or a mere entry of latitude and longitude, as "62o 17' 20", 19o 2' 40".
Certainly, mere be, whose fortunes are like Homer's verses, that have a slide, and easiness, more than the verses of other poets: as Plutarch sailh of Timoleon's fortune, in respect of that of Agesilaus, or Epaminondas.
It was as a mere afterthought that they mentioned that they had visited a place near what they called New Found Isle.
Our desire lends the colours of the rainbow to the mere mists and vapours of life.
In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
We are quite sure we have lost something in the mere pursuit of living.
You insult her in-telligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
This is a refinement of mere lust that allows people to home in on a particular mate.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui.
They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.
Confucius was born a mere peasant who learned to teach.
Earl Warren (1891 - 1974) Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
Ecclesiastes Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
I was sure that I had found at last the one true cosmopolite since Adam, and I listened to his worldwide discourse fearful lest I should discover in it the local note of the mere globe-trotter.
The party was so faraway that the men appeared as mere dots, but unhesitatinglythe recruit replied: "Sixteen men and a sergeant,sir.
Mere belief in anything signifies little more than assent.
