Time is too short and precious for the mere plays of fantasy, and, to speak seriously for once, what is poetry?
our life was but as a meeting by the way-side; in yonder world, where we shall know each other from a union of mind, we shall be but mere acquaintances.
And the three other children—the children of good birth, of money, and of intellectual pride,—well, they were respected and honored in the world, for they had been well provided for by birth and position, and they had no cause to reproach themselves with what they had thought and spoken on that evening long ago, for, after all, it was mere "children's prattle.
It's really a pleasure now and then to become a mere nothing, especially when a man is as highly placed as I am.
and so different to the mere representation of pictures such as those in his father's house.
And yet even here its power was shown; something more than the mere strength of a man opposed itself, through his means, against the evil which struggled within her.
I shall endure it, however, for I shall look upon it all as a mere representation, a masquerade, a mummery, which to-morrow, that is, when I myself as a journeyman, shall have served my time, will vanish, and I shall go my way, and all that has passed will be nothing to me.
They seem like mere withered leaves lying on the ground.
This is something different to being a mere plant and bearing flowers.
4 The town now appeared small and poor, and the school-boys read in their books, which they carried under their arms, that it contained two thousand inhabitants; but this was a mere boast, for it did not contain so many.
The clergyman had delivered a beautiful and touching sermon, the candidates were deeply moved by it; it was indeed a very important day for them; they were all at once transformed from mere children to grown-up people; the childish soul was to fly over, as it were, into a more reasonable being.
The mere pain of the moment will turn into glory.
Each day as more of us disappear, the happy past seems like a mere dream, and I sink deeper and deeper into despair.
But in my eyes and those of the other people who had been in that room that day, Clara never again looked like the mere wreck of a woman.
He went on at first like a mere automaton, without thought or wish; therefore the goloshes had no opportunity to display their magic power.
