Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.    From LearnThat.org.  [Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)]

A mere child.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

For his part, Nigerien President Mamadou Tanja has rejected all negotiation with what he describes as mere "armed bandits.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But Chauvelin was not the man to trouble himself about these social amenities, which he called mere incidents in his diplomatic career.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference

According to the Chinese, music includes that phase of sound which we call mere noise, and the harmonizing of this noise is Chinese art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference

However, Sony removed the offending game title mere minutes after this hack hit the web, in addition to patching this exploit at the firmware level in 6.20.    From Wordnik.com.  [eXophase.com, the Gamer's Phase] Reference

But is all this not an exercise in mere nostalgia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian-British Relations in 1987] Reference

Your belle-mere is lucky to have such a belle-fille!.    From Wordnik.com.  [troisième age - French Word-A-Day] Reference

The able must not for long remain mere collaborators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1955 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Your Belle-mere is so fortunate to have you in her life.    From Wordnik.com.  [troisième age - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Your belle-mere is very blessed to have you, a sweet ange.    From Wordnik.com.  [troisième age - French Word-A-Day] Reference

The OBC is so uncertain about its skill that he called a mere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get The Picture] Reference

I cannot express in mere words how enlightening those two shows were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - This American Bailout.] Reference

And I call a mere two million new subs in 2009 "choosing to stay out.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hear 2.0] Reference

The word mere implies that that is all that there is with mental activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths ��� 1 The Four Noble Truths in Terms of Mental Activity] Reference

In today's wired world, tribes can form, coalesce and disband in mere days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periodicals] Reference

Your belle-mere is most fortunate to have you as part of the Espinasse clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [troisième age - French Word-A-Day] Reference

It abounds in merry conceits, which that merriest of -- dare we call her mere woman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference

The word mere here implies that a second method exists that entails something further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Equalizing and Exchanging One's Attitudes about Self and Others] Reference

An old trunk with letters and account-books, some of them in Dutch, -- mere curiosities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian Angel] Reference

I say this now, knowing that in mere moments everything will fall away and I won't care again.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 20th, 2002] Reference

Now people talk of democracy as being coarse and turbulent: it is a self-evident error in mere history.    From Wordnik.com.  [superversive: A digression] Reference

So the government offers remain mere symbolic gestures of no actual value in the grand scheme of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Sanders: ‘I Do Not Want To See A Global Warming Bill Become A Bonanza For The Coal Industry’] Reference

All along the highway, the trees have gone brilliant shades of autumn, colours beyond recounting in mere words.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Here, by the ocean, the sky's filled with leaves..."] Reference

My belle-mere is from Provence, though she moved to England many years ago and it was there that I met her son.    From Wordnik.com.  [rencontre - French Word-A-Day] Reference

She has the ability to take our team out of a lull and all of a sudden turn the momentum around in mere seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Coach: Hamm sparks team to higher level] Reference

Yes, the belle-mere is lucky to have you, both for physical support, such as holding your arm, and companionship.    From Wordnik.com.  [troisième age - French Word-A-Day] Reference

In fact, he hired his own lecturers, and spent a sizable fortune on them in mere traveling expenses over California.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference

This started out as a bit of a joke and within mere minutes turned into a finished product with participants: The Twitter Agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Teacher › Useful Links: the power of Twitter, Yahoo pipes] Reference

I did need something to map my gamepad to the keyboard, and JoystickCursorTool (download here) had me up and running in mere minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-School Conan Video Games Part III] Reference

Her conversation has more charms than can be in mere beauty, and her humour and disposition would make a deformed person appear lovely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference

I consider the enemies of poetry to be found not among those who practise poetry or guard it but in mere lack of agreement in the poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pablo Neruda - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The impetuosity of your senses may have led you to term mere animal desire the source of principle; and it may give zest to some years to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Wollstonecraft] Reference

The impetuosity of your senses, may have led you to term mere animal desire, the source of principle; and it may give zest to some years to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference

With the release of its first title mere days away, Futuremark Game Studios has issued more screenshots and footage from its multiplayer PC shooter Sh.    From Wordnik.com.  [*Shacknews* Games] Reference

Such an aggressive personality cannot grow up in mere dependence even under the guidance of a will like Miss Sullivan's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life] Reference