What they thought was a bear was merely the shadow of a large boulder. From LearnThat.org.
I was merely asking. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Turks or Moors, and Hājji Khalīfa records the title merely as used by. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Cowley's ESSAYS, in which that writer seems to imply by the term merely a fine woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
Spirit transcends our understanding, and we use the term merely that we may think or speak of THE ALL. From Wordnik.com. [The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece] Reference
For Asman, nationalization was merely a code word for socialism. From Wordnik.com. [CommonDreams.org Headlines] Reference
In writing these Satires, which he calls merely rhythmical prose. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
A few other things, he is described on the label merely as "Book Reviewer, 1936-1990". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
Your "spirit" of Vatican II is merely a code word for "interpretation", most often wayward. From Wordnik.com. [National Catholic Reporter] Reference
For all its window dressing, 'Universal health care' is merely a code word for socialized medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Demetrius: his name merely would be a protection. '. From Wordnik.com. [Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century] Reference
Often the word merely indicated the direction, south. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The coin merely reflects what has already transpired. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
"She certainly would acquire no title merely through her marriage.". From Wordnik.com. [A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories] Reference
In fact, Iran's 'cozying up' to Latin American merely began in 2005. From Wordnik.com. [Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] Reference
But the writer has used the phrase merely as a synonym for "makes the claim". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
I wish to say a word merely because I happen to desire it of my own free will. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
The word merely went from one log house to another, fixing the day for the dance. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
In some places the expression merely means a very strong, dry, and deadly wind, as in. From Wordnik.com. [Theologico-Political Treatise] Reference
If the Club be the suit unstopped, the call merely forces an advance in the No-trump. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
As a piece of historical evidence, the phrase merely sums up some archaeologist's theory. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Town-Planning] Reference
The foolish curtsy and her words, spoken unexpectedly in English, merely confirmed the fact. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
That was a name merely; there was no death, -- only a change into some other form of existence. From Wordnik.com. [Ziska] Reference
I use the word merely as a convenient label for the league of the unconquered peoples in Britain. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Prandial Philosophy] Reference
He will surely need in his sincere attitude to life a freedom of mind that is not a name merely but. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of Freedom] Reference
Is gratitude no affection of the human breast, or is that a word merely, without any meaning or reality?. From Wordnik.com. [An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals] Reference
The constable who took her call merely echoed his miserable colleague, like someone reading from a script. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
Lotys was to me a name merely, -- but I knew it was a name to conjure with -- a name beloved of the People. From Wordnik.com. [Temporal Power] Reference
Since they are so much more familiar than the cuprous salts, they are frequently called merely copper salts. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
But the occurrence does not leave him with the word merely, there is a direct inference "B has tuberculosis.". From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
At first the name merely struck him as familiar, and he came near asking himself "Where have I seen that before?". From Wordnik.com. [Revenge!] Reference
Suddenly his eyes darted in alarm back to his instruments, but then his expression merely subsided into a steady frown. From Wordnik.com. [Life, the Universe, and Everything]
Kevin cant merely be judged by his vocals, being said that, you've got to listen to his voice with your heart and soul. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
No, Apple is simply arrogant enough to assert it owns the word merely by its inclusion in the name of an Apple product. From Wordnik.com. [Computerworld] Reference
To him the word "vital" is a word merely, it stands for no reality, and the secret of life is merely a chemical reaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
Of course the common prefix Duro, is only the Welsh Dwr, water, and its occurrence in a name merely implies a ford or river. From Wordnik.com. [Science in Arcady] Reference
Cagayán, the most distant part of the island, which contains the city of Nueva Segovia (which consists of the name merely). From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference
Gulliver's Travels, his name merely as a poet would have come down to us, and have gone down to posterity with well earned honours. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
The people must be inevitably disposed to such pernicious habits, merely from the short duration of their tenure which the law has allowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)] Reference
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