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• Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.
• The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.
• So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion.
• Meere ignorance, and wholy relying on others, was verily more profitable and wiser, than is this verball, and vaine knowledge.
• I saved a mere 10 pounds this week.
• If every man might have what he would[...]we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.
• Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
• More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
• Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.