Which preposition to use with mere

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A month before, in a far-off place, J. Rodney Potts had suffered extinction through the apparently casual agency of a moving railway train, the intervention of the gods in all such matters being discreetly veiled so that the denser of us shall suspect nothing but that they were the merest of accidents.

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Rejecting the supposed allusion to Heywood's Woman Kill'd with Kindness, which I see, by a note, Mr. Collier gives up as untenable ground, the facts, I believe, remain as follows: First: The Taming of the Shrew was not mentioned by Meres in 1598, whereupon it is assumed that "had it been written, he could scarcely have failed to mention it."

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The Ilfing flows from Est-land into the Est-mere from the east, and the Wisle through Weonodland from the south.

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But when the ground becomes "scrumpety," as the natives say, with the first severe frost, back they come from the frozen meres to their old home; and if one can keep out of sight (and this is no easy matter in December)

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But trifles look so trivial As soon as you have come, That blame is just as dear as praise And praise as mere as blame.

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I verily believe, that the child is nothing mere than the offspring of a begging gipsy, and that if her mother had been hanged, she would only have met with her deserts.

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Eldon spoke against us, and treated the question of a King en venire sa mere with jocularity.

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These last words were uttered with a kind of sneer, which was very provoking, however, I restrained my passion during the little time he stayed; but as soon as I found myself alone gave it vent in tears and exclamations,since which I have been mere at peace within myself; for tho' I cannot say I hate him, I am now far from loving him, and hope that time and absence may bring me to a perfect indifference.

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Thus we are indebted to Meres for a list of the plays which Shakespeare had produced by 1598, and for a striking testimony to his eminence at that date as a dramatic poet, as a narrative poet, and as a writer of sonnets.

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Mabel and I dined tête-à-tête at two; I had caused dinner to be served earlier than usual for my own convenience, though indeed I found it a mere formfor how could I swallow a morsel, choked as I was with grief, while the fair child I worshipped, yet was forsaking, sat so calmly and unconsciously in my sight!

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The contagion of his high spirits is, however, irresistible; and, putting aside all other and more solid qualities in them, these chapters are, for mere funfor that kind of clever nonsense which only wins by perfect spontaneity, and which so promptly makes ashamed the moment spontaneity failsunsurpassed by anything of the same kind from the same hand.

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