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 1        I,  I   |      gives me a prior right.”~“Mere seniority, I assert, in
 2        I,  III |     captain murmured:~ “Words, mere words, cannot avail,~Telling
 3        I,  VII |    they would if they had been mere shells; but he was still
 4        I,  X   |        so buoyant, that by the mere effect of oscillation they
 5        I,  XIII|    which startled them? Was it mere fancy? Was it the reverberation
 6        I,  XVII|    upon the islet, which was a mere plot of meadow land, not
 7        I,  XXIV|      their minds that it was a mere cairn to which they had
 8       II,  IV  |        cast, otherwise than as mere instruments to be turned
 9       II,  V   | spring-balance, dependent upon mere tension or flexibility,
10       II,  X   |       space beyond, this was a mere nothing.~
11       II,  XI  |  certain to be far more than a mere object of scientific interest
12       II,  XIV |        here was a professor, a mere man of science, with circumscribed
13       II,  XVII|       modest little fortune— a mere bagatelle,” said the Jew.~“