Chapter

 1 2 |    oversight of Nature by the mere arrangement of the things
 2 3 |    Mlle. R., who makes by her mere talent twice what the women
 3 4 |      a sale of that kind is a mere nothing, and I do not remember
 4 4 |   higher for this book out of mere obstinacy and to annoy some
 5 4 |     take those two lines as a mere empty compliment." ~"You
 6 7 |      alone. It was no doubt a mere chance, but the chance filled
 7 7 |      vanished in smoke at the mere touch of her dress. ~ ~
 8 9 |     at once the virgin whom a mere nothing had turned into
 9 9 |      and the courtesan whom a mere nothing would have turned
10 9 |       to me in the others the mere results of bad company or
11 10|   Marguerite, "we are talking mere childishness. Give me your
12 12|     lover in obedience to the mere will of the senses, and
13 12| effect on the audience by her mere presence there. ~And I had
14 14|   could always look upon as a mere chance if it succeeded. ~
15 25|       have suffered so at the mere thought of a new lover?
16 27|      her own happiness at the mere invocation of her name. ~