Come Widow come, never stand upon a Knight-hood, 'tis a meer paper honour, and not proof enough for a Serjeant.
I did my best yesterday, in talking of Haarlem, to awaken interest in the huge Haarlemmer-meer Polder, and its importance in the modern scheme of the Netherlands.
At Halfweg, a little cluster of humble dwellings, I turned out of the main canal, skirting the side of the Haarlemmer-meer Polder, opposite to that which we had followed yesterday.
I should have liked better to be out on a meer in Friesland, in a stiff breeze; but since it had to be Broek, I made the best of it.
We passed from the meercalled Morra into the biggest in all Friesland, Fluessen Meer; and it was all rather like the Norfolk Broads, where my father once took me when I was a child.
We were skirting one side of the green plain which has been reclaimed from the water, converting the meer into a "polder.
Then, at meer thought of fair chastity, Straight cools again the tempests of her sea: So when to you I my devotions raise, All wrath and storms do end in calm and praise.
Behold a mist of insects, whose meer breath Will melt thy hallow'd leaden house of death.
It is not meer Zeal to Learning, or devotion to the Muses, that wiser Princes Patronize the Arts, etc.
But being not ordained for meer lustre by diaphanous and pure tralucencies, their mysterious significations became more considerable then their Gemmary substances; and those no doubt did nobly answer the intention of the Institutor.
And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this World, and that the conceits of this life are as meerdreams to those of the next, as the Phantasms of the night, to the conceits of the day.
If so, the two famous Epigrams hereof in Martial are but Poetical, the Pismire of Brassavolus imaginary, and Cardans Mousoleum for a Flie, a meer phansie.
Although I confess the quality of the Subject will sometimes carry us into expressions beyond meer English apprehensions.
How shall the dead arise, is no question of my Faith; to believe only possibilities, is not Faith, but meer Philosophy.
Van derMeer was also a splendid portrait-painter and excelled in landscapes, in which he sacrificed figures to trees, cottages, and lanes.
Decidedly Van der Meer has an affection for the blue sky.
This variety of dress is absolutely indispensible for all those who pretend to any rank above the meer bourgeois.
Might not this beauty tell me it's a sweet one, Without more setting off, as now it is, Thanking no greater Mistress than meer nature, Stagger a constant heart?
Say they are won to pardon ye, by meer miracle Brought to forgive ye; what old valiant Souldier, What man that loves to fight, and fight for Rome, Will ever follow you more?
The men of Meerare to report at once to the army headquarters at Malines.
III THE ALARM For some time the little village of Meerslept quietly in the moonlight.
As they turned from the cart-path into the road, the old blue cart became part of a little profession of similar wagons, for the other men of Meer were also late in coming home to the village from their outlying farms.
Under Our ballast main, it blowing a meer frett of wind att No.
She sent to him Mirza Allee, one of her Wakeels; and with him Captain Shakespear, and the Meer Moonshee, he forced his way through the dense crowd, and got safely into the baraduree.
Hakeem Mehndee was as anxious as Aga Meer had been to keep the King estranged from his imperious mother, and the only sure way was to make him persist in repudiating the boy or postponing his claim to the succession.
I told Aga Meer that evil would certainly befall him or his house if he shot the animal, and begged his Majesty not to assist upon the minister's doing it.
From the said Hurkling Edge so forward after the Rock to Stannedge, which is a meerbetween the said Lordshipps (of Hallamshire and Hathersedge).
From Stannedge after the same rock to a place called the Broad Rake, which is also a meer between the said Lordshipps of Hallamshire and Hathersedge.
The Meer Nawab planted the cannon, which he had brought with him across the river, on the south-east of our position, near the Artillery Mess House.
The Oude soldiers under the Meer Nawab were known to themselves and their compatriots as the men of the Nadiree and the Akhtaree Regiments.
But when the fog rolled away, he sent out his clear baritone to greet the sun-kissed ocean, and the burden of his song was once more: "Das Meer erglaenzte weit hinaus!
Among others appeared that of Khan Cochut, as also of several of the chiefs who had deserted Meer Ali Singh among the mountains.
They encamped outside, that they might get into order and present themselves in a becoming manner to the rajah, Meer Ali Singh, the despotic governor of the province.
Sultan Feroze Shaw was enraged at his not going with him to his camp, and said to Meer Fuzzul Oollah that he would one day have his revenge for the affront offered him by such neglect.
Meer Fuzzul Oollah, who commanded the troops of Islaam, charged the infidels with heroic vigour, and, routing their center, proceeded to attack their right wing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
