Passable--but of course a mere child; she may improve and may go the other way.
He never yet had thought of his daughter except as a mere child, and he did not mean for an instant to intimate that her growing interest in the young lieutenant was anything more than a "school-girl" fancy.
McLean had spoken to him manfully and asked his consent, but he rebuffed him, saying she was a mere child.
Well, I presume likely she is a mere child compared to some folks.
You are supposed to be managing this place, Cordelia Berry, and if you are willing to turn your duties over to a--a mere child we aren't willing to let you.
He contended that a boy who is finishing his fourteenth year, if he is not fully matured, at least is not a mere child, but on the contrary, is capable of performing all kinds of heroic deeds, especially if he has Polish and French blood.
As he had no one to speak to about this, he finally decided to acquaint Nell with his intentions, though he regarded her as a mere child.
She is a mere child; she has few opportunities; and if she had-— well, I think it would recall to her what she only half understood.
This fondness became at length a passion, and excited the surprise of his friends, who could not imagine why a mere child should be so much interested in such things.
He came to this country when a mere child, and was brought up in the State of Connecticut, where he received a good common-school education.
When a mere child, he learned to play on the fife, and was such a proficient performer that he was called upon with the town drummer to furnish music for the militia musters, which were then the pride of the town.
But what could have induced a mere child to do such a thing, he is scarcely thirteen years old?
Because she is still a mere child, a mere schoolgirl; five years hence it will be quite time enough to provide her with a husband.
She is a mere child, they say, but she seems to be quite grown up.
A mere child, barely out of the schoolroom, petulant, spoiled, selfish!
Francesca sighed, for she did not understand the man, though hitherto she had always understood him, or thought that she had, ever since she had been a mere child, playing with his colours and brushes in the Palazzo Braccio.
She remembered him from the time when she had been a mere child, before her sudden transition to womanhood.
Oh, I remember, the wild lad who went off to America; but that was when I was a mere child.
It was not until he was left alone in the silence and stillness of the gloomy workshop of the undertaker, that Oliver gave way to the feelings which the day's treatment may be supposed likely to have awakened in a mere child.
I remembered her as an infant; I had seen her grow up day by day under my eyes; time seemed to make no difference; she was still a mere child in my sight.
You told me that she was a girl, a mere child," the lady said, addressing the baron as he introduced his daughter to her.
How he escaped unhurt I do not know; but I helped him to rise, and, scarcely thinking what I did, but looking on him as a mere child, I bade him remount his horse and get back to his own people as fast as he could.
When she was a mere child at school, and all her brothers and sisters very young, her father died.
Her first attempts began when she was a mere child.
Thus were we impelled, even when a mere child, far away from the manse, for miles, into the moors and woods.
War, that dread game that nations play at, is now to the poor insane soldier a mere child's pastime, from which sometimes he himself will turn with a sigh or a smile.
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