But as I did so I realized that to destroy United States mail not merely entailed criminal liability, but was off color morally.
By merely tipping them the wink, they'll have you out of this, and after they've got you outside I wouldn't give the toss of a nickel for your life.
I didn't try to make it any too brief, not merely asking for a guard and when I might expect it, but giving as well a pretty full history of the case, which was hardly necessary.
I wasn't so green as to tell Miss Cullen so, and merely said, "By the time, this must be Sanders.
Of course the dynamite cartridge was only a blind, and the letters had been thrown about the car merely to confuse the clerk.
I thought it was a little sense of what they were doing, but it was merely due to the command of Baldwin, who, with Camp, stood just outside the mob.
Every hour convinced me that the two understood each other, not merely from the little asides and confidences they kept exchanging, but even more so from the way Miss Cullen would take his lordship down occasionally.
My special is the next car, and I was merely enjoying a cigar here.
He merelymeant that it was safer they shouldn't know.
For many years I have been laboring under the wrong impression, that salt is placed on the table merelyfor the purpose of salting boiled eggs, which the cook cannot salt in advance.
Modern arms have increased this difficulty manifold, but to say the day of cavalry on the field of battle is past is merely another way of saying that the knowledge of how it should be used is wanting.
Was it merely a habit of mind, a trick of thought engendered by this idle, aimless Venetian life?
It not infrequently happened that everybody present desisted from conversation, merely for the pleasure of a placid contemplation of her mental processes.
He believed, at the time, that it wasmerely the prospect of better acquaintance with the prettiest and brightest girl it had yet been vouchsafed him to meet.
XIV A Summer's Day May had been quite correct in her surmise that Kenwick was shamming, though this was merely based on general theories.
So enchanting did she find them, indeed, that she had merely glanced at the card, and had tossed it into the waste-paper basket without looking at the reverse side.
Culpepper, held to be merely zigzag dartings of fitful, gouty matter.
Eymann's clipped and carved parsonage-garden was in fact merely a continued family-room without roof or partition.
In fact, with a perfectly rational woman a man never feels himself quite well; and only with a merely fine, fanciful, ardent, capricious one is he truly at home.
It is an admirable remedy against toothache, and if the teeth be merely rubbed with that claw the pain leaves them; however, it must be cut off while the fish is alive.
The climate is fine, and the people would pay homage to the Spaniards very willingly, as we were told there, merely to be freed from the tyrannical dominion of the king of Macasar.
If not, I will merelydemand your word of honor that what has passed between us shall never be mentioned to any human soul—and you shall go free.
And the priests moved about with an arrogant swing of their hips, and all the people salaamed at their approach, as if they’d been gods themselves, instead merely the servers of gods, and dressed in their best garb.
If the thing wounded or dead, or merely resting even, would not harm him, it could not hurt them.
It was too late to retreat, Lucilla knew, so she merely paused, and held her ground.
But neither of them had at all confidently expected it would be, and Traherne merely nodded grimly.
With no plan in his head, merely urged by an obscure impulse, he set out for the village of Venning, which was about three miles from Skene.
I assert merely that, if evidence as conclusive were offered of any other historical event, it would be credited beyond doubt.
Since then she had worked industriously at Colarossi's Academy, by no means under the delusion that she had talent, but merely to amuse herself.
I wished merely to give you his account of how he raised the spirit of Apollonius of Tyana in London.
It may be described merely as the intelligent utilization of forces which are unknown, contemned, or misunderstood of the vulgar.
Crowley told fantastic stories of his experiences, but it was hard to say whether he was telling the truth or merely pulling your leg.
Once there, he had used her natural sympathy as a means whereby to exercise his hypnotic power, and all she had seen was merely the creation of his own libidinous fancy.
I know that on that day when he seemed to be at the point of death, he wasmerely playing a trick on me, and he got Susie out of the way by sending a telegram from a girl whose name he had seen on a photograph.
He no longer struck you merely as an insignificant little man with hollow cheeks and a thin grey beard; for the weariness of expression which was habitual to him vanished before the charming sympathy of his smile.
The suspense in which its difficulty holds us, continues, he observes, “only so long as we confine ourselvesmerely to a mutual comparison of the parallel passages.
In this philosophy, matter in its primary state, primitive matter, if I may so speak, was regarded merely as the substratum of attributes, being in itself devoid of all.
In treating of the actual details of the paschal ceremony, it is necessary to distinguish between those which were of legal obligation, and those which were merely consuetudinary or occasional.
This states merely a general fact, that of an evil condition of society, for which judgment of God is represented as poured out from heaven.
He merely observed, by way of compliment, that Mr. Augustus and his companion seemed to be "rolling kiddies.
There is often something alarming in an occurrence merelybecause it is that which we least expect.
He merelycast one look at the old woman, whose rage was now half subsided, and turned slowly and in silence to the door.
I merely made use of the cockroach simile because it occurred to me as I traversed the Italian quarter and gazed upon its denizens, an occasional accidental rub against one of whom made me shudder.
They are of course merely non-critical, eulogistic accounts of the artist and his work.
True, so was the great boom of 1887 merely a fanciful picture on paper.
Well, I should not have thought so, merely judging character as an artist.
He ignored this altogether, and I now merely mention the incident to show that he was vindictive from the very first.
His sixteen "outsides" bestow upon me a supercilious look that conveys to me that they opine I am merely cabbing it to the station en route for a "suburban hop.
Yes, she is not as vivacious as the American girl, but she is more sincere and thorough, and a deeper thinker, and not so muchmerely on the surface as our girls are.
I was merely a bird of passage, a rara avis, a visitor without an eye on the almighty dollar.
Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation.
In the construction of a temple or a pyramid not merely was it necessary to have regard to the points of the compass, but care must be taken to have the sides at right angles.
Scientific law appeared not merely as a formulation and explanation of observed phenomena but as a means for the discovery of new truths.
It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the passion for doing good.
He went merely as a collector, and frequently in the course of the voyage felt a young man's misgivings as to whether his collections would be of value to his Cambridge professors and other mature scientists.
Very little advance in culture could be made even by the greatest man of genius if he were dependent, for what knowledge he might acquire, merely on his own personal observation.
His is merely disinterested knowledge, according to Nietzsche.
In fact, Franklin was the embodiment of that union of scientific ideas and practical skill in the industries that with them was merely a pious wish.
Matter, which appears to be merely passive and wanting in form and arrangement, has in its simplest state a tendency to fashion itself by a natural development into a more perfect constitution.
Many of the defeated assumptions have been merely implicit errors of the man in the street, and they are overthrown not by facts alone, but by new hypotheses verified by facts and leading to fresh discoveries.
But in pursuing this policy he thought he was proceeding on the ground of immemorial practice, while he was merely pitting the seventeenth-century doctrine of Locke against the doctrine of Adam Smith which had superseded it.
Wagner was exiled and Morris merely "cautioned," placed under police surveillance and ostracized.
But when he had listened to the lad's playing, he consented to take him as a pupil, merely saying that he showed a certain degree of promise.
There is good evidence that the boy could read music before he could read writing, and that he threw into his playing such feeling and expression as Ferdinand Reis, who merelyimitated his master, Beethoven, had never anticipated.
We see the whole land, even if but from afar, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.
If you understand what I say, it is because you have thought the same thoughts yourself--I merely express for you that which you already know.
At first they had wished merely to round out the boy's education with a proper amount of musical instruction, and now they reluctantly allowed the old teacher to have his way--the lad must make his career a musical one.
Some of the strings were drawn so tight that they snapped at the first touch; others merely flapped; some growled; and others groaned and moaned or squealed.
This embassy was not merely one of those pompous legations such as Charlemagne, Louis XIV.
I willmerely throw together a few facts which came to my knowledge at the time, and which I find in my correspondence.
The son of a stationer, who was able merely through his own resources to play so remarkable a part, could be no ordinary man.
The real motive of his change of party was, as it is with all such men, merely the hope of a higher reward.
Fauche-Borel merely passed through Hamburg, and embarked for London on board the same ship which took Lord Morpeth back to England.
Blucher was of an extremely gay disposition; and considered merely as a companion he was very agreeable.
My counsel here “Not merely faithful (though our faith the whole “Our promise can insure) but happy prov'd.
But Signor Guido fought my battle, what with reason and what with ranting, what with entreaties and what with threats: so they merely banisht me out of the dear land.
Educated by a rigid father, who lived in the greatest penury, my childhood and youth were merely suffering and sorrow.
My daughter, though she has seen how I suffer hunger and trouble, and how I have stinted and starved my old mouth, merely to put her into fine clothes, the graceless wench would never let me coax her into earning but a single half-crown.
In like manner by merely willing it he can also send them forthwith from the place whence he takes them, to Russia, or Calcutta, or anywhere else, and bring back the money he asks for them.
I too can't bear him, if I were merelyto follow my own feelings; for he is a thoroughly utterly odious creature.
An artist of this sort," continued the old miner, "may however ascend a great deal higher; for such things after all would be merely a jest.
With a little money--it would be ridiculous were I to mention the sum; many take so much merely to fill their bellies--I engaged in a small line of business.
In the morning it seemed to me as if the whole had been merely a dream.
You have merely got to keep near them, and you needn't even keep on your horse unless you like.
I cannot shoot as he does, but I can teach you to shoot fairly, and after that it is merely a matter of incessant practice.
Now that Steve has got safe away we know we shall get help before very long; and it would be foolish to run any risk merely from want of care.
If I had a troop of Indians after me Prince would have to do his best whether it was twenty miles or fifty; but I would not press him when it was merely a question of making money on him.
So I think you would find it extremely difficult to get a verdict out in California merely on the evidence of these two gentlemen, and of my own that he was possessed of a letter I wrote to Tunstall.
Why should you refuse what he wished you to have, merely because you think that it ought to have come to you in the first place?
This fact, considered together with what has been said above, compels the conclusion that modesty is a feeling merely of acute self-consciousness due to appearing unusual, and is the result of clothing rather than the cause.
Thus the temples required clothing not merely for the gods but also for the attendants (so at Samaria, 2 Kings x.
The subjection of the great was part of Strafford's settled policy, and consequently, instead of seeking his collaboration in developing the country and in maintaining order, he studied merelyto diminish his influence.
The surname is inaccurate, since he never reached India proper; further, it is doubtful whether Cosmas is a family name, or merely refers to his reputation as a cosmographer.
A cap merely intended to cover in the hair and hold it together was called [Greek: kekryphalos].
Here a pilaster forming the back of the figure receives a Corinthian capital, upon which the architrave rests; and the figures merely brace up the pilaster.
Did you ever, when listening to it, consider that your interest in its enunciation of principles was merely incidental, not direct?
Doubtless we may carry our efforts to excess in this direction as well as any other, by calling into unduly vigorous and persistent action the merely receptive energies of the mind.
Nature or the external world impresses itself upon mind, primarily, through the Senses, and predominantly stands related with the sense of Feeling, of which all the other special senses are merely modified forms or differentiations.
We shall content ourselves with merely adducing another illustration of our author's extremely speculative and metaphysical cast of mind, and then close this section of the review.
The Prohibition Amendment is not merely an impairment of the principle of self-government of the States; it constitutes an absolute abandonment of that principle.
Yet from the moment the Amendment was thus adopted by Congress, nothing more was heard of this notion of that body having performed the merely ministerial act of passing the question on to the Legislatures.
It is a reaction from the notion of liability merely as a corollary of culpability.
Application is merely formulation in a judgment of the result obtained by analysis of the case and logical development of the premises contained in the reported decisions.
Once more we must build rather than merely improve; we must create rather than merely order and systematize and logically reconcile details.
Finally it came to be thought that no liability without fault was not merely common law but was natural law and that any legislative imposition of such liability was arbitrary and unreasonable in itself and hence unconstitutional.
Finding the law may consist merely in laying hold of a prescribed text of a code or statute.
This raises in the first instance the question "How is a merely juridical or rational [as distinguished from a purely physical] possession possible?
He merely lost an extraordinary and supplementary remedy and was left to the ordinary course of the law.
Then, pantomimes went through, notmerely a part of one, but several seasons.
This piece was merely an alteration of the unlicensed "Trip to Calais," in which Foote had gibbetted the Duchess of Kingston.
The greatest injury has been done to his memory by the publication of jests, of a very reprehensible character, and which were said to be his, merely to quicken their sale.
I say "listen," for the comedy is a merely conversational piece, sparkling with wit, and with fewer lines to shock the purer sense than many an old play which still retains a place upon the stage.
Cooke, who tells the story, merely says that Garrick pronounced Weston's Abel Drugger "one of the finest pieces of acting he ever saw.
There had been a long expressed desire for a new theatre; that is, not merely a new edifice, but a new system.
Eva Maria Garrick twice refused Lord Monboddo, who had written a book to show that humanity was merely apedom without the tail.
The Mysterious Stranger merely asked to be driven to the best hotel.
A light dawned upon Nat, and laughter flooded his being, although outwardly he remained imperturbable--merely mildly curious.
Parisian wickedness is not so discouraging merely because it is wicked, as from a suspicion that it is draining the life-blood of the nation.
There is no name upon the stern, and it exhibits merely a carved eagle, with the wings clipped and the head knocked off.
You cannot conceive yourself to be watching something which merely turns on an axis; but it seems suddenly to expand, a flower of light, or to close, as if soft petals of darkness clasped it in.
It is not merely that the body decays, but that men grow isolated and are pushed aside; there is no common interest between age and youth.
There is so little snow that the outlook in the depth of winter is often merely that of a paler and leafless summer, and a soft, springlike sky almost always spreads above.
Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope are in their phrase but the West Cape and the East Cape, merely two familiar portals of their wonted home.
The actual process was merely a subsidence so calm and gentle that a child might have stood upon the deck till it sank beneath him, and then might have floated away.
She seems a fit emblem of the genius that waits, while talent merely wins.
The viscount was not merely his model, but his oracle as well.
However, as he found himself in such a plight and could not afford to let any chance escape, he repaired merely for form's sake to the Vantrasson establishment.
Her common sense told her that her task would merely consist in carefully watching the behavior of the General and his wife, in noting their expenditure, and so on.
If, instead of being a trifle short of money, you happened to be ruined, I should not ask you merely for a thousand francs.
Others may pretend to oblige people merely from motives of friendship," he remarked.
He allowed his wife eight thousand francs a month, almost one hundred thousand francs a year, merely for her dresses and fancies.
He would have gone there before the appointed time if he had merely listened to the promptings of his impatience, so thoroughly was he persuaded that this second interview would be decisive.
In the afternoon, when I am in a restaurant, at the club, or in a lady's boudoir, I am merely the viscount and the grand seigneur.
Do you suppose that I, Baron Trigault, that I've worked like a negro for twenty years merely for the purpose of aiding your charming and useful branch of industry?
