We float through the universe sailing aboard a mere lump of rock we've named Earth.

He told Judge Kaplan that the rat, now deflated, was a mere "lump of plastic" and "not evidence of anything."

He described Pooley's hands as "mere lumps of deformity" and attributed their condition to rheumatism caused by drink.

It was a familiar situation and contact with a mere lump of rock would have produced no alteration in the familiarity.

But most of the hunting birds were mere lumps of bloody feathers.

It was, after all, a mere lump of polished glass.

'Yet this is a mere lump of metal on a piece of wood,' said Mr White, hefting the axe.

The motor-bus burst into fragments and its passengers hurtled through the air, mere hideous lumps that had been men and women.

Mr. Godard is dismissed as a mere lump of ordure "on a pedestal," a poseur and a political hypocrite.

These are mere lumps of rock.