Although she'd protest at the mere notion, she sacrificed a possible future career as a contralto - to put marriage and the family first.

We are a busy people, sir,' said one of the captains, who was from the West, 'and have no time for reading mere notions.

And this in an era when many men, including her future husband, remained threatened by the mere notion of a female doctor?

That is the nightmare with which the mere notion of adaptation threatens us.

In fact, the mere notion made her wa to laugh.

"The price shall be high, good dwarf," she said, her eyes glinting at the mere notion of gold.

He supposed he would have to preach, though the mere notion of it was terrifying.

The suggestion filled him with fury-and something like panic at the mere notion of being without Claire.

Muslims who believed that God was above mere human notions of right and wrong were decrying his justice.

The mere notion had a sense of mission achieved, and Harold would be proud of her.