What would a mere woman be in their hands?

"How can we lose to mere women with John's prayers and sharp eye to lead us to victory?"

They didn't like to be seen talking with a mere woman.

You think that a mere woman could escape from here?

"After she, a mere woman, treated you in such a way?"

In his day such a swipe from a mere woman would have.

But you take on too much for any mere woman.

He had never thought that a mere woman's hand could be so sweetly soft.

The scale was much too heroic for a mere woman.

Could he not break free from a mere woman?