Meanings of mere automaton in English

I am a mere automaton; and as such they have treated me!

You have heard Jervis's description of his condition; that of a mere automaton.

He really degenerated, although he did not know it, into a mere automaton.

And Otway, a mere automaton, dropped upon his chair, gazing at her, trembling.

She shouldn't become a mere automaton,-andthese questions involve so much!

Beatrice laughed; and Nancy, become a mere automaton, laughed too.

But he is not a mere automaton or ogre.

He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.

I may have been a mere automaton, under the control of a series of reflex actions.

For the rest, he was a mere automaton.

He ought to know that she is a mere automaton, cold, lifeless, spiritless, and even vapid.

The insect differs from a mere automaton in this, that it is influenced by old, by registered impressions.

He is a mere automaton.

He ceased, abruptly, to be the mere automaton that had moved and acted, without will of its own, for the past four-and-twenty hours.

At times his mind wandered farther afield, and he plodded on, a mere automaton, strange conceits and whimsicalities gnawing at his brain like worms.

Apparently he was a mere automaton, the sole symbol of life showing in the white fingers so deftly dealing the fateful pasteboards from the box.