We have no meanings for "mere pain" in our records yet.
1 She would never have yielded to mere pain ; she was a stout girl at heart.
2 It had been hard to stop with mere pain .
3 To a spirited collie, a kick carries more than the mere pain of its inflicting.
4 The pain must be awful - the mere pain !
5 There will still be pain, but with the agony gone, he'll be able to deal with mere pain .
6 But the wrists were saying they could feel something, an abrasion that was not mere pain but external.
7 And he chafed my back, inundating it with his fiery liniment till I was on the verge of fainting from mere pain .
8 While we gaze, forth from the recesses of the gynæceum there breaks a cry, expressing rather wrath and surprise than mere pain .
9 This was not mere pain that he suffered, but the ultimate nightmare horror of a death more awful than anything he had ever imagined.
10 Mere pain will not prevent Andy Murray playing in the French Open.
11 Mere pain and inconvenience are inevitable, but, on the whole, inconsiderable.
12 What are any mere pains of the flesh, to the glorious content of the unshackled spirit revelling in the freedom of its own nature?
13 "Then you believe that the divine will delights in mere pain - mere meaningless animal suffering-forits own sake?"
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