Meanings of led merely in inglês

In others it led merely to defeat and degradation.

Nothing but a hollow, empty sound on the wire, as though it led merely into the universe in general.

I had never seen the door open, and I had never inquired anything about it, supposing it led merely into the tower.

That course, for the moment, led merely to Miss Bart's boarding-house; but its shabby door-step had suddenly become the threshold of the untried.