1
This keeping of distance was no mere figure of speech for her.
2
That is no mere figure of speech: it is an actual truth.
3
These reinforcements of ours have proved no mere figure of speech.
4
This is no mere figure of speech; it is fact.
5
But his remark was not a mere figure of speech.
6
We are mere figure-heads upon a hulk, with livers in the place of hearts.
7
So, to hold commerce with the dead is not a mere figure of speech.
8
A mere figure for the front page of illustrated papers.'
9
Perhaps calling her partner had been a sop to her, a mere figure of speech.
10
That's a mere figure of speech, just as one says, 'I'll blow your brains out.'
11
And that was no mere figure of speech.
12
But you know as well as I do that that is a mere figure of speech.
13
There should be no mere figure-heads or machinery.
14
Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.
15
It was no mere figure of speech.
16
It was a mere figure of speech.
