He tossed them back as if they were mere children.

She had been a mere child five years ago, scarcely old enough to distinguish right from wrong.

I was a mere child again, a toddler just learning to walk.

"Yes; the point is that those two are mere children."

But to keep this in perspective, America is a mere child when it comes to the use of the peanut.

No mere child should be forced to face such a thing.

More than the launch from Earth when she was a mere child.

And all this was for a girl, a mere wilful child!

She must have been a mere child herself when the boy was conceived.

Yet who would have expected such skill from a mere child?