The whole affair was regarded as a mere incident.
It cannot be a mere incident like Wijzer's drawing his map and the rest.
In those paintings, he reduces worldly images to mere incidents of Art.
But Chauvelin was not the man to trouble himself about these social amenities, which he called mere incidents in his diplomatic career.
These little things may seem trivial to relate, and passed as mere incidents at the time.
To Thern's imperturbable visitor, death's close squeeze had become a mere incident of the past.
Time was no longer sequential; it was mere isolated incidents unrelated by before and after.
His writing became once more a mere incident in his life.
To her, I suppose, it was a mere passing incident.
Ripping up was a mere incident in it.