It was much honor that he did me, a mere female slave.

They would be used without reservation, of course, in the case of mere slaves.

I, a mere slave, went cold at the thought that Attica was the chattel of such as these.

She knew he could not be genuinely concerned for the welfare of a mere slave and her child.

It was clear that the station's enormous profits were created by the free labor of a people who had been reduced to mere slaves.

Why not lie to a mere slave if it advanced his scheme to get himself eaten by the slave's mistress?

You do a good job of delegating, but there's things - like the local nests - that a mere slave shouldn't be asked to handle.

That a mere slave witnesses two of those moments is not to be tolerated or forgiven.

Bacon himself gives the example of Aristotle, "who made his natural philosophy a mere slave to his logic."

Horun's eyes showed that he suddenly realized he was saying too much to a mere slave.