| 单词 | trifling |
| 例句 | A glorious moment was coming, my chest insisted, and even the fact that I myself would have no part in it—a member of the race God cursed, according to the Shaper’s tale—was trifling. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z That old trifling Cholly been out of jail two whole days and ain’t been here yet to see if his own child was ’live or dead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if he had had to pay the same note twice because of some trifling oversight of date or signature. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It is true, perhaps, that I feel some trifling dislike of deer, but no more dislike than I feel for other natural things— discounting men. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was never more surprised than by his behaviour to us. It was more than civil; it was really attentive; and there was no necessity for such attention. His acquaintance with Elizabeth was very trifling.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The race in question was a forgettable weekday event for a trifling purse, but Blume was strapped for money. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It would make the Grand Canyon look quaint and trifling. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Would anyone bother with a trifling robbery when there was death at every door? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Some trifling affront. He sold some poachers to a Tyroshi slaver instead of giving them to the Night's Watch. Ab-surd law. A man should be able to do as he likes with his own chattel." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z One he showed me depicted a swarm of stars with a trifling flare that I had to put close to my face to see. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The logs were ignited at long distance through a trifling diversion of the energy beam that fed the public buildings of the city. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z We were in a perpetual conversation with each other on topics both solemn and trifling. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Condemn it because it sends down stifling darkness, sucks the life from grass, and whitens the sapling leaf for trifling, fluttering friends? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I accepted that danger was an essential component of the game—without it, climbing would be little different from a hundred other trifling diversions. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And Frank Churchill was heard to say, “I think you could manage this without effort; the first part is so very trifling. The strength of the song falls on the second.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “I see. And that is where those trifling maladjustments come in which you mentioned awhile ago—steel, hydroponics and so on.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She felt so angry at Hecate and so tired of being manipulated by the gods that she wasn’t going to let any trifling problems stand in her way. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Since then we have learned better than to be shy about such trifling immodesties. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad said we should stay vigilant, but by winter my attention had shifted back to the trifling dramas of my own life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Not, uh, trifling with you, sir. Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night, and . . .” He paused, not wanting to reveal the true nature of his conspiracy. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z While many people in modern society treat the flu as just another annoying inconvenience, influenza is no trifling matter. 5 bogus excuses people use to avoid the flu vaccine 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z He’s composing a new tune, and time spent with a trifling drinking buddy threatens to distract him from this potential masterpiece. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: Giving Your Friend the Finger 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z He came home politicised, convinced that "the most grinding poverty is a trifling evil compared with the inequality of classes". Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Made of several ounces of ice-cold, undiluted gin or vodka, and a trifling amount of vermouth, it is a prelude to a stagger and a nap. 11 Essential Drinks at 11 Great Cocktail Bars 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z At first, his story seems potentially entertaining — the kind of tabula rasa trope Hollywood might convert to trifling comedy. David Stuart MacLean’s terrifying memoir of amnesia 2014-02-20T20:03:28Z Dispossession of one’s property is a trifling violation compared with theft of one’s personhood. Slavery’s Repercussions Unspool in a Dark Southern Tale 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z He decided that was a sign from above, and so put the trifling matter of technical requirements to one side and went ahead with his vision of musicians in the skies. Helicopter opera set for take off 2012-08-17T16:48:16Z It’s a trifling thing but it’s been nagging at my conscience. Ruben Östlund: ‘All my films are about people trying to avoid losing face’ 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Desolate, she sometimes implores the telephone to ring: “Is there no one in the whole world who would like to speak to me on any matter, however trifling?” ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “When I allude to you walking around with your pants hanging down your behind, that’s trifling,” he said. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith strikes back at ‘Uncle Tom’ charges after defending Mark Cuban 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Coming to the end of a near-perfect five-season run this week, first impressions might suggest that this is just a trifling slice of lightweight fluff. Farewell Jane the Virgin: the best possible antidote to TV's bleak streak 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z True, next to his history as an appeaser prepared to do all to accommodate the Nazis, the charge of marital infidelity may seem a bit trifling. ‘American Dynasties: The Kennedys’ Review: A Striving in the Blood 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The Aids memorial on Instagram is unlike anything else on social media – there is nothing trifling about it. Instagram's Aids memorial: ‘History does not record itself’ 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z She denounced women as “petty, trifling, priest-ridden, gossiping, stupid, inane,” and desperately in need of leadership from a superior being like herself. The Determined Siblings Who Became America’s First Women Doctors 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Cotler and Hoeglund throw themselves into everything, but with this trifling production the news and, consequently, “The News” has no mystery. Is it news or entertainment? The fuzziness of modern life gets operatic in JacobTV's 'The News' 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Typical of the sort of energetic vignettes that unfold in “For Joy,” the work is ultimately hectic and trifling. Dance Review: Passionate, Muscular Searches for Interpersonal Connections 2011-03-03T21:45:33Z In that, we would have been at one with the writer of the King James version's preface, Miles Smith, who insisted that "niceness in words was always counted the next step to trifling". The King James Bible reconsidered 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z Instead, Disney Japan decided to post it on one of the least “trifling” days on the Japanese calendar. Disney accidentally tweets out celebration of Nagasaki bombing anniversary 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z “Left deviationism in opera grows out of the same source as left deviationism in painting, in poetry, in pedagogy, in science,” the critic writes, finally denouncing Shostakovich for “trifling with difficult matters.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Though packed with accounts of events both significant and trifling — did I mention the time he complimented Tina Turner on her toenail polish at the royal premiere of “Goldeneye?” Review | Alan Cumming gets chummy in his gossipy and insightful book ‘Baggage’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z So the occasional stay in hospital, frequent check-ups – these come to seem like trifling sacrifices, no drain at all on the reservoir of your love. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z But such touches remain just that — filigree on a lazily told tale that reads like a creative-writing exercise in trying to write a softhearted hit man, or a trifling palate cleanser between Harry Hole books. Review: Jo Nesbo, in ‘Blood on Snow,’ Tries a New Kind of Hero 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Among other things, she was the fabric consultant – not the trifling role you might suppose. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z This is the wonderful paradox of the work: It is insistently trifling and insistently perfect. Fred Sandback, creating lines and defying boundaries at the Glenstone 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The first time I was consciously mad at Quin was over something so trifling that I felt I was crazy. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Though the dialogue quotes Andreas-Salomé on individualistic topics such as fantasy or narcissism, the film’s style remains tethered to trifling teatimes and the quarrels between those who are not yet lovers. Review: ‘Lou Andreas-Salomé’ Places a Great Woman in Her Time 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z They matched only the lower end of the estimate with a trifling $3.44 million. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Buyers Wonder, Will It Appreciate Over Time? 2011-02-24T13:00:03Z It may also explain why when he writes songs for others, like Beyoncé or Rihanna, he paints those women as conquering heroes, impervious to anything so trifling as male bravado. Review: The-Dream’s Soulful, Modern ‘Crown’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z But Gervais’s play-acting of despair is fundamentally trifling, as is his development from a nihilist who thinks that “there’s no advantage to being nice and thoughtful and caring” to a nice, thoughtful, caring guy. Review: How Amazon’s Kate Beckinsale Series, “The Widow,” and Netflix’s New Ricky Gervais Show, “After Life,” Get Grief All Wrong 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z With much the same feeling, I sometimes look at some trifling, inconspicuous ornamentation, at the flowers on the wallpaper in a dark corner of a corridor, which, perhaps, no one but me will notice. Man and Things 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The postmodernism of the 1970s, with its coy appropriations from the past, struck him as trifling and academic. The Art of Being Critical: Robert Hughes (1938-2012) 2012-08-07T22:19:53Z Are you going to let a trifling matter such as your fear of permanent injury or an arrest for grievous bodily harm stop you winning the ratings war with Strictly? 'lf I had a gun, I'd shoot her': how violence could save The X Factor 2012-10-11T17:11:01Z Even the most trifling of them are amazing, right? Me Too founder on her healing memoir and creating change: "All of us contribute to rape culture" 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It devolves into clichéd “I can’t let you do that” confrontations on its way to a trifling punch line. Review: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox,’ Netflix’s Surprise Release, Unleashes Chaos 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Of the newcomers, only Teeter Target's finely balanced seesaw-based pinball antics offer any kind of engagement beyond trifling novelty value. This week's new games 2011-07-08T23:08:24Z That trifling shortcoming was offset by the on-site food truck, which provided coffee and fresh scones each morning. In Key Largo, fin-to-fin with the denizens of Florida’s revitalized coral barrier reef 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z There are essayists who can take the most arcane or trifling subjects and make them enthralling. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z He's the epitome of a good egg – brilliantly sweary and as enthusiastic as a spaniel – but soon comes up against trifling matters like not having a banking licence or any prospect of getting one. TV highlights 12/07/2012 2012-07-11T18:59:01Z “We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that pays it is lost!” U.S. refusal to negotiate ransoms may be risky Acting that is merely serviceable saps zest from a second, sci-fi-flavored plotline, and a third registers as dull and trifling in its critical early moments. In the life-without-death play ‘A Bid to Save the World,’ oranges are the new black 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z It’s just a movie with no particular reason for existing, a flashy, trifling throwaway whose surface cleverness masks a self-infatuated credulity. 10 Classic Christmas Movies That Our Critics Didn’t See Coming 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The show reminds regular folks that seemingly privileged people are, despite their wealth or beauty, flawed human beings who often reject each other on trifling grounds and are unable to translate their hopes into realities. The Mating Game 2010-10-22T22:20:00Z He is trifling with us, and this show of lo-cal ideas and casual gestures may be full of stuff, but is lacking substance. Fabrice Hyber: but is it fruit? 2013-03-26T18:30:10Z In every piece, these dynamic, fearless performers eventually broke into frenzied episodes that sounded anything but trifling. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z My response to the letter was part of a behavioural pattern: an obsessive compulsion to worry about the most trifling of day‑to‑day challenges. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z It can also leave us vulnerable to a world of trifling slights. A Portrait of My Ego as a Big Black Dog 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z To everyone else, it landed somewhere between a trifling annoyance and an unconscionable invasion. 20 epic fails from the history of pop culture 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Even the envious, self-righteous furies on the Web couldn’t turn his trifling infractions into crimes. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z Still, this is trifling compared with a more troubling phenomenon: the ubiquity of the word Kindle. Why too many Es is bad for us but great for Amazon 2012-06-08T10:00:02Z Nearly every critic and music-industry professional I know routinely decries the Grammys as trifling, an arbiter of nothing: they are too white, too docile, too choked by genre, too long, too loyal to outmoded tropes. The 2017 Grammys Have No Answers 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z The men fought over such trifling issues as the speed of a steamboat. A mini-tour of Washington sights you’ve probably never noticed 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z For a lot of people, they will never graduate beyond; magic is a distraction, magic is a trifling matter, it is not important, it is not a form of self expression. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z And the trifling "Close Your Eyes" suggests Allen fishing for a formula single. Lily Allen returns with anti-diva pop 2014-05-02T19:38:00Z Despite the offbeat premise, it's a little trifling. This week's new films 2011-01-08T00:06:09Z The distance may be trifling, but the new facility, opening Thursday, is a world away from the old-school surroundings of the original spa. Fashion Sales and Events, Week of Jan. 26 2012-01-25T20:52:01Z He took heed of this sign from above and, putting the trifling matter of technical requirements to one side, went ahead with his vision of musicians in the skies. Helicopter opera set for take off 2012-08-17T16:48:16Z Think the Smiths, and you might picture introverted students with far too much time to spend moping over trifling woes. In praise of ? Johnny Marr 2010-12-03T00:05:00Z There is a sense that he is not trifling with anything, not with his time or ours. New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z Carry the dream on for yourself; lift it out of the trifling guise of a prizefight celebration and supply the social and economic details and you have the secret dynamics of proletarian aspiration ... 'At the Fights': a heavyweight collection of American writers on boxing 2011-05-11T21:03:09Z The cost to find these answers, even in the near term, is relatively trifling. Here’s How to Bring Mars Down to Earth: Let NASA Do What NASA Does Best 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z That decision said that employers need not accommodate workers if the effort imposed more than a trifling, or “de minimis,” burden on their businesses. Supreme Court Sides With Postal Carrier Who Refused to Work on Sabbath 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z I tore through the pages, flipping over postcards, glancing at itemized invoices for construction projects, gleefully — and guiltily — poking my way through decades of a single family’s triflings. Skip the souvenir shop and scour an estate sale Still, Dr. Huthifa Alissawi, 40, an imam and mosque leader, says such tensions are trifling compared with what his congregation lived through. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But those figures will be trifling compared with the costs of reconstruction, estimated already at $1 trillion, let alone of eventual Ukrainian membership in the union. The E.U. Offered to Embrace Ukraine, but Now What? 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z But that seemed a trifling detail amid the pressure to adapt to a swiftly changing global economy. Why Chinese Companies Are Investing Billions in Mexico 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The neat-mown Pebble Beach Golf Links is a trifling backdrop to the clouting storm waves, which have made the beach look like the dragon has taken jagged-toothed bites out of it. Perspective | On California’s coast, humans ride out nature’s rage 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Mars has a trifling atmosphere, about 1 percent as dense as Earth’s, so the storms there don’t howl. In a first, hear a Mars rover get hit by a 387-foot dust devil 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z But by the time those billions of dollars are divided among states and localities, using formulas partially based on population, what trickles down to hard-hit places like Pamlico County can be a trifling sum. In rural America, deadly costs of opioids outweigh the dollars tagged to address them 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Appropriately enough, their sound harks back to the staccato, stuttering beats of 1990s girls bands like TLC and Destiny's Child, complete with lyrics chastising any "trifling good-for-nothing type of brother". Girl band Flo win the Brits rising star award 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The trifling way it dismissed employees was akin to breaking up with someone over a text message. Advice | Elon Musk just showed us how not to fire people 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z A trifling example, but I remember seeing a brawl break out in a crowded pool room. Perspective | A 23-foot painting in Boston may be art’s truest depiction of battle "We don't view arms sales as a trifling matter, and we have back-up plans," he added, without elaborating. Taiwan says it cannot afford new U.S. anti-submarine helicopters 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Nowadays, she has no trouble with used clothes and her pursuit of bargains and scrimping on the most trifling costs borders on the obsessive. Hope fizzles for Japan's 'revenge spending' splurge as inflation looms 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z The result would be a radically new federal currency, an ever-stronger industrial economy, and an economic transformation that made the Market Revolution of Andrew Jackson’s day look trifling. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z A university that provides a trifling amount of financial support compared with its conference counterparts could significantly enhance its commitment. Recent trouble can't diminish Martin Jarmond's rosy outlook for UCLA sports 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z For witnessing our every trifling and gross failure, for being better than we are at cooking, spreadsheets and password management in front of our kids. Opinion | This Thanksgiving, Please Pass the Forgiveness 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Parker Brothers bought it from Magie for a trifling sum without royalties, promptly securing a monopoly on the game that became Monopoly. Review | How the self-serving attitudes of the 9.9 percent perpetuate inequality 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Rainfall this trifling is not enough to sustain green patches of reeds, grasses and shrubs that feed the grazing animals that early humans may have depended on. A Shifting Climate Gave Humans Many Opportunities to Leave Africa 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z “Blush ye pretended votaries for freedom! ye trifling patriots!” cried John Allen, a Baptist minister from Massachusetts. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z If you dare question why a more diverse candidate wasn’t selected or even considered, you’re usually met with this trifling statement: “We just want to hire the best person for the job.” Perspective | Chaotic search for a new ‘Jeopardy!’ host is a lesson in hidden hiring biases 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The judge said on the one hand, what Mr Bramhall did was calculatedly harmless, since no physical damage beyond the 'transient and trifling' was done. Simon Bramhall: Liver branding surgeon's suspension 'insufficient' 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Or was he trying to demonstrate that the disease was indeed trifling? Opinion | Aliens might be the thing to finally unite us 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Many of these utterances, such as about golf or his wealth or whether it snowed at one of his rallies, sound relatively trifling. Who truly was the most dishonest president? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Within tennis lie long-lamented issues about stars getting better treatment and the questions of competitive imbalance because of practice privileges, nowadays trifling. Perspective | Australia has opened its doors to the world’s best tennis players. Will it pay the price? 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z With the lives of unborn children on the line, Y is trifling. Opinion | The cost of loyalty to Trump grows higher and higher 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The President said get well, we would re-schedule, but of course such trifling things as summits kept intruding on his golf. Golf with the Boss - Golf Digest 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Of course, for the heavily black work force in and around Detroit that can’t retreat to a vacation home, such an inconvenience is trifling by comparison. Gretchen Whitmer Isn’t Backing Down 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z For others, it can feel absurdly trifling as they stay inside — a fight against boredom, binge eating, isolation. 24 Hours in a Pandemic Nation 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z He was regularly thrown into solitary confinement for trifling misdemeanors, things like failing to stand when a prison guard entered his cell. After Exposing Corruption in Russian Courts, He’s Now in Jail Himself 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Where it is treated as a trifling recreation, it is reduced to rutting. Nevada poll puts Bernie way out in front 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z But over the last week, such worries have come to feel almost trifling, as Mississippi’s state prisons have exploded with gang warfare, riots, disorder and killing. ‘A Blood Bath’: 5 Dead as Gang Violence Rocks Mississippi Prisons 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z More critical to Harry and Meghan’s health and welfare, they’ll probably keep their professional royal security, which is no trifling thing. Commentary: Do Harry and Meghan want to have their royal gateau and eat it, too? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z That is no trifling amount in a country where the average wage is about $900 a month. How do Poland’s ruling populists remain so popular? Follow the money. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Those late starts were no trifling matter; last season, they often featured LeBron James’s Los Angeles Lakers and Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors. Analysis | NBA 2019-20 schedule takeaways: Load management for fans, Zion Williamson takeover and more 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Toni knew that for a black girl to love herself was no trifling matter. How Toni Morrison’s words pierced me, as a black Christian female writer 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z At the same time, the amount of mess that humans could make on the moon, compared with the messes we can and do make on Earth, is always going to be absolutely trifling. Interview: The Once and Future Moon 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z However incredulous or trifling the claim, that program may never end. Don’t be fooled by those who argue for uranium subsidies 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z You may see them as feisty but trifling creatures. How surprisingly brainy and amazingly agile squirrels thrive in the wild 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The furore that followed the rapper’s booking is trifling, says Shenoda. Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda on life after Chester Bennington: 'I cope by staying in motion' 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z It overreacted to trifling threats and bumbled into an endless series of distant conflicts, waging war in the name of peace. Review | How the Korean War set the stage for permanent crisis in northeastern Asia 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z In 1998 it was embroiled in another bloody war that cost perhaps 70,000 lives after it invaded Ethiopia over a trifling border dispute. Eritrea, Africa’s most repressive state, begins to open up 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business group, warned the court in a brief backing Starbucks that such a ruling would encourage workers to file lawsuits seeking pay for “trifling absurdities.” Starbucks, others must pay California workers for tasks done after... 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Opponents and some outside analysts say its impact is trifling. House votes to repeal Obama-era tax on some medical devices 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Your consent becomes a trifling detail in a story about you that suddenly belongs to everyone else This is the problem with ex post facto consent being used to justify these sorts of invasions. The dark side of "Plane Bae" and turning strangers into social media content 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z As a crime, art forgery can seem trifling – less a sinister outrage than a half-complete Robin Hood jape that merely robs the rich. How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z All that is left, now, is the trifling matter of some soccer matches. Russia Has Set the World Cup Table. Will Russians Embrace the Party? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Stevens thought the articles were “trifling” and lacked “vigor.” ‘Kill the beast’: The impeachment trial that nearly took down a president 150 years ago 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Hafsteinn Sigurðsson’s film begins as a trifling neighborhood dispute about an overgrown shade tree and ends as a violent tug-of-war with alarmingly high stakes. SIFF 2018: The best of the fest’s first week 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Your consent becomes a trifling detail in a story about you that suddenly belongs to everyone else. The dark side of "Plane Bae" and turning strangers into social media content 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Money has to be part of the calculus now because college debt in the United States is no trifling matter. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The city was once riddled with small apartments and single-family homes that sheltered trifling handfuls of obsolete labourers and their unproductive children, often for decades at a stretch. How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley | Corey Pein 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z At the moment, demand for carbon dioxide as a raw material is a trifling 80m tonnes a year. $15m is available to solve a burning problem 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z But more troubling is that Mr. Trump looked to be trifling with the world’s most serious security threat—a nuclear-armed rogue nation. Trifling With the Nuclear Button 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “Petty” is both the trifling junk and the person who can’t resist dealing in it. Who Doesn’t Love to Be ‘Petty’? 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z She was sold to a judge, a thin, soft-spoken man whose job was to have people executed for trifling offences. Nadia Murad’s tale of captivity with Islamic State 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z It seems a strange, trifling matter for the school to record for posterity. In an era of USC-UCLA pranks, one stood out. Sixty years later, its mystery is solved 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z “This is not a trifling matter. An answer was required and it wasn’t a difficult one: yes or no.” Spanish PM asks senate for powers to dismiss Catalonia's president 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z By contrast, the demands of the Tea Party’s champions, a group of 40-odd congressmen known as the House Freedom Caucus, were trifling and self-defeating. Fiscal conservatism, RIP 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z I hate pretty nonsense, and I hate petty, trifling people. Who Doesn’t Love to Be ‘Petty’? 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z A sitting secretary of state, at odds with his president and blaming the city’s trifling instincts for stoking tensions, is another matter. ‘Petty Nonsense’ of Washington: Tillerson Joins in Thrashing the Capital 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z But that is trifling, set against her three biggest gripes. Hillary Clinton’s book contains a warning to her party 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Both fascinate and disturb, unwelcome reminders of our transient and sometimes trifling status on an unpredictable planet, shudders of mortality. Hurricane versus earthquake: A reporter contemplates natural disasters 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z At the figures currently being discussed, it is nothing so trifling. At P.S.G., Price for Neymar, and Elusive Success, Might Be Worth It 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z In 2015, researchers studying Italy’s experiment concluded that the amount of money refunded by the companies was “trifling.” Considering the Side Effects of Drugmakers’ Money-Back Guarantees 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z That may sound a trifling improvement, but translated across the US an improvement of 2% in fuel economy in all cars and vans would save millions of gallons of fuel and corresponding CO2 emissions. Silver savers: how car colour cuts pollution 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z How trifling and small they seemed now, my formulae and aspirations and plans. ‘I made a statistical game out of dating’: could I crack the formula for love? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Don’t be trifling and stop taking the person’s calls or get angry if he or she asks for the money back. Perspective | Five lessons we can all learn from federal workers who may be facing a furlough 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Its early stirrings are apparent in his letter to Pound: the sentences racing to match in number and variety the collections they describe, the grandiose gestures of self-deprecation, the hyperbolized confession of trifling sins. The Illness and Insight of Robert Lowell 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s the parents’ money to do with what they want, even if it’s to enable a grown woman and what the reader described as her trifling, unemployed boyfriend. Perspective | Family and money: A lesson in accepting what you cannot change 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z This, Mr Potter concluded, was a trifling consideration, though he noted that Jaffa Cakes are more biscuit than cake in several ways. Cake or biscuit? Why Jaffa Cakes excite philosophers - BBC News 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Schumer said he believes that Trump is “trifling with the Constitution,” and as a result, he said he thinks Democrats can make the impending battle over Gorsuch’s nomination into a “Trump referendum.” Schumer’s dilemma: Satisfying the base while protecting his minority 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z He could empathize with the horse-loving file clerk who could no longer afford to go to horse shows, because the trifling sums she earned for writing articles about them had paid for her gas money. John Glenn: a grounded man who soared into space 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Turner pointed at the man’s picture and called him “trifling.” 7-Eleven clerk tried to escape robbery attempt. He was shot in the back — twice. 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z They were victims of a pharmaceutical market failure — “orphans” ignored by drug companies because, the thinking went, tiny groups of patients would lead to trifling sales. High prices make once-neglected ‘orphan’ drugs a booming business 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z But when the famous virus hunter applied for a trifling $1 million for ME research, the NIH turned him down, twice. New study shows chronic fatigue syndrome may have to do with gut microbes 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Even if you consider feats of athleticism to be trifling in the grand scheme of things, there is a chance you still find Ali compelling. Muhammad Ali: What made 'The Greatest' so great? 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Tiny, electorally trifling and obsessed with guns and weed, cherished emblems of its 11,000 members’ freedom, the party has never mattered in national politics. Guns, weed and relevance 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In a country where business and financial services account for about thirty per cent of G.D.P., this is is no trifling matter. The Economic Arguments Against Brexit 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z This is trifling compared with the risks taken by Mr. Erdogan’s critics in Turkey, growing numbers of whom now face imprisonment, and even in Germany, where Mr. Böhmermann awaits trial. ‘There Was a Young Fellow From Ankara . . .’ 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z BIRMINGHAM, England — If not for the trifling matter of Britain potentially abandoning the European Union, Rowan Crozier figures the factory he oversees would already be clattering away with extra urgency. ‘Brexit,’ a Feel-Good Vote That Could Sink Britain’s Economy 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z We absolutely need a moratorium on trifling presidential men for a few decades. Hillary Clinton isn't progressive. She's just the lesser evil in the general election | Kiese Laymon 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The amounts of money involved in CEO pay may be enormous to the eyes of individuals, but they are trifling in corporate terms. Pay dirt 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Maybe Jones reacted to the fact that here he was, sober, getting pinched for revving the engine of his Corvette, a trifling act compared to others on his resume. High stakes for fallen UFC star Jon Jones both inside octagon and out 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The Shu Lien / Silent Wolf love story, in particular, gets reduced to a few bare speeches, which makes it feel trifling by comparison with Crouching Tiger's ageless, aching romance. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny shrinks the original in more ways than one 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z When confronted about how his spending cuts add up to a trifling fraction of the budget deficit, Trump fell back on that hoary magic asterisk: "Waste, fraud and abuse!" Rubio, Cruz Realize They Have a Common Enemy 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The Court of Arbitration for Sport has for decades served as the final arbiter on sports disputes throughout the world, ruling on thousands of cases ranging from trifling to momentous. Skater Challenges Supremacy of Sports’ Highest Court 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Here, too, the end is taken to justify the means; someone else’s anguish comes to seem like a trifling price to pay for the greater cause a documentary claims to serve. How “Making a Murderer” Went Wrong 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z While it is a trifling topic for some, the issue has amused liberals who felt Hawaii-born President Obama had been unfairly attacked by Mr. Trump and other “birthers” who demanded to see his birth certificate. Ted Cruz leads in Iowa as ‘birther’ talk intensifies 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z In 2013 Texas passed several laws to make that harder: it raised the qualifying age of some offences and, in effect, decriminalised relatively trifling ones, such as rowdy behaviour on buses. Arresting developments 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Rather than upholding appropriate standards of honor and dignity, we now inflate trifling slights into allegations of victimization. The big microaggression lie: The real story behind the right’s phony war on political correctness 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z She's too big to be trifled with, and yet here we were, trifling with her. A 900-pound elephant seal shut down Highway 37 because she could 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z A full 23 percent of food workers are paid less than the minimum wage with tipped employees receiving a trifling $2.13 an hour under federal law. The Best Way to Give Thanks? How About a Raise? 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Her father leaned on Scripture — a strategy another former member compared to “fighting fire with fire” — and decided he could not leave his wife over such a trifling threat. At Word of Life Church, an Evolution From Bible Study Group to Secretive Sect 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z And yet as much as Girardi knows, he reveals little, fencing away even the most trifling queries made by members of the news media. Joe Girardi, Always Pushing for an Edge, at Times Goes Too Hard 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z And what would become of my mornings in my little corner and my late nights scanning the TV channels, watching my crime shows, not a trifling thing? Patti Smith: 'It's not so easy writing about nothing' 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The kickoff coverage team even practiced the trifling detail of timing their steps before the ball left the tee. Al Bagnoli Is Building From the Bottom at Columbia 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Eichhorst sees Palmer’s plea as a trifling matter of the heart, which is never a priority for the Master. 'The Strain' recap: Sniper (mis)fire in 'The Assassin' 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z For that trifling sum, you get to sway the direction of Labour’s future, and, if enough of you sign up—many minds with but a single thought—the outcome will be anything but a trifle. Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, and the Challenge for British Politics 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z After all, this isn't some trifling tournament at a school gymnasium. Valve’s $18 million Dota 2 tournament delayed by DDoS attack 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z A better cup of coffee was no trifling matter. Vincent Marotta, Mr. Coffee Mogul, Dead At 91 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z But when the famous virus hunter applied for a trifling $1 million for ME research, the NIH turned him down, twice. I’m disabled. Can NIH spare a few dimes? 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z It seems trifling, but it's a chasm Several deep thinkers – including Mutai – have already considered what such a race could achieve. Fast times: what will it take to run the marathon in under two hours? 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z His defense of Israel Hayom’s supremacy in print is trifling compared with his growing power to control greater Israel’s airwaves. Netanyahu Plays the Media 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z These, though, are not trifling, because second, third and fourth in this league opens up the riches of Champions League participation, and with it close to $100 million a club. Manchester City Shows Life While Arsenal and United Lack Passion 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z And they make the few remaining prohibitions against coordination between these “independent” groups and campaigns look trifling, if not absurd. The Next Era of Campaign-Finance Craziness Is Already Underway 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z It seemed almost obscene to buy something so trifling as shoelaces in this gigantic box. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Passage Through America 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z But it was no trifling matter for the early starters, a group that included Jason Bohn and the former No. 1 player Lee Westwood. Practicing in the Dark, Some Early Starters Grumble at the Honda Classic 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Withrow pled guilty to his traffic crimes but was trying to get the crimes reclassified as “trifling” due to the unusual circumstances, so that they would carry a lighter punishment. Chainsaw-Injured, Gin-Swilling Australian Loses DUI Appeal 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z He was challenging an earlier ruling by a lower court that refused to consider the matter "trifling". Chainsaw drink-driver loses appeal 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Others found it most galling that, as one put it, “the president of a trifling country like Argentina” would make the crack while in China asking for money. Cristina Kirchner’s Twitter Misadventure in China 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Yet no matter what the technicalities, Amazon and Luxembourg may both be embarrassed that Amazon’s effective tax rate is reportedly a trifling 4-6%. Tax Hater Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deal Attacked As Illegal 2013-10-30T04:00:00Z Russia might seem like a trifling thing in the world economy to most Americans. Dangers of poking the bear 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Generally, section 43 exempts from criminal sanction only minor corrective force of a transitory and trifling nature. Can I Cross The Border With A Criminal Record? 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The people will be entrusting to the victors their fates and their children’s future — no trifling matters. America’s political pendulum swings to the right It is hair that asks you not to take it seriously and, simultaneously, it manages to be hair which implies there are more pressing concerns in this world than trifling matters of follicular vanity. Boris Johnson: ‘Do you want me to be photographed in my Bullingdon Club uniform? With a spliff? Now you’re talking’ 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z You either react to notifications immediately, no matter how trifling, or you start to feel irritated when they have to be repeated. The greatest myth about phones is that you are in control 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The estate valued Jackson’s name and likeness at a trifling $2,105, whereas the IRS contends they were worth $434 million. IRS: We Made A Mistake Valuing Michael Jackson's Estate 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z On the other hand, squelching subpoenas and directing investigators away from groups with powerful political connections—if that’s what happened—isn’t a trifling matter. Cuomo vs. Bharara: Battle of the Heavyweights 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z And it is the latest European rule feeding into a narrative of Brussels’s meddling in trifling affairs, like how restaurants serve olive oil. Ready to Fight for a Drink That Tastes Like a Slap in the Face 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Now, that’s not to suggest that wrecking a computer is a trifling offense. The Haggler: A Crack in the Laptop’s Screen (and in Customer Service) 2014-04-12T16:10:47Z These 256,000 clues amount to an astounding historical record of our textbooks, our news and even our most trifling entertainment. Justin Bieber Versus Albert Einstein and Other Great Jeopardy! Matchups 2014-04-01T10:00:03Z Under a new law, no business is too trifling to reveal to U.S. regulators. Under new law, companies disclosing even tiniest dealings with Iran 2013-12-05T02:13:04Z And the people that threaten, imprison or kill Iranian cartoonists, naked Egyptian bloggers or Burmese stand-up comedians certainly don't think that cheekiness is a trifling matter. Is cheekiness a truly British concept? 2013-10-16T00:10:43Z The Iranians might have dismissed an American strike on Syria as something the U.S. was willing to do to the weak, trifling Syrians, but would never dare with mighty Iran. America, Syria and the World 2013-09-16T10:12:45Z Of course, the 49ers made the Super Bowl once Smith was sidelined, but I will not allow those type of trifling details to derail my prognosticating genius. Couch Slouch NFL Teams of Destiny: Dallas Cowboys and Kansas City Chiefs 2013-09-01T19:22:27Z "But even a trifling difference multiplied a million times is big," he says. Microbleeding in Brain May Be Behind Senior Moments 2013-05-28T22:25:00Z Was it that library book you lent to that trifling roommate who didn’t return it? Obama Talks Race, Fatherhood and Responsibility at Morehouse Commencement 2013-05-19T21:50:30Z Such things are trifling, though, when measured against the stoicism of Henry in the face of such adversity. Saracens' Will Fraser driven to succeed by brother's beach accident 2013-04-05T21:00:01Z Plus if they win today, they will be just one teensy, teeny, toy, trifling, trivial point off second place. Premier League: Manchester City v Chelsea - live! 2013-02-24T12:47:00Z These were trifling matters, but you felt affronted. 'Drug turf' row murderers jailed 2013-01-11T13:21:19Z "Instead, it is an odd combination of caution, brazenness and political trifling," writes Mr Mehta. What does the India government reshuffle mean? 2012-10-29T12:53:44Z Yet most US academic postdocs still work long hours for trifling pay and have no clear route into a permanent position. Postdocs: A voice for the voiceless 2012-09-25T18:23:40.220Z But such minute distinctions are secondary to the overriding principle emphasized to referees: to not blow the whistle for offenses deemed trifling. Referee’s Call in Women’s Soccer Semifinal Prompts Debate 2012-08-07T19:21:10Z The law does not concern itself with trifles - and there may be nothing more trifling than a 140-character rant. Tom Daley, Twitter abuse and the law 2012-07-31T13:33:16Z Granted, sending a probe to a star that is more than 4 light years distant is no trifling matter. Living The Interstellar Sci-Fi Future: Next Stop Proxima Centauri? 2012-06-04T08:44:48Z Expressing disgust at a fall in journalistic standards that he said Murdoch helped stoke by fostering a culture of trifling scandal, Evans said reporters needed principles to prevent them getting too close to the powerful. Former editor says Murdoch sowed seeds of hacking scandal 2012-05-18T02:39:11Z However, she decided that the point was too trifling to worry about, and, with a wave of her hand, she left her landlord to tell what story he chose to his wife. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Your consent was given to your father; and I will have no trifling backwards and forwards. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z He generally made light of trifling ailments, but was most energetic when aroused by any appearance of danger. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z There were some trifling difficulties, some slight delays. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Perhaps you have forgotten it, for I hear that great acts are so common to the Count de Morseiul that he is likely not to recollect what was to him a trifling event. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z Her honour there, secure from stain, She held all farther trifling vain; No more affected to be coy, But rush’d, licentious, on the joy. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z In the first place, the run was but a trifling affair, as far as I can learn--not worth five hundred pounds. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z Similar phenomena meet the natural inquirer in all paths and in the most trifling matters. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z "But that's a trifling affair—a very small camp, compared with what this would be." Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Your pardon, madam," replied the Count, "I have never forgotten the adventure either; but I did not expect that you would have remembered so trifling a service. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z After much deliberation I have decided upon suffering the entire number, with a few trifling exceptions, to appear. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z I will do all that I can to make her yield--I will, indeed--I will insist--I will----" "Sir Robert Croyland," said Mr. Radford, sternly and slowly, "I will have no more trifling. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z It seems to you a trifling matter to look at a picture and understand its perspective. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z The trifling aid that a young mother needs in rearing a beloved child Enid might be sure of obtaining; but the source of supply for a husband's selfish extravagance had run dry. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Under existing conditions the first claim upon it may be said to be for the sustenance of live stock, as the domestic consumption in the region of the flow is comparatively trifling. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z It is the one which I always adopt, and I have never yet, except in one trifling instance, received a kick from a fallen horse. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z Some trifling thing had been missed in the house, and she had been accused of stealing it. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z How or when it was done I could not remember, but it was too trifling to be attended to by the surgeon, so I dressed it myself. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z Mrs. Thompson was trifling with her supper—only pretending to eat. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Give the girl a trifling daily task at four or five years of age, merely for the sake of discipline. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z I mean to say that something else might have happened that would have led to the same disaster—something quite trifling, such as a husband coming in late and slamming the door. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z These little fracas, although trifling in themselves, sufficiently show that the natives are an extremely independent race, and are quite ready for a fight upon the smallest provocation. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z It receives a positively trifling fraction of the total output of sunheat. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z On the whole the people are honest, at least with the exception of the many trifling pilferings always to be expected amongst the servants. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z It is not a trifling matter for the parents to converse together an hour at evening and there plan as to the future home instruction of their young. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z They are so small and look so trifling and dull; but yours are bright and sizable and so charmingly changeable, Mr. Bombs.” The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z The loot obtained by the soldiers was generally of the most trifling description. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z A shower is the result, usually a trifling one and mostly without thunder. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Infinite learned trifling has been wasted in imagining derivations for these appellations. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z The timber was indeed large, and its value, when it reached the market, considerable; but the cost of preparing it and transporting it so far left but a trifling return to the owner. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z They returned and reported that “the fire was a trifling affair.” The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z Strangely enough, there were no wounds of a trifling nature. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z I will, therefore, delay my journey for a day or two; but you must use all speed, and I must have no trifling. Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:35.290Z It was a simple and trifling thing in itself, but it set her thinking. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z The business regularly appointed for this morning's discussion by the States was a mere trifling matter of some petty impost. Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:29.713Z But, by the other system, the trifling addition to the cost of articles of general consumption would be little felt, and after a time, would be generally acquiesced in. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z He who leaves himself in God’s hand will one day declare that the pains and sorrows he suffered were trifling in comparison with what he has won from them. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Saul was not merely trifling with the heart and happiness of his child, but he was deliberately sacrificing both to his vile passion. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z I beg you will tell me every particular about him, and every detail, no matter how trifling; it will be a comfort to me to hear of him once more. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z There must be an end of trifling with him now. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z The walls appear a trifling object when the mind is inflamed. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z "Well, it's an awfully dangerous thing to do, let it relate to ever so trifling a cause," observed Henry. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z To be kept from wandering into unblest ways, kept from trifling with temptation, and dallying with sin is an infinite blessing. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The means of obtaining money seemed to him all honourable if they led him not to Tyburn; and, at length, he would fight with or for any man for a very trifling consideration. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z He was too noble to be trifling, or petty, or self-indulgent. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Is it any thing short of insanity to suppose that such dreadful consequences would follow so trifling an offence? A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z But these are trifling matters in no way interfering with the genuine brotherliness and good feeling in which we all live together in this favoured land.' Christmas Tree Land 2012-04-06T02:00:25.787Z The malignant spirits are propitiated by offerings of burnt paper inscribed with prayers, of bundles of sweet-scented wood, and of other articles of trifling value; the good spirits are mostly neglected. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Almost the entire day was occupied in discussing this trifling affair, when such momentous questions asked the attention of Congress. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z Nor were there any means of supplying them, so that the accession of strength was comparatively trifling. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z The smallest deviation of his chosen people in the performance of some trifling ceremony, would at times call down the most horrid chastisements on both the innocent and the guilty. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z In old times the natives had so few subjects for conversation that they made the most of what they had, which accounts for their verbosity in trifling matters. Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 2012-04-05T02:00:37.337Z On removing the panelling, we found that the depth of the chink was comparatively trifling, and the key was soon seen shining among the dust. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Had he indeed to this slight, trifling, deceitful nature surrendered himself body and soul as a slave? The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z At his farm in Natick, Massachusetts, Mr. Baker is fond of burlesquing the national propensity to convert every trifling celebration into a banner-and-brass-band pageant. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z So much has been written on the subject of the naval “cat”—a punishment once dealt out for most trifling offences, and not abolished yet, that the writer has some diffidence in approaching the subject. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z And when he found he could not do so, because of the trifling obstacle that her husband was alive, he sought a chance to put Captain Maurice St. Leger Farmer out of the road. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The dangers to which myself and three of the coastguard were exposed on that occasion were not, I assure you, trifling.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z A little, trifling slip of Percivale's tongue, dwelt in his memory in a manner altogether disproportionate. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z He dwelt upon the preposterous importance they attached to trifling details of dress and ceremonial. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z With trifling exceptions, the programme was as follows. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z They pretend that upon some little concessions, some trifling condescendencies, England would make peace with Holland separately. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z A trifling digression may be allowed here, as it really bears on our subject. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The most trifling offences were punished with death; the victim was led to a tree, and instantly shot through the head. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z In all ordinary, incipient or trifling ailments they necessarily became skillful, and for many years kept their families in health with active and vigorous bodies, clear brains and goodly countenances. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The few “old tubs” of vessels still in the service are rarely employed beyond trifling harbour duties, or are kept for emergencies on foreign stations. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z And to think that years ago this sudden outbreak of archiepiscopal brilliancy would have been inveighed against as trifling with the "Scarlet Lady." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 2012-04-02T02:00:24.930Z While negotiations were going on for peace next year, the Dutch, believing Charles to be trifling, despatched De Ruyter to the Thames. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z These bold Northmen ventured in vessels which now-a-days would be regarded as unsuitable for the most trifling sea voyages. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Many things are strange about this literary and domestic companionship; this comparatively trifling fact seems to me not the least strange. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Every trifling omission may be magnified into a grave offence. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z He noticed a trifling change in the hall, asked a question or two about his uncle's state, and inquired what had caused his sudden illness. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Notice also all sorts of trifling incidents which prove the writer was a dweller at Venice, and moved about among the Italian States. William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground 2012-03-29T02:00:13.153Z They exchanged courtesies, and provided them with a trifling supply of rye bread and smoked fowls, then sailing away on their own affairs. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Now, this was a small and trifling affair; but just see how significant and characteristic it was! Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Their arguments proceed upon the trifling nature of the results produced by imitations, as unworthy the dignity of an art so refined. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z He was trifling away his life, picking stray finds from the dust-heap of the past, making no man wiser and no man better, doing nothing for any one! The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z This may be a trifling thing, but it means a great deal. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z The men were in good health and spirits, and, except a few trifling cases of snow blindness, there were no casualties to report. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z In such a case the work is performed on the filament, and the gas is little concerned; the improvement, therefore, would be but trifling. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z Had they, we should have heard nothing like an imputation of an unsuccessful imitation of trifling originals. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z He did not stay to dispute about words, about nice distinctions, about trifling forms. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z This last craze may well be regarded as a compound of scientific trifling and theological, moonshine. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z It is indeed scarcely possible to conceive the degree of hindrance occasioned by this impediment, trifling as it always appears before it is encountered. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Some trifling alterations have been made in the interior, but externally it has remained for over three score years the same. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z Between these two editions they reckon about two thousand variations, the most of which, however, are trifling. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z Among the garrison, only five men had been wounded, while the cautious enemy had suffered but trifling loss. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z We have but a trifling proportion in number of the ancient records regarding Jesus. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Perhaps our adversaries will make the trifling reply, that the Church, as yet too feeble, was not in a state to display all its powers. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z You never could get home on that trifling donkey before it overtakes us; and they'll be worried about you. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z A trifling exaggeration it may be, but human and pardonable. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z Most of the people in the crowd were students and pensioners, for whom $10 is no trifling sum. Russia: Did Paid Demonstrators Attend Political Rallies? 2012-03-21T11:10:00Z A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z They were seen, for the most trifling temporal interest, shut the churches, and suspend the administration of the sacraments. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z In scene second, Parson Adams being in need of a trifling loan, goes to see his counter parson Trulliber, who was noted, among other things, for his fat hogs. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The injury they do to flowers is comparatively trifling; though, like the Guinea-fowl, they are great eaters of buds, cutting them out cleanly from the axillae of leaves. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z These facts came to the knowledge of the police, owing to Pellet having been taken before the Correctional Police for a trifling offense, when he appealed against the punishment of confinement for five days. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Hitherto you have heedlessly toyed with Edmund's love, and have met with sportive homage and mere trifling in return. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z The mystery of his birth was the shadow continually haunting Vavasour's path, and making him thoughtless and trifling towards women. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z I do not imagine," he says, "that any one, not even if he were a comic poet, would now say that I am trifling.... The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z How trifling and evanescent the differences of earthly rank appear, in view of these sublime realities. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Wearing apparel, covered with blood, and a number of trifling articles were found on them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z An afternoon in June could not be more summer-like, and this, to a lover of soft climate, is no trifling pleasure. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z I am willing to believe, Miss Neville, it is as you say; but there must be no more trifling or prevarication, matters have become too serious for that. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z I don't take much, but it must be just so; I can't put up with even a trifling deficiency. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z In the earliest forms of propagation, the younger organism is a true copy of that from which it springs, the trifling differences being due, as Schmankewicz has shown, to outer influences. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Looking on the future in this light, it appears to us of trifling moment whether M. Leclerc or M. Sue carry the Paris election. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The long duration of an apparently trifling indisposition he considers as especially characteristic. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z They were resolutions that a trifling temptation, an hour's neglect or a cross word, might have overcome. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z I need not tax my memory or my invention about the trifling though happy events of that day. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z When I am trifling in the Gallery my heart is in the greenwood. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z I made some trifling answer; and returning to my own domain, with all the pangs of loneliness added to those of terror, sat down in the dingy, dreary taskroom and abandoned myself to bitter forebodings. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z Thus contracted, small-pox was shorn of a great part of its terrors; the eruption was usually trifling in amount, and in every way the disease was mild as a rule. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z What matter a trifling loss of countenance as he passed by the coach-office, or a burning sensation down the spine when those whom he had left tittered behind him? Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The taste, however, for this sort of laborious trifling has almost passed away; nor do we propose to re-open the subject of cabalistic lettering. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z He pushed past the table at which Charles and the Comte de Rochefoucauld had been playing primero, and at which the latter still sat, trifling idly with the cards. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z But, unless I am in error, when you last left office advantage was taken of some"--he paused, and then with an easy motion of his white hands--"some trifling indiscretion. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z Often the protection is absolute; as a rule, it is very nearly so; in rare instances it is trifling. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z "I, too, am in no mood for trifling, Captain Clyne," he said. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z "Miss Emily, let me explain," he exclaimed, filled with shame, surprised, yet pleased, to think she should take so trifling a matter so seriously. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z He recovered himself, it is true, almost immediately; and turning his back to us, continued to talk to the persons round him on such trifling subjects as commonly engaged him. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z It was M. Maelzel who undertook the arrangement of the two concerts above-mentioned, and as this was no trifling job, Beethoven relinquished it to him without suspicion, occupied at home meanwhile with his composition. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z The eruptive lesions are scanty and productive of but trifling subjective sensations. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z But I do not hold this matter trifling. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z It is a judge's first duty never to pronounce sentence, in the most trifling case, without hearing. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Not one good reason could he give Luella for putting off attending to his soul's salvation and trifling away his day of grace. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z A trifling circumstance," said Baptiste to himself; "but the lightest trifles show best the direction of the wind. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z When the vital processes are greatly impaired by the primary disease, the onset of the parotitis, trifling in itself, may prove sufficient to determine a fatal result. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Could he be expected to surrender his life to spare her a little fright, a trifling inconvenience, an inconsiderable risk? Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The department charges a trifling commission for the order—say 3d for �2. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z He had succeeded in raising their curiosity, and so gained some trifling respite at least for himself. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The trifling fault is often the germ of terrible crimes. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z The records of every epidemic present instances of sudden death from cardiac syncope following trifling exertions. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z In the violence of his resentment he took Mrs. Howe, hurried her to St. Johns, and sold her for a trifling sum to a French gentleman, named Saccapee. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z So dreadful an Example should make People cautious of giving or applying Medicines inconsiderately, even in such Diseases, as appear but trifling in themselves. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z The money's ready and waiting for you—just as soon as we can settle a few trifling formalities. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The trifling fault is often the germ of terrible crimes. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z The most characteristic feature of these cases is the tedious convalescence from an apparently trifling form of the malady. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Had this feat, trifling as it may seem, been performed by the wife of some Roman dignitary, she would have been apotheosized and her biography inserted in Lempriere's Classical Dictionary. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z It is meer trifling to attempt preventing the Returns with smaller Doses. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z You haven't told me yet what those few 'trifling formalities' are. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z A man remarkable for his bad memory fell from a considerable height upon his head; ever after he could recollect the most trifling circumstance. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Yet the contrasts are neither slight nor unimportant; and the most striking and significant is the trifling mortality of the European as compared with the Asiatic disease, notwithstanding the grave symptoms present in the former. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Only in this case the vice would be, not intemperance, but cowardice, inability to bear a transient, trifling pain patiently and bravely for the sake of the self as a whole. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z This proceeding is very severe, to lay an execution on my wretched trifling goods when I thought— F. Gam. Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z He lost that, and two or three more, before he yawned again, as if fatigued by such trifling, and pushed a much larger amount into place, as a blind man might, for a final venture. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Their sympathy is often ridiculous, and aroused by the most trifling causes. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z According to Beddoes,39 the mortality from measles is, beyond all comparison, greatest in the second year of life, and by the tenth has become quite trifling. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Everything had gone smoothly, save for trifling squabbles among the natives. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Taken in their literal baldness, these identifications may sound strained,—or trifling. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z But it would have been idle to offer Captain Dove any such trifling sum on account of the price he had set on Sallie. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z He divided these diabolical visitations into possessions, obsessions, and circumsessions; the latter being trifling invasions. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In pursuance of this plan, they secretly promised a reward to whoever should deliver up Jesus; and we shall soon find one of his apostles betraying his master for a very trifling sum. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z He clambered up, and the trunk was so long that his trifling weight scarcely depressed its end. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Attention to this apparently trifling matter, will save an infinite amount of trouble in connecting up, repairing, or adding on fresh branch circuits. Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men 2012-03-06T03:00:25.273Z But I forget—you admitted that you were but trifling with my affection—take back your pin-cushion! Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z It appears that in many instances the most trifling circumstance has driven these reckless beings to the commission of this desperate action. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The secret of his retreat was divulged; and, as misfortune sometimes turns to good, this trifling duplicity gave him an opportunity of performing a miracle among the Gentiles. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z The top ranking is no trifling achievement at any age. McIlroy Has a Second Chance to Move to No. 1 2012-03-04T03:09:26Z There can be nothing more exasperating to a man than to loose his horse in a trifling accident, when he has a first-rate place at the beginning of a run. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z He was such a practical old fellow that Ralph wondered at his taking an interest in anything so trifling as circus excitement. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The education of females tends in a great measure to increase that susceptibility to trifling excitements, which in after-life urges them to the extremes of good or evil. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Jesus had not said who he was; and, as if the act had been very trifling, the person on whom the miracle was performed had not informed himself of the author of it. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z Afterwards, when I thought of them—and I often did think of them and of every trifling incident of that memorable walk—they seemed to me weak and ill-chosen. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z "I think it would be advisable if I went out with a few files and made some further trifling requisition to-morrow." Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z They were in no hurry, but, with grumbling and trifling, finally made ready as they pretended, one boat crowded with every thing both needful and worthless. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Yet Sir Walter Raleigh, or Sir Philip Sidney, might, perchance, have thought even such a trifling peccadillo not un-note-worthy. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z But, great as was the power of this critical show of volunteer strength among us, as a permanent force it was trifling when compared to the present National Guard of France. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z I made some trifling remark and started homewards. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z "I am not sure that they might not consider they invalidated the trifling bequest to the Mission, which with good management should enable us to rescue a few more of the heathen." Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z The moon had just passed its full, no time could be spared for trifling, and Petersen grew uneasy. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z A few days after this trifling adventure, I went, by invitation, to pass a day with my friend the ex-governor, at his beautiful residence a little out of the city. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z When you have once devoted yourself to the study of the soul, all these little distinctions do appear so trifling!... Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z Nobody can pretend that any commodity of which there is an available supply on hand equivalent to the whole demand for fifty or seventy-five years can have any but the most trifling value. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z Little details in a picture may be essential to the effective impression, but Spencer often wearies us with trifling incidents whose narration has no excuse except as happening in a great life. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Silver dishes and chased and curious flagons, flasks of old Rhenish and Burgundy, glass from Nuremberg, a dozen things which made my lady's road equipage seem poor and trifling, appeared on the board. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Byron, in his narrative of the loss of the Wager, describes the brutal conduct of one of these Indians, who actually killed his child for a most trifling offence. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z As they expected to return almost immediately, they left the babe slumbering in its cradle, and sent the servant on some trifling errand. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z This facility of raising useful observations from the most trifling incidents was one of those peculiarities in him which cannot be proposed to our imitation.... Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z It would have created a panic, at a trifling expense, that would have eclipsed any thing in the history of the rebellion. Four Years A Scout and Spy 2012-02-23T03:00:37.640Z The author would apologise for discussing so trifling a circumstance, had not the authorities of the United States considered the fact of sufficient importance to ground a serious argument upon it. The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery 2012-02-22T03:00:27.207Z This beautiful bird bears the name of the late Sir J. Stamford Raffles, to whose exertions the science of Zoology is under no trifling obligation. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Gay and trifling as the metropolis is, with its abundance of out-door amusement, Vienna must be put down in plain words as the most inhospitable capital in Europe. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z But the Pilgrims, who knew on occasion how to smite with the sword, did not put too trifling an estimate upon the value of the little iron man. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z One trifling peccadillo he perhaps forgot to mention. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z “Who’s ripe for a trifling sprint of five miles this afternoon?” asked Uncle Teddy at the dinner table, taking three scones at once from the plate. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z I have never mentioned the state of our sick list, because it was always so trifling. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Then came one of those slight incidents, seemingly trifling at the moment of the occurrence but sometimes changing the entire trend of men and their affairs. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z And don't tell me to mind my own business either, because a great deal of this--this trifling has gone on in my garden, and I feel myself in a measure responsible for the consequences. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z The writers of elegant literature, essays, romances, tales, owed to Transcendentalism but a trifling debt, not worth acknowledging. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z This will immediately allay the smarting pain, and the swelling, except in certain places, as the eye or lip, be trifling. Buzz a Buzz or The Bees 2012-02-18T03:00:15.753Z Two good anchorages were found on the west side, but none on the east, except a trifling cove between the little island and the land, which would only shelter a small vessel. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z A trifling matter—but for a Professor so "acute" such an accent may be considered a "grave" mistake. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-17T03:00:35.863Z This told; and by a little trifling concession on each side, the bargain was closed, the money handed over, and the aspirant to heaven's favour forgiven beforehand for removing 1 layman. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Although this was but a trifling incident, Mr. Burbanks was disturbed by the impertinence of the "ugly beasts." In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The tenants never paid, and the ermine was somewhat mud-stained, but these were trifling details. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z For the last four nights I noticed, that soon after sunset the sky was suddenly overcast, a trifling shower fell, and afterwards the heavens became beautifully clear. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z We are not irritated beyond endurance because in this world where so many virtuous people have a hard time, such trifling fellows as Sir Toby and Sir Andrew have their cakes and ale. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Here I must put in a trifling qualification which does not affect his main position in the least. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Mademoiselle Brunelle, on the other hand, saw in Gabrielle's condition of indifference the stony numbness of a despair which a trifling amount of pressure would lead to the desired denouement. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z And yet he dared not purchase that life at so trifling a cost! Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z After obtaining some trifling assistance from our forge, she sailed. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z To be on a desert island destitute of soap made the common evils of life appear trifling. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Curiously enough, a mechanical invention of the same period was afterwards employed, with a very trifling modification, for the production of the earliest sun-pictures. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z The chancellor had nothing to complain of, for, with a few trifling checks, everything went well enough. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z She had been trifling like some innocent child with burning brands which had scorched her. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z I often witnessed the tenderness with which they tried to quiet the alarms our presence at first occasioned, and the pleasure which they showed when we bestowed upon the little ones any trifling trinkets. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z He was very friendly with us, and a trifling gratuity insured us whatever protection he could give. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Letters passed to and fro along the high-roads upon the most trifling subjects, and a constant correspondence was maintained between the court of the Pharaoh and the most distant parts of Western Asia. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Casting our eyes back to no very distant period, and noticing the small beginnings of our early planters of cotton, the reader will pardon the introduction of a trifling anecdote. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z There's a trifling instalment of the first week's money.' A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z It doesn't seem to me, though, that we ought to mar a play with as trifling a fellow as he is. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z In this sophisticated trifling—this lapidary's mosaic—this pastry-cook's decoration—this child's puzzle of coloured earth, substituted for coloured living flowers—he pushes Art farther than the plain Englishman approves. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Your treatment of the subject is one of trifling. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z "I did not wish to display all my trifling stock of accomplishments at once," said I, with a smile. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z The theatre was the vestibule of perdition, actors the servants of Satan, and Shakespeare a trifling wretch whose words were seeds of death. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'id�e fixe,' which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z Another man, to whom I complained of some trifling discomfort, said it was probably U.A. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z “What a trifling difference must often determine which shall survive and which perish!” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z He told me that the hero of my dreams was merely trifling with my feelings, and amusing himself at the expense of my credulity—in short, that he was no better than a libertine. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z For days there was nothing to choose between the vessels, save that the unusual strength of the trades gave the Star a trifling advantage. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z While the loss from glaciers and ice caps certainly isn’t trifling, over the same time period, Antarctica and Greenland and their peripheral glaciers and ice caps lost about 385 billion tons of ice annually. Green Blog: From 2 Satellites, the Big Picture on Ice Melt 2012-02-08T20:48:34Z During dinner he often turned towards her and asked her to do him some trifling service—to hand something, or pour out something. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z At Bristol they made a pause, and Danby, finding he could get trifling sums for water-colour drawings, remained there working diligently and sending to the London exhibitions pictures of importance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Mr. Peale's collection deserves precedence above all the public museums in the United States, for its more scientific arrangement, and because fewer trifling nicknacks have been admitted into it. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z No circumstance, remarks Mr. Parton, was too trifling to engage him upon a series of experiments. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z The kind of life, therefore, that might have been thought too trifling to bear the weight of his grave and powerful scrutiny was exactly the life that he pursued for its expressive value. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Mr. Barrell was particularly struck with what Cook relates of the abundance of valuable furs offered by the natives of the country in exchange for beads, knives, and other trifling commodities valued by them. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Calderon is said to have written the trifling number of seventy-two, and Lope de Vega, whose fingers must have been tipped with pens, some four hundred. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Toil had at last granted him success, toil and good luck; and success had immediately given him the right to emancipation from financial trifling. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z A trifling incident revealed to an Italian savant the fact that when two metals and the leg of a frog came into contact the muscles of the leg contracted. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z If his object is to damage property, the results are trifling when compared with his efforts. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Then, one morning, he was writing a letter at her dictation and by oversight he spelt disappointment with one p, a trifling error which, as I knew, any gentleman or scholar was liable to. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z So I proposed to make this trifling trip alone. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z And so perish castles and reputations—the masonry of the human hand, and the fabrics of human thought—not by the strength which they feared, but by the weakness of trifling things which they despised. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z These inferior editions continued, till very lately, to be occasionally reprinted for the use of the common people, and at the trifling expense of a very few sous. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z Your most noble lord and master lent me a trifling sum the other day, but very trifling. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z I have not told you yet—I have not had time—that I met Rejeb on my way here, and was able to do him a trifling service. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z "But the loss is trifling," said I, "and I have kept my horse." The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z However, he forebore to inquire, and instead: 'Colonel,' said he, 'you professed last night that you were under some trifling obligation to me.' Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z It was many hours afterwards when Millicent opened it, and, compared with the heavy tidings she had by the same post received, it seemed utterly trifling and unimportant. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z A trifling defect in the machinery of a P. and O. boat began it. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z As more than one king of the time realized while Innocent was Pope, there could be no trifling with marriage vows. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z The limit is set not by physics, but by trifling engineering problems such as material strength and permeability. Could a Balloon Fly in Outer Space? 2012-01-26T19:45:00.237Z His thoughts had gone back to the little country parsonage and the quiet life with no weightier matter to disturb it than the trifling squabbles of his parish. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z For the future I would get interested only in trifling, unimportant things; no one should ever be more to me than a friend whom I could relinquish; I would merely look on. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z His spirits rose as he walked, his blood warmed to a comfortable glow, and by the time he came to the gates of the house, Cranfield's summons had become a trifling thing. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z What survived of it was still Irish with trifling variations in the spelling of words. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z If we couldn't agree about such a trifling thing as where we are to be married, we should be unsuited to one another, shouldn't we? Love Among the Lions A Matrimonial Experience 2012-01-25T03:00:36.210Z Stolen many years ago, it was subsequently discovered in London by the merest accident, was purchased for a trifling sum, and restored to its bereft signpost. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The locked cabinets held all the relics which remained to her from those few bright weeks in Devon; and the mere touch of any one, however trifling, would have magic to quicken her memories. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z At the same time, a trifling overflow into the hat would be very welcome.... Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z It was a trifling mannerism which nevertheless carried with it a suggestion of vigour and straightforwardness. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z And it was mortifying to see how trifling after all was the danger they incurred. Love Among the Lions A Matrimonial Experience 2012-01-25T03:00:36.210Z He was regarded as an unpromising boy, but a trifling circumstance aroused a passion for reading, and he made great progress in self-education. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z I don't believe there's any man who has ever done a single service for him of the most trifling nature but he would wish to place beyond the reach of poverty. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z "I have been making some little trifling observations which have interested and perplexed me much." Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z Then finding I wasn't wanted in Vancouver I went back into the States, and as usual got into a trifling difficulty there. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z And only a few days ago it had seemed so trifling a thing! The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge Nora's Real Vacation 2012-01-20T03:00:14.427Z So that large estates were sometimes carried off in payment of trifling debts. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Every trifling incident, a ray of sunlight, a flower, a singing bird, a lovely view—all inspired her with a theme for expression, and she had a joy in so expressing herself. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z My dear Sir,—The diagram will do very well, and I will send it shortly to Mr. West to have a few trifling corrections made. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z He also remembered the curious little laugh with which she had clung to him, and that it had stirred him as no trifling favour Grace Coulthurst had ever shown him had done. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Such are the dreadful consequences a trifling error may produce in such a case. L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses 2012-01-19T03:00:20.593Z In the quiet atmosphere of trifling details and petty etiquette of a third-rate German princedom he ended his days. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z What seemed apparently trifling accidents, through horses, led to bad results. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Thine eyes before this trifling labor fall, Canst gaze on him who hath created all? Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z "In fact, there is nothing we can do but try to extort some trifling concession from Slavin before we surrender to-morrow." Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Of course in a general sense man expresses himself only so, and a regular alphabet is but a comparatively trifling advance on the language of signs. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z O Lord, from trifling, dilly-dallying, and procrastination save us now and for ever-more. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z I took it, because I realized that it might have a bearing on the case, and I have learned to discard no clue, however trifling it may appear, until it has been proven valueless. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z The other instrument serves for noting the most trifling differences in the temperature of bodies, or in the rapidity of its changes. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z It was a trifling mishap, but Hetty was overwrought, and when she had climbed back and taken off and emptied the little shoe she sat down on the dusty grass and sobbed bitterly. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z For two years since her parents' death, she had occupied the post of nursery governess in the family of a Mrs. Donaldson, to whom her mother had once shown some trifling kindness. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z The big French brother, heartily disgusted with this dilatory business, this trifling away of so much valuable time, hinted more clearly than ever before that something definite must be done and must be done quickly. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z The latter incident seemed trivial enough, at first sight; yet she reasoned that no one would risk arrest on the score of burglary, to steal anything of such trifling value, without an excellent reason. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Other trifling accusations, such as of poisoning, were brought against this ecclesiastical Prime Minister, and ultimately the British High Commissioner from Fiji had to come down and deport him to New Zealand. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z What a strengthening of the Apostles' faith this must have been: He who could thus foretell all, even the most trifling events, must be God indeed. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z “No, he’s going farther on,” and Tavia wondered why it was so difficult for her to make such a trifling remark. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z Excepting a trifling proportion of wooden ships, the Clyde-built vessels are of iron and steel, the trade having owed its immense expansion to the prompt adoption of this material. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z And it is to be noted in this connection that the difficulties of 1872 were trifling compared to what they would necessarily be in our day. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Your poor father had owed me a trifling debt, and I took you as payment in full, and have kept you with me as my nephew ever since. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z But these are trifling vagaries: it is my own letter, and the writer knows me intimately. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z |
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