| 单词 | piffle |
| 例句 | The piffling toad steps away from her and says, “Non capisco! Ha!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Even a filmmaker who aspires to make the next Day for Night more often than not ends up with self-indulgent bombs like Full Frontal or pleasant piffle like My Week with Marilyn. Hitchcock: To Psycho with Love 2012-11-20T13:00:50Z As things stand right now, though, a moviegoer will get better bang for the buck rewatching "Shazam!" or "Captain Marvel" than seeing this piffle. "Hellboy" needs Guillermo del Toro. 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Pop piffle is ripe for parody, but if it’s the ’80s you intend to lampoon, there are certainly more deserving targets than Ms. Bush. Review: ‘The White Stag Quadrilogy’ Hits the Way Back Machine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z It is easy to forget that in 2009 — Christopher Nolan films aside — most comic book movies were still viewed by many as juvenile piffle, with serious actors taking thinly-written roles for purely financial reasons. Was Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" really that bad? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Babel, his 2006 film on these lines, was bafflingly regarded with saucer-eyed awe at Cannes, despite the fact that it was a tower of tripe, a pillar of piffle and a column of codswallop. Cannes 2010: Hollywood movies bookend a blue-chip lineup 2010-04-15T16:49:00Z And I don’t mean the “she wears what she wants” piffle. For Michelle Obama, Girlie Clothes That Lean In 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z But enthroned at "Today," he also seems game for any manner of piffle. 'Today' host Ann Curry takes hit, counts tomorrows 2012-06-26T20:42:10Z Like its predecessors, "Chinese Puzzle" is overlong and more piffle than work of substance. 'Chinese Puzzle' a buoyant and bittersweet romantic adventure 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z And as faintly amusing and reminiscent of Tommy Lee Jones’ “Men in Black” turn as this might be, there’s no way these two smart guys didn’t see this was piffle on the page. ‘R.I.P.D.’ deserves to get ripped 2013-07-19T18:37:28Z Those two pop extremes – the piffle and the protest – intersected unexpectedly too. The best pop music of 2012: Kitty Empire's choice 2012-12-15T20:00:01Z The World, the current single, finds Auto-Tune piffle hitched unremarkably to clubby builds. Angel: About Time – review 2013-04-13T23:05:05Z For more than two hours, it pelts you with piffle so egregious — not just puns but also dad jokes, double entendres and booby-trapped one-liners — that, forced into submission, you eventually give in. Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z This may seem like a piffling side project to some. At Facebook, Creating Empathy Among Cyberbullying 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z There is even a tiny one – a piffling four million times as massive as the Sun – at the heart of the Milky Way, the galaxy we call home. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z Mr. Miller’s “L’Elisir” is set in 1950s America, removed from what he once called the “pastoral piffle” of its original setting in an early-19th-century Italian village. For New York City Opera Season, Bernstein, Strauss and New Works 2010-03-09T18:29:00Z They may sound like piffle, and perhaps they are, but they were formative. Long live TCM! Our culture would be worse off without movies on TV 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Using typical Johnsonian language, he initially dismissed the claims as an “inverted pyramid of piffle” before other evidence emerged. Boris Johnson blames ‘the herd,’ resigns to make way for new U.K. leader 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z He was also sacked from a post in the Conservative Party after he lied about having an affair, calling the allegations “an inverted pyramid of piffle.” Britain’s Boris Johnson apologizes amid national anger over lockdown BYOB party at his residence 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Past administration GPRs, he added, “typically gush strategic-sounding piffle, exhausting readers with laborious defenses of the status quo. This one at least spared us that.” ‘No decisions, no changes’: Critics pan Pentagon’s strategic posture review 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Johnson called the story “complete balderdash” and “an inverted pyramid of piffle.” Boris Johnson confirms he has six children. This is a big story in Britain. 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z He added that the Conservative “source” represented a “pyramid of piffle.” Boris Johnson breaks tradition by dodging interview with BBC’s top Rottweiler, Andrew Neil 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z If you don’t look closely, or are in a reactive state of mind, it’s easy enough to write off the show as Cold War piffle, even propaganda for a world of bland “normalcy.” Now's the perfect time to watch 'The Mickey Mouse Club' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Morrison’s paternalistic piffle is just one more piece of grotesque bad faith on an issue about which the Liberal record is one of lying, scheming and wrecking at every step for over two decades. Greta Thunberg's 495-word UN speech points us to a future of hope – or despair 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z But I still miss their baby feet, and their patter, and the piffle of childhood. The Lingering of Loss 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Such pseudoscientific piffle is at best harmless folly. Spring Cleaning 2019: Eight things to toss 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z In the middle of the season, that is just a piffle. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s piffle, and it doesn’t have anything to do with any of the things you’re talking about. A 2020 poll! 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps it's too tall an order for such a piffle of a comedy, but “Johnny English Strikes Again” is at odds with itself when it comes to its messaging. Review: 'Johnny English Strikes Again,' quite unnecessarily - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z That, of course, is piffle, and the opposite is true. Winter Olympics 2018: day five from Pyeongchang – live! 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Last November, fellow University of Toronto professor Ira Wells called him “the professor of piffle” – a YouTube star rather than a credible intelectual. How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'? 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Though often dismissed as superstitious piffle, ghosts have proved surprisingly durable. The evolution of the ghost 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Until that serious potential is unleashed, most of the rest just seems like piffle. Opinion | Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z When challenged about the relationship by the Mail on Sunday, Mr Johnson denied everything, calling stories about it an "inverted pyramid of piffle". Boris Johnson: His rise, fall, rise, fall and rise - BBC News 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Yet beneath the piffle, Huffington’s beadily commercial eye has surely spotted something. The key to being a successful woman? Knowing what not to do | Gaby Hinsliff 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z This list of news stories listed as trending is usually fairly mindless piffle. The right’s absurd Facebook freakout: How the uproar over “Trending Topics” exposes its gargantuan victim complex 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In 2012, it dismissed claims that the comet Elenin was on its way to destroy mankind, calling it a “trail of piffling particles”. Nasa says the world is not going to end in September 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Unabashed, he still seizes every opportunity to pompously pontificate piffle on television. The Fed Knew the Economy Was a Disaster in 2009. Here’s What They Talked About Instead. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Set against the possible end of a 307-year union, that might seem a piffling difference. Rise of the ayes 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z This is one of the biggest pieces of piffle in modern political discourse. Terrifying Senate Democrats Vote To Give Political Speech Less Protection Than Pornography 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z But he knows that the wonut will not be novel for long, so he is already working on his next creation: a waffle pizza, which perhaps he should call the “piffle”. Matches made in heaven—and hell 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But through the years we have had players, ex-players and coaches tell us the same piffle about penalty kicks and more times than not it has been met with knowing nods. As Penalty Kick Deciders Loom At 2014 World Cup Here Are The Two Most Ridiculous Myths 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z He did not think much of his efforts, however, describing the song as "piffle". Plaque for war anthem brothers' home 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Yet when brothers and music hall stars George and Felix Powell penned Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag they thought it "piffle" and abandoned it. The woe behind Pack Up Your Troubles 2014-01-31T08:14:10Z The other point, that higher charges for spectrum will lead to higher prices for consumers is just piffle. Raising Spectrum Prices Does Not Increase Airtime Prices To Consumers 2013-10-11T14:19:00Z So comparing valuation to corporation tax is simply piffle from start to finish. Insane Suggestion Of The Day: Let's Boycott Twitter Over Tax Payments 2013-07-09T13:57:00Z He is managerial strong lager, managerial cleavage, an entirely disorientating force, killing the conversation and feeding the Premier League's own worst vices of hungrily consumed celebrified piffle. Only surprise about Mourinho's return is people think it's a good idea 2013-05-03T13:00:01Z By government standards, that sounds like a mere piffle. Sequestration Shovels Money to the Russians 2013-02-27T18:15:04.067Z Never let it be said that the Mill can't count or fill up its word count with mindless piffle and non-football related banter. Football transfer rumours: Radamel Falcao and Luis Suárez to Bayern? 2013-01-29T09:20:10Z What a bunch of complete piffle spoken by a self serving eurocrat interested in elevating his own position in the pecking order of a system of absolute falsity. Viewpoint: Europe must lead global peace drive - Barroso 2012-12-10T09:42:10Z Four draws and eight defeats represent a piffling return from lavish summer investment in transfer fees and wages. Lost spark: why Mark Hughes should never have walked out on Fulham 2012-11-23T16:44:42Z They want £595 to watch the beach volleyball, though the "canoe sprint" is a piffling £295 – for an event you might not watch if it were taking place in your park boating lake. Simon Hoggart's week: An old mugging scam through the wonder of Wi-Fi 2012-06-29T22:03:01Z British MPs sold their reputations for a piffling return—one MP submitted a claim for a hot drink he had bought in the House of Commons tearoom. How to Act Like a Psychopath without Really Trying [Excerpt] 2011-12-09T18:45:00.223Z I believe you're talking the purest piffle; but if there is a trap, and I do walk into it, it'll be to smash it all to pieces. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z "Good Lord!" he added; "you don't mean to say you stuff this piffle into you?" The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Yet, deep down in your heart, you know he was talking piffle. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z “That’s piffle!” he declared on one occasion, when the ground was strewn with tired, panting players. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z The US Reserve's operating balance was more than 40 times greater than some piffling private company. Boot up: LulzSec hacker named, Foxconn 'to replace workers with robots', and more 2011-08-01T07:30:02Z I think the radiant being believed him, for she bought a magazine—a magazine of pretty girls and piffle: just the sort we knew she'd buy. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The properties of Washington, DC, are valued at a piffling $232 billion. China's foreign reserves: Who wants to be a triple trillionaire? 2011-04-14T08:04:51Z Feeling, then, as I do, that there is no such poignant ordeal possible to man as sitting through a tight Harvard-Yale game, any screen story of football seems not only piffling but sacrilegious. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z To hell with such piffling concerns as global supply, we should live fast and die faster. UK must follow Spain down the road to lower speed limits 2011-03-09T16:27:02Z I feel this is going to be better than those piffling little mine-laying trips, and though we shall be away ten days, it will qualify me for four days' leave in Belgium. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z To my pleadings that I was lonely—would she not dine with me at my home?—she responded with ever-ready but piffling excuses and subterfuges. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z This stuff may seem piffling, but it all added to the feel of a Proper World Cup. On Second Thoughts: Italia 90 2010-10-14T10:34:00Z He found those with a lower base level of the hormone tended to prefer immediate payment, even when the sum in question was piffling compared with the promised future compensation. The biology of business: Homo administrans 2010-09-23T10:46:00Z The average odds of the last 10 Lincoln winners is a piffling 11-1 and I defy anyone to get rich at that rate. Claims Five: The trickiest handicaps 2010-06-25T12:35:00Z The new star's salary – piffling, by today's standards – was twice the previous highest paid to an African footballer. From Africa to Portugal to immortality 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z But if you find "piffle" or even "balderdash" more authentic, then be my guest. Mr Punch 2010-03-12T18:20:00Z That is the sort of piffle that is supplied gratis to the newspapers in this country. Victory out of Ruin "Now that you have that piffle off your chest, please go on." The Bachelors A Novel I did my first article for it in an hour when I first woke up this morning—just the smarty-party piffle its readers and advertisers seem to demand. The Book of Susan A Novel No sooner had the words left her lips than she realized they were piffle. H. R. "But this hand and kiss business is piffle." Years of Plenty "I tell you, Ruth, you're his law now; not whatever piffle is in that Room of Silence." The Garden of Eden A lot of piffling rubbish—knockings, rappings, and contemptible nonsense of that sort—but of serious truth, of what we want to know, not one little bit. Tales of South Africa I'm sick of lying and pretending, sick of common little piffling notions of what you consider right and wrong. The "Genius" Some day, when the evolutionary piffle has passed, we'll study out these prehistoric legends and their racial meaning. Through Our Unknown Southwest Later on he heard the poet call Spots 'a piffling Philistine,' but he did not know what it meant and was ashamed to ask. Years of Plenty He went over to Santa Fe to see the governor–a piffling carpet-bagger. The Coming of the Law The pangs of a guilty conscience,' he says, 'are piffle compared with the miseries of a beard. Aliens Why don't you cut out all this piffling holy talk and go in for something you can do? The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country “And to think that I ever talked piffle about not wanting to get married.” The Phantom Lover Such piffle always drives an English audience wild. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Lovelier yet the spiffle In the picture hall; For the picture piffle Is the best of all. A line-o'-verse or two My boasted tolerance, breadth of mind, my readiness to see both sides, my passion for showing up all men as human—this to Joe was utter piffle. The Harbor You know I hate messing my hands with that sort of piffle.' A Great Man A Frolic Am�lie's arguments were piffle or worse to her, and her willingness to undergo "martyrdom" for them was the most arrant pigheadedness, as the martyrdom of alien creeds usually is. In a Little Town Picked up Wallace Kent when he was a piffling, faded juvenile, and taught him to be a good elderly support worth his hundred to any director. Blue-grass and Broadway And if it weren't for your advice, and Molly Winston's conviction that Pat would stick to C. if he were ruined, I shouldn't be playing about with any such piffling policy as I've just outlined. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America It is astonishing how much time you have to do things in that formerly you used to drink in, with the accompaniment of all the piffle that goes with drinking! Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there Read 'em myself over and over again, and find 'em give points in the way of amusement to the piffle Mudie sends out. The Dop Doctor They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel. The Seven Seas "It's got a perfectly ripping, basic, sex-comedy idea that climaxes the third act; the rest is piffle." Blue-grass and Broadway Compared with her calamities, half of which would have been the stock-in-trade of a Greek dramatist wherewith to wring tears from mankind for a couple of thousand years, what were his own piffling grievances? The Rough Road You politely designated them as fools, and what they said you characterised as piffle. Athalie And so he did at first, and I used to cry over the blooming piffle he put into his letters, and wish I'd been a straighter woman, for his sake. The Dop Doctor I dare say, too, I have hurt Duke’s pride by trying to give him a reason for your indifferent attitude, yet never having courage for the real, piffling explanation. Ladies-In-Waiting The dangerous letter-scheme, which lends itself so easily, and in the other parts surrenders itself so helplessly and hopelessly, to mere "piffle" about this and that, is kept well in hand. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 She paused and, in a different tone, went on: “Don’t you think it’s rather rotten to have this piffling argument when I’ve come all this long way to see you?” The Rough Road Has the big money bunch got us down on the mat with our wind shut off and our pockets inside out; or is it just campaign piffle? Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe The deadly seriousness of their piffling, pedantic talk about fine-spun scholastic points that were not interesting nor useful a thousand years ago, and much less now that they are absolutely dead. The Desert Fiddler He might as well have sat by his fire and read a piffling novel. Black Oxen We all felt that it was simply piffle to talk copy-book to one so disappointed as our unfortunate brother. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune She disliked the round vowels formed with such care that they looked piffling, and the elaborately shaded consonants. The Man from the Bitter Roots Rather piffle, I call that part about enjoying the speeches in the British Empire. Lalage's Lovers No heckling social restrictions, no vapid idle piffle at dull teas; no lugubrious pretence of burdensome duties. The Desert Fiddler I want to get to work on my own, and not to sit talk, talk, talking over every miserable, piffling little detail. The Lady of the Basement Flat It's all very well for him to do the romantic and that sort of piffle, by Jove, but when you scrape the paint off he's just a receiver of stolen property and a common agitator. The Highgrader Don't be an old maid, Ern, with your piffling German conscientiousness. The Forbidden Trail It is our purpose to endeavour to make an end of the immoral inspiration behind this profane piffle by speaking out our mind on the subject of war as viewed from the standpoint of ethics. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles But this indulgence in "piffle" has led us away from the main entrance, and we must come back to the floor of the salon in which our reception was being conducted. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel Maybe it's only a piffling pocket, and we'll get souped for our pains. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Oh I see said the Earl but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind. The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan They’ll hold out a month or two, and piffle away at the adit to save appearances. The Gold Trail But she did not intend to write a love story—that was piffle. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story The dear lady who delights in "piffle," and to whom "pifflage" is the very breath of life, had also her niche in our affairs. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel Listen," says Pinckney, "to that superior being, the lordly Briton, utter his usual piffle! Shorty McCabe on the Job Most of it was too piffling and small. The Masques of Ottawa Earthly marriages are piffling in comparison with that ceremony. The Skylark of Space This thing of piffling and monkeying around here's pulling my cork, and for the ten thousand four hundred and sixty seventh time I say let's prowl and prowl now! Spacehounds of IPC "Where did you get that piffle?" chortled Hippy when his laughter had subsided. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers "So far, however, as being able to read the notes of the birds or the growl of a bull pup—piffle!" Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods "It isn't piffle, it's the truth," asserted the Doc. On the Fringe of the Great Fight Each Committee held numerous Meetings, at the Call of the Chairman, and discussed the impeding Festivities with that solemn regard for piffling Detail which marked the Peace Conference at The Hague. Knocking the Neighbors The rest of the article is mere piffle. The Simpkins Plot "For the love of goodness, drop that piffle!" begged Hippy wearily. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers I had a friend in college who used to indulge in the same sort of piffling, but that my uncle's widow and her elderly companion should delight in such absurdities bewildered me. Lady Larkspur "Lot of piffle," he heard Cardillac's voice from a great distance. The Prelude to Adventure As for William Jennings Bryan, of whom so much piffle, pro and con, has been written, the whole of his political philosophy may be reduced to two propositions, neither of which is true. Damn! A Book of Calumny Her quick intelligence surprised me, because I myself was not perfectly sure whether I had emitted piffle or an epigram. Police!!! "Yes, Sahib; this business very piffle," replied the Eurasian without turning his head. Parrot & Co. I'm not thinking of wigs, or paint, or such piffle. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma So we sits through five acts of piffle that was mostly talky junk to me. Wilt Thou Torchy You want to be careful, Mary V—" "Oh, piffle! Skyrider "Well, I never heard more maudlin piffle in my life!" was his frank comment when she had finished. The Moon out of Reach One hoarse raucous piffle and three sharp decisive puffs for your arguments! One Third Off All the rest is talk and piffle—the only way to save is to save. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man He became more witty, more masterful, while the repartee of his adversaries sank to wretched piffle. Bunker Bean "You heard what I said about piffling human beings?" she asked him sweetly. The Lookout Man "Aw, piffle!" he said, half aloud and rather disgustedly, as he stepped out into the sunshine. The Ragged Edge Vivie did remember having glanced very perfunctorily at some effusion in typewriting which had seemed unobjectionable piffle. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement These, and in fact all that comes before the great scene, are entirely superfluous, the purest piffle, very tiresome. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Stuff and rubbish, mush and piffle!" he muttered, closing the book and pushing it from him across the table; "love, as usual, grossly out of proportion to the ensemble. The Younger Set I'd rather be a tree and grow up here and swing my branches in the wind and then burn, than be a little petty, piffling human being—I would! The Lookout Man What museum in its senses would accept such piffling stuff with any stipulations attached? The Mating of Lydia "Do you consider that statement to be pure piffle?" The Common Law "Oh, piffle," grunted Still, "who ever heard of Morgan's School until you put it on the schedule, Tracey?" Left Tackle Thayer Probably he did not want Beethoven to waste his time on piffling schoolboy exercises. Haydn Are we under an obligation, an inevitable necessity, to waste half an hour a day in skimming through the futilities of politics and the piffle of the news columns? The Teeth of the Tiger Well; first, I knew my daughter couldn't be the piffling lunatic who does your war cookery articles. The Title A Comedy in Three Acts "So that's the kind of piffle that managers and actors have to go up against," laughed Bunch. You Can Search Me When a girl has as much intelligence as—we needn't name names, need we?—she resents perpetual chaff and piffle. Deadham Hard She stared at this a long time, then she dipped a new pen in red ink and full across it she wrote "What rotten piffle!" The Wrong Twin And yet the conviction Expressed in this guise In the matter of fiction I'd like to revise; For of the romances Unceasingly shot From the press, most are piffle And very few not. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 Second, I asked myself: What reason has she for pretending to be that piffling lunatic? The Title A Comedy in Three Acts To Jane, oppressed with her two secrets, all at once their conversation seemed the dreariest piffle. The Apartment Next Door Listen: Instead of all this impossible piffle, let's start a real story. Jean of the Lazy A I knew — I knew what was coming, when we bid on the Byfleet's keel — They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel! Verses 1889-1896 No, upon reflection, I think I should rather describe it as a conglomeration of piffle, patriotism and pyrotechnics. The Certain Hour I'm merely telling you what will happen if father accepts that piffling baronetcy. The Title A Comedy in Three Acts Usually the only books any one wants to steal are sheer piffle, like Making Life Worth While by Douglas Fairbanks or Mother Shipton's Book of Oracles. The Haunted Bookshop I told him very firmly that this was piffle of the most wretched sort. Ruggles of Red Gap "Lord, what dreary piffle!" he confided to himself. The Gray Dawn While we read these feeble arguments, which the newspapers would call piffle, how can we escape the conviction that evolution is in desperate need of argument? The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments To talk about people keeping their places is ridiculous; in fact, it's piffle! The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" The thing that matters is that you are talking piffle, you poor fish. Right Ho, Jeeves And all this witless piffle because of a quite natural misunderstanding of mine. Ruggles of Red Gap Seems a piffling little sheet," he observed, "to be read in about eight seconds by any one not interested in advertisements. The Gray Dawn Imagine the Copernican theory relying on such piffle for support. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments Do you mean to say you seriously intend to hand in that piffle to Gethryn?' A Prefect's Uncle There was a rustling noise, and a rat scurried across the rickety floor, drawing a startled gasp from Audrey and a disgusted 'Oh, piffle!' from the Nugget. The Little Nugget In my catering I continued to steer a middle course between the British school of plain roast and boiled and a too often piffling French complexity, seeking to retain the desirable features of each. Ruggles of Red Gap Oh, I know you always score a personal success in the wahst of them, but they've never given you a Big character—and the play, outside of you, is always piffle. Harlequin and Columbine Jasper, Jr., stuck out his chest modestly, and said: "Oh, piffle, Colly." A Fool and His Money "Oh, piffle!" complained the girl, drawing aside for the men to pass her. Out of the Primitive Of course, it's piffle,—both of 'em,—but I just COULDN'T take hers away for no other reason than to get a good laugh out of it. Quill's Window I have no dirty linen to wash, no skeletons in the cupboard or piffle of that kind. Tales of Chinatown Later on we can report what we have done to the British government, and ask for condonation under the circumstances or pay whatever piffling fine they care to impose for the sake of appearances. The Ivory Trail Yes, that's it," said Jack, "but I want work: this is all right, in a way, but it's mostly piffle. Watersprings In the fall I am going to ask you to lend a hand in support of my conservation bills, which look like piffling affairs now in contrast with the big events of the day. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Whereas, surely, though you mustn't let me bore you with all this piffle, it's Falstaff is the genius, and W. S. merely a talented reporter. The Return Even I could see that this stuff was piffle; but it caught the boss. Roads of Destiny Probably the relief from the long tension of the buffalo hunt had something to do with my general piffling inefficiency. The Land of Footprints |
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