| 单词 | bagatelle |
| 例句 | Since then, he’s been a champion of the German composer, recording the complete cycle of concertos and sonatas, and even the bagatelles along the way. Irish pianist John O’Conor continues to show he’s a master of Beethoven 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z While practicing here, he has been playing pieces by Ukrainian composers, including bagatelles by Silvestrov, to remind him of home. Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s a little book, a bagatelle, but it’s a little book of irony and wit and heartbreak. Review: In ‘Hotels of North America,’ Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z “It does feel like a culmination,” she said of the album after her bagatelles marathon shift, in an interview at Rough Trade NYC. Mary Halvorson on Guitar: Unflinching and Full of Grace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Penderecki’s woody bagatelle, in its first United States performance, began with mournful arco bass over a buzzing violin drone; roles quickly reversed, Ms. Mutter playing solemn lines atop Mr. Patkolo’s sonorous ground. Music Review: Old Hand and a New One Crossing Paths in Harmony 2011-04-05T20:56:47Z From this one-act bagatelle you may not guess Molière's original intent: to skewer the corruption and ignorance of the medical fraternity he knew — his frequent satirical target. Review: Intiman's 'Doctor' is in, with raucous results 2010-09-14T04:01:00Z Given the intended format, most of the pieces were clever bagatelles based on a single notion: rhythmic intricacy, smooth blend, extended vocabulary and so on. Music Review: Subtleties No Recording Could Catch 2011-06-01T22:20:06Z Yet the cheers from the audience were just as enthusiastic after the most mellow bagatelle, music run through with an almost obsessively repetitive lapping bass riff in the piano and jazzy ruminations on the violin. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Mason Bates’s irresistibly oddball collection of four bagatelles layers electronics and percussive accents on top of a crisp, angular score. Classical Playlist: Conrad Tao, 'Scrapyard Exotica' and More 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Responding to a prolonged ovation, she played Beethoven’s genial late Bagatelle No. 5 in G from the six Opus 126 bagatelles, as an encore. Review: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Performs With Panache 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Even a brief dip into his bagatelles — short, playful pieces that he unveiled last year in weekly concerts, featuring a variety of ensembles and styles — leaves your head spinning: exhilarated, exhausted. A John Zorn Weekend — 10-Hour Marathon Concert Included 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z But even in these bagatelles, Mr. Ayckbourn doesn’t abandon his deeper view of humanity, which might be described as compassionately cynical. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z If anything, the slowly accumulating final chord of the bagatelle could have set up the softly arpeggiated one at the start of “Twilight Way,” the first of the “Poetic Tone Pictures.” Review: Dvorak’s ‘Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z A selection of the bagatelles has been performed each Sunday afternoon at the Stone for a year, and this is the final matinee. Brahms Sonatas, Pianissimo From Taka Kigawa, Zorn’s Bagatelles 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Reynard the Fox has returned — and it is here that Handler’s bagatelle ceases to be a bagatelle. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The dusky colors of the second bagatelle, an impassioned Lamentoso, were conveyed with particular intensity by the St. Luke’s ensemble. Music Review: ‘Gran Partita,’ by St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble 2012-09-23T21:16:05Z “Judith,” directed by Richard Romagnoli, is the shorter and more successfully realized of the productions, though it’s a bagatelle compared with Mr. Barker’s “Scenes From an Execution,” with which it is running in repertory. Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z He has added that his favorite genre is the “tragically naughty bagatelle.” What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z I am a bagatelle, the book declares, without consequence, and without a care that time is scarce and comedy a serious business. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Schiff's encores were a Schubert Hungarian melody and an impromptu, along with a late, transcendentally played bagatelle of Beethoven. András Schiff slyly and expertly plays late sonatas of legends 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z All his life Beethoven was a sucker for natural beauty, so this seemed an ideal setting for that ruminative bagatelle. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z Jean Gabin's impresario Henri Deglard is a bullish, worldly optimist; his dalliances with leading ladies are a mere bagatelle, compared to his passion for his great, yet fickle love: the audience. French Cancan ? review 2011-08-04T21:01:01Z “Für Elise” occasionally pops up in mainstream recordings; Paul Lewis released an aching account on an album of Beethoven bagatelles last summer. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z A bagatelle the length of a pop song, Beethoven’s trifle is recognizable from the start: a wobble between E and D sharp that gives way to a tune you’ve heard virtually everywhere. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Then, saying he will try, he proceeds to play the stormy bagatelle flawlessly, at least as much as we hear before the film cuts to the next scene. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z His idea, he said, was that performers would take a bagatelle and, like improvising jazz musicians, make a full piece of it. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Zorn may intend his bagatelles as tributes to Beethoven, but he’s adding a new spin. Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z There were three encores each night, including Schubert impromptus and Beethoven bagatelles. Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z If there was a misstep on Tuesday, it was in following the bagatelle with Beethoven’s “Pathétique” Sonata, which might have provided an impassioned climax had it not been performed with such a level head. Review: Dvorak’s ‘Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z From their origins in the Baroque period, bagatelles were generally light, mellow pieces for solo piano, until Beethoven pushed them to newly profound places. Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z As if to reinforce that, his encore was no mere bagatelle, but the third movement of Charles Ives's Concord Sonata, "The Alcotts". Llyr Williams 2010-07-19T21:31:00Z While in French and German, “bagatelle” means a trifle, when Beethoven titled three published volumes of solo piano pieces bagatelles he was being rather coy. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Recalled repeatedly for ovations by a thunderous audience, Mr. Pollini granted as encores two bagatelles from Beethoven’s Opus 126: No. 3, simple and generous; and No. 4, almost brusque at first, then rustic and charming. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini Plays Beethoven at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T20:38:17Z On the surface the first bagatelle from this group seems lyrical and soothing. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z The multimillionaire said that $100,000 “was a bagatelle to me” and that the loan was simply “a personal transaction based on old-time friendship.” A century before Jan. 6, bombshell hearings on another assault on democracy 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z “Ma Belle, My Beauty” may be a mere bagatelle, but it’s a diverting and attractive one. Review | This polyamorous romance, set in the South of France, captures the pleasures of late summer 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The host named it after his house, and bagatelle became wildly popular. The Backstory: The Comte d’Artois, pinball’s original wizard, lived life at full tilt 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z But that case involved tens of thousands of dollars - a mere bagatelle compared to the monster cryptocurrency scam whose story is being told in an enthralling BBC podcast. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Besides the wet bar, there’s a card table and a bagatelle table, a game derived from billiards. A ‘splendid’ historical house, with a horse farm 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Aside from a small display at the entrance featuring an 1800s-era bagatelle and amusing assortment of objects inside vintage machines, visitors are left to self-discovery. The Museum of Pinball makes a lot of noise in a quiet California town - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But, as in the similarly revisionist bagatelle “Damsel” that came out this summer, here the filmmakers seem more interested in critiquing traditional macho notions of ambition and impunity than valorizing them. Review | Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly’s new western has bloody violence and suffering. But it also has sweetness. 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Storm and company should rent the Rosalind Russell-Cary Grant charmer “His Girl Friday” for a clue to the manic “oomph” that could make this retro bagatelle more palatable to modern audiences. Love screwball comedies? Theatre 40 has a bada-bing 'Screwball Comedy' for you 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Russia’s escapade in Ukraine demonstrates that there are now few consequences to neo-imperial bagatelles, and China’s route to usurping the 22nd-richest country in the world – Taiwan – lies open. The demise of the nation state 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z As lighthearted, late-summer escapism goes, “Logan Lucky” is an amusing if convoluted and undisciplined bagatelle. Review | In ‘Logan Lucky,’ Steven Soderbergh makes an antic return from retirement 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “The Little Hours” is a bawdy bagatelle that has more than a few droll moments. Review | ‘The Little Hours’: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron,’ by way of f-bombs and modern lingo 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z First came the Democrats— “Hermione Clinton;” how have I never heard/said this!--but they were mere bagatelle. Once a week is not enough for Samantha Bee's 'Full Frontal' 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z In subject matter, this atmospheric bagatelle is the stuff of either melodrama or screwball comedy, with its twists, turns, coincidences and domestic disasters. Love, coincidence and fate intertwine in the romantic drama ‘3 Hearts’ 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z That device was the humble pinball machine - the earliest recorded being the bagatelles of 18th Century France. Why can't we let go of our old tech? 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The fixture that pits the Super League champions against the Australian National League winners, is rugby league's climactic contest, whose footballing equivalent is a bagatelle in comparison. Laura Trott on track, LeBron James on court and England-France on film 2013-02-16T22:00:15Z The two hundred extra miles he had to cover beyond Gibraltar was a mere bagatelle--a question of an hour and twenty minutes' flight. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z It is scarcely too much to say that his ostentatious preference for the bagatelle was a real, and not in the least affected fact. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z This bagatelle nettled the holy, father; and history relates, that letters were intercepted which he wrote to the Milanese, and other subjects of Frederick, to invite them to revolt. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z Count von Ettersberg to come riding over here, doing the agreeable, treating the whole affair of the lawsuit as a mere bagatelle. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z It is liberal in the space it gives to all fashionable frivolities, sports and pastimes, to all the bagatelles of life. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z I alone know what you are, and the price of my silence is a mere bagatelle. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z How I delighted in the copper weights, the spirit-lamp, the ivory scales, the vast magazines of lozenges, and the delicate lip-salve cases, to say nothing of the glittering toilet bagatelles, and perfumes and soaps! Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z And yet, when they were almost too few to bury their own dead, they talked of war with Canonicus as if it were mere bagatelle, answering defiance with defiance. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Still I cannot forbear noticing a few bagatelles. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z "My husband is not a bagatelle!" she laughed. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z It's nothing—just a flea bite—what the French call a game of bagatelle. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z A lenten fast, or a penance of parched peas in his shoes, would be a mere bagatelle to him. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z He could not repress his scorn for the man who could throw away his crown for such a bagatelle as the Church of England. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Suddenly it occurred to him to ask her what a bagatelle was. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z My object in going to the Crimea was to speculate in munitions of war, which I supposed would be sold for a mere bagatelle. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z It may be imagined that we accepted the ordinary conditions of glacier travelling as an agreeable relief, and that that which at another time might have seemed formidable we treated as the veriest bagatelle. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z “Goose” is intrinsically easier to learn than “duck”; “red” is a bagatelle beside “blue.” Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z But all of the mistakes of Mrs. Stowe noticed in the foregoing are mere matters of bagatelle as compared with the character and nature which she gives the average negro of the south. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z “A mere bagatelle, as father says,” said this saucy Queensland maiden, with an arch look at her companion. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z In France he had a private press in his house in Passy, on which he printed “bagatelles.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Such a place might be possible to two, or a bagatelle to three men. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z But there would be no marriages at all if men took any notice of such bagatelles as that. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z However, the time was too serious for the utility of bagatelles to be much considered by any. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z “Which do you mean is the bagatelle, Etheldene, my life, or the saving of it?” From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z His rage and distress knew no bounds; the loss of a far larger nugget had been a bagatelle compared with this. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z A trifling thing, a mere bagatelle; because I was carrying off with me a little bookkeeper's wife, the impertinent husband permitted himself to shout! The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Miss Black was not eluded by such bagatelles as trains and omnibuses, but by things of greater importance, by new-laid eggs, and fresh butter, and cottage loaves. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The following are also lawful games: whist and other lawful games at cards, backgammon, bagatelle, billiards, chess, draughts and dominoes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z “Which did you mean was the bagatelle—my life, or the saving of it?” From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z The Whistle, too, was addressed to Madame Brillon and is also one of the most celebrated of Franklin's bagatelles, but is scarcely equal, we think, to the best of them. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z And there they smoked, jumped, swung on horizontal bars, boxed, played at cards and bagatelle, free from interference save when interference became necessary. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z If he had said bagatelle, people would not have so much minded. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z Such an additional item of expense as a carriage for his wife was the merest bagatelle. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Father always speaks of a thousand pounds as a mere bagatelle.” From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z One of the essays of Franklin is an essay which he termed a "bagatelle," but which is of a different cast from most of his papers bearing that designation. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z They freely patronised the clubs, the musical evenings, the brass band, and the bagatelle board; and those who took themselves seriously debated and Mutually-Improved with pomp. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z Let his lounge, and his chair and his bagatelle board go—let all go! A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z I fight my way up till I win my grade, and this bagatelle. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z “What we go through is kind of a bagatelle by contrast.” Former Australian Leader's Rebound Raises Speculation of His Return to Power 2011-06-06T14:17:21Z I knew his people were fairly well to do, and that the eight dollars a week I paid him were a mere bagatelle toward his living expenses. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z "I shall get you the hundred thousand dollars right away," she said, as if it were a mere bagatelle. The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z Away with this impertinence; this is no place for bagatelle; I have murdered my honour, destroyed a lady, and my desire of reparation is come at length too late. The Inconstant 2011-04-27T02:00:21.193Z My horse was an excellent roadster; and I was expecting to do the fifty miles—a mere bagatelle to a South American steed—before sunset. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z That’s a mere bagatelle to such seasoned motorists as you, I suppose. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Not too bad, since I was pressed for time, but a bagatelle, Mr. Sims, to the business we shall yet do together. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z The bagatelle for which he was confined was robbery and murder by the following strange device. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z "You are entirely wrong to be worried," he asserted, and Fritz laughed and shrugged his shoulders as if the affair in question were a mere bagatelle. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Let us cast up those we have named; they amount only to a bagatelle of one thousand and twenty-five persons! Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Here were the remains of an estaminet, with its cash-box on the bar counter, and games such as soldiers love—dominoes and darts, and quoits and bagatelle, set out as though for an evening's entertainment. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z The whole of our budget is a mere bagatelle. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z No, not quite all, but the other was a mere bagatelle. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Its value, $80,000, was a mere bagatelle in his eyes. The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z At one, all usually re-assembled and partook of an excellent lunch; afterwards, there were billiards, bagatelle, and books; in short, each did as he thought fit. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z In fact, it was all a mere bagatelle not worth mentioning, but then the 'scoundrels' dunned so insolently, and it would really be refreshing to be rid of them all. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z He was now convinced that the cause of it had not been insignificant; a man like Nordheim would not have preserved for twenty years the memory of a mere bagatelle. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z There was the little coat of mink priced at a mere bagatelle. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z To modern speculators in any direction, what a bagatelle seems the sum of £2,000! Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Thus it went dodging about the circle like a marble on a bagatelle board. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z But he was a Corsican, and mountain bred, and there are but few Corsican mountaineers who, if they search their memories sufficiently, cannot recall some little peccadillo, some gunshot, or dagger thrust, or such-like bagatelle. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z In any case, it is clear that the 77 millions of checks economized, though absolutely great, is relatively a bagatelle. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Beneath all this bagatelle and dolce far niente, Maffitt was a remarkable man. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z In the original tables, which were square, there was one pocket, a hole in the centre of the table, as on a bagatelle board, the hoop or ring being retained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z These debts were mere bagatelles to me then, but they press me heavily now. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z A trio of hapless attempted clearances by Dowie's players, the last from Paul McShane, sent the ball ricocheting, bagatelle style, around the box. Hull 0-2 Aston Villa 2010-04-21T21:02:00Z "Yes, that was a great stroke," agreed Van Dorn; "but I object to the 'mere ridiculous bagatelle.'" The Bread Line A Story of a Paper Anticipating the appointment of delegates to a second Congress, Lord Dunmore issued his proclamation forbidding the procedure affecting to treat the convention as a mere bagatelle. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Footnote 53: "Truc" was a kind of game of skill, not unlike billiards, but more like bagatelle. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Oh! a bagatelle, I know, but you would have opportunities. The Gay Adventure A Romance It is true that special talent is worth any price, and that a payment of $400,000 a year to the head of a business with a turnover of millions is economically a bagatelle. The Acquisitive Society As likely as not Charles is off again, and will never come near us to say farewell; but that is a bagatelle. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec He had never doubted the favorable result and properly regarded the prosecution as a political bagatelle. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution I am told he bought the whole lot, lock, stock and barrel, for a bagatelle. Hard Pressed At all events, the voices of the young were getting stronger and more insistent, and it is no bagatelle to keep half a dozen gaping mouths full of spiders, as any mother bird can tell. A-Birding on a Bronco They discovered that in the panic he had dropped a bagatelle of five millions, and announced that he had committed suicide. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident The few thousands the trip would cost was a bagatelle to the man of millions. By Right of Conquest A Novel A native of the country, however, can have identically the same accommodations for one-third of the American's bill, and his tips are a bagatelle in comparison. The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America Such sums are but bagatelles in these days, but in 1814 the credit of the government was so poor that the notes depreciated one-fifth of their face value. The Greater Republic A History of the United States The result was amazing,—"genealogical" and "irreconcilable" were child's-play to him, "incomprehensibility," a bagatelle. Mothering on Perilous What might have come of being often with such damsels, there's no telling; but just then it was quite enough to dance with Emmeline, and muse with Susannah, and—vive la bagatelle! International Short Stories American Trade is a mere bagatelle—the French have no commerce—and whale-ships have deserted Papeetee, since most of the produce is consumed by the garrison. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia But our shelling in those days was a mere bagatelle to what it is now. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment By no means: we have seen that in our bagatelle board we talk very definitely about the distribution of all the peas, though only about the probable history of one pea. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics The Inspector bowed as if blackmailing was a mere bagatelle to him. The Deaves Affair Only seven months before he had held a grand “jubilee” in the parks, to celebrate the return of peace, treating his little difficulty with the Americans as a bagatelle not worth serious consideration. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. The patients play at chess, draughts, billiards, bagatelle, etc.; and out-of-door games comprise bowls, cricket, and croquet. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles The men of an evening could smoke their pipes, play at bagatelle, chess, draughts, or cards, and take such beer as they required, any man getting drunk or even noisy to be expelled the club. Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines This is a modification of the familiar bagatelle board, covered with glass and arranged as shown in Fig. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics Pho! my dear sir, that is a mere bagatelle compared with the good fortune which has just fallen to his lot. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. It proved just as Jack had said; what would have been a heavy weight for one to carry was a mere bagatelle for both, thanks to that pole, which was some six feet in length. Jack Winters' Campmates Why, nothing, hardly; a mere bagatelle for a gentleman and a scholar like you; but what about me and poor Virginia, slaving around to cook your meals? Shadow Mountain Instead she had the mere bagatelle of 75,000 or 100,000 men, which in the first months of the war actually constituted her whole available continental fighting force. Right Above Race She talked it over as a mere bagatelle. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Vive la bagatelle was his cry, but it was the cry of a man who had as deep a contempt for the wiser pursuits of life as for its frivolities. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) "Well, it sounds a mere bagatelle," said the more talkative of the other two, "but it takes a week of steady travel." The Quality of Mercy But to her he was not going until decency compelled him; he was going to have another game of bagatelle with Guy Knaggs first. The Camera Fiend You came to my assistance; that is, you buried me in the mud up to the neck, by means of the bagatelles with which you loaded me. A Romance of the West Indies But though, since then, values have varied, a bagatelle of ten millions is deep enough for any girl, sufficiently deep at least for its depths to hold strange things. The Paliser case "I do not think that playing bagatelle for new hats is—is—the best employment in the world either for a lady or for a gentleman." Is He Popenjoy? Vive la bagatelle, and Seward's alter ego at the European courts. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The following dramatic bagatelle was written in a few days, and its reception, under every circumstance, far exceeded its merits. She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa Then there were the bird cages, the iron hoops, the steel skates, the Queen Anne coal-scuttle, the bagatelle board, the hand organ—all gone, and jewels, too. Monday or Tuesday But his fear of her fainted beside the idea that if, disregarding the bagatelles of the door, he made his way to Margaret, she herself might not like it. The Paliser case And, after all, when they got to Berkeley Square no bagatelle was played at all. Is He Popenjoy? “He cut me down to it the last year––a mere bagatelle to what I had all the time I was at college and Tech.,” replied Ashton, his eyes sparkling at the 96 recollection. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation We cannot let bagatelles stand in the way. The Wild Geese The matter you know is now in my hands, and I pledge myself that shall suffice; I really think such a bagatelle as that cannot be objectionable to you. The Macdermots of Ballycloran A gentle pull that is a bagatelle to a strong rider is of great assistance to a weak one up hill or against a strong wind. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Then she would burst out again, and there would be Jack De Baron and the bagatelle. Is He Popenjoy? And so an hour passed as if it had been a bagatelle. Tharon of Lost Valley "They're bagatelle," she said, using one of her mother's rare phrases. The Rainbow Aristotle's work is, I am informed, in eight books: here is a bagatelle in twenty-five pages. The Life of Cicero Volume II. That wise Mr. Adams is in Paris with our dear Mr. Franklin——" "Who plays chess with French beauties and writes them skits and bagatelles, and, no doubt dances the grave minuet with them. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia "Do you think that playing bagatelle is—nice?" Is He Popenjoy? It is a pity to change an investment for such a bagatelle as two thousand pounds. The Marriage of Elinor Well, it cannot be helped, and it must be told, the curés of Le Morvan have their weak points; trifles, to be sure—mere bagatelles—but still they have them. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches The four balls, with which they played, were not much bigger than those generally used at bagatelle. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition Thanks to the invention of steam, a voyage across the ocean is now a mere bagatelle. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I "Let us all go to Berkeley Square and play bagatelle." Is He Popenjoy? Had it been Caspar, the climbing would have been a mere bagatelle, used, as the young hunter had been, to the precipices of the Alps while following the rock-loving chamois. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains “Oh, a mere bagatelle—you have given the captain forty onzas.” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora But, in truth, the empire was on the threshold of a century-long struggle compared with which the Onin War proved a bagatelle. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era In other matters the rules of bagatelle apply. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Playing at bagatelle with Jack De Baron for new hats, and she with the prospect before her of being Marchioness of Brotherton! Is He Popenjoy? He thought nothing, therefore, of progression in this way, and a hundred yards would be a mere bagatelle. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains It is an expense, which, once made, is made forever, and under these views it may be deemed a bagatelle, or at least necessary to the promotion of our greatest interests. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII On either side of the central gangway in the hall are tables where the old men can sit and smoke, and play dominoes, cards, and bagatelle. Chelsea The Fascination of London The Cannon Game.—This is usually considered the best and most scientific of bagatelle varieties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" But the bagatelle would almost have been better than what occurred. Is He Popenjoy? "A lucky accident; a mere trifle; what you call a bagatelle." My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France Even the lighter recreations of battledore and bagatelle were pursued with relentless activity. My Father as I Recall Him Now that the main enemy had withdrawn her horns and heels from the garden, winter seemed a mere bagatelle in the way of opposition—an obstacle too small for reckoning. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives The Evans case is a bagatelle to this. The Opened Shutters Was it to be endured that his wife should make appointments to play bagatelle with Jack De Baron by way of passing her time? Is He Popenjoy? This liability imposes a heavy tax upon an unproductive community, although if you were producers it would be a bagatelle. The Rapids The court was in a quandary, in comparison to which the former perplexities in regard to the Grävenitzin were mere bagatelles. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Twenty thousand dollars, or a hundred thousand francs; but that is a bagatelle to him. Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing In the penetralia of the parlour which he left I saw a group of floury comrades, the prominent features of the gathering being depression and bagatelle. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis "I don't know that bagatelle is a very improving occupation." Is He Popenjoy? Cox and Fred Pepper, who divided the trifle between them, laughed at the bagatelle. Ralph the Heir But the part you played then was a bagatelle to the one awaiting you now. Black Oxen Now she would burst out crying because of some bagatelle, now she was laughing as though nothing had ever happened. The Goose Man Any bombardment this world has ever known was a mere bagatelle to this. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" "I don't know that there is much soaring upwards in bagatelle." Is He Popenjoy? After all, in the face of death, financial ruin seemed a mere bagatelle. Hidden Gold Then there's a room where we can go in and read papers, write letters, or play draughts or bagatelle and all that sort of thing. Tommy A good illustration of the transmission of wave-motion may be shown with a number of ivory bagatelle or billiard balls. Aether and Gravitation I knew a nice little boy once, just your age, that used to come and see me regular once a week and play bagatelle with me. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story I have played bagatelle with Captain de Baron, and I daresay I may again. Is He Popenjoy? With quips he wove a spell; His creed—he cried it with a will— Was "Vive la bagatelle!" The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) His favourite maxim was, “Vive la bagatelle;” he thought trifles a necessary part of life, and, perhaps, found them necessary to himself. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II This was a mere bagatelle to what Miss Eliza would say if she knew What had happened at the January Cotillion! The Heart of Arethusa Then the subject of bagatelle happened to come up, and presently Stephen was again delighting and astonishing the good gentleman by his skill in that game. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story If you mean to forbid me to play bagatelle with Captain De Baron, or Captain anybody else, or to talk with Mr. This, or to laugh with Major That, tell me so at once. Is He Popenjoy? To-day we wear too grave a face; We slave,—we buy and sell; Forget a while mad Mammon's race In "Vive la bagatelle!" The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) But this wonder will cease when I inform you, that the hallowing out of a chamber in the trunk of a baobab is a mere bagatelle, and costs but trifling labour. Ran Away to Sea The "Congratulation" is a cheerful bagatelle; the "Irish Melody" is sturdy, simple, and fetching; but the "Scherzino" is a hard 212 bit of humor with Beethoven mannerisms lacking all the master's unction. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The question of the franchise was a bagatelle: a soap-bubble would have been pretext enough for war when the right hour and moment arrived. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 He now sent his original twenty dollars back to his mother to prove to her that he was prosperous and money was but a bagatelle and a burden. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen He could, of course, spend his money at the rate of £2,000 a year, a mere bagatelle in these days of fantastic, senseless luxury. The Conquest of Bread As you sit in your easy-chair, you may fancy that this is a mere bagatelle—a little bewilderment that one may easily escape from who has a good horse between his thighs. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse But all this is but a bagatelle to the fashions in deformity which we find among nearly all American women. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home “I am quite aware,” said Voltaire, “that she is reproached with some bagatelles in the matter of her husband, but these are family affairs with which I cannot possibly think of meddling.” Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. He could not be cold-blooded enough to drive even such a bagatelle from his head. Debts of Honor It will mean the expenditure of a considerable sum of your money, but I know it will be a mere bagatelle if your object is accomplished. The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia Though a mere bagatelle, of course, for the idle rich. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 It develops a bureaucracy so formidable that the French bureaucratic system, which imposes the intervention of 40 functionaries to sell a tree blown across a national road by a storm, becomes a bagatelle in comparison. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 It's a mere bagatelle to me, as you must know. Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast We were all well mounted, our horses were fresh and full of vigor, and to all but one of us the ride itself was the merest bagatelle. In Direst Peril In Virginia the July sunshine is no bagatelle. The Long Roll Love was all very well, so Cigarette's philosophy had always reckoned; a chocolate bonbon, a firework, a bagatelle, a draught of champagne, to flavour an idle moment. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida But it is hardly worth while your applying to one who am in power for the moment, a support of the Republic, in order to obtain such a bagatelle. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I Nothing at all, a bagatelle, that might happen to any one. The Wind Bloweth He could face a body of soldiers without flinching, and he could meet daily the frivolousness and folly, the bagatelles and boutades of his pretty wife without losing patience. Hubert's Wife A Story for You Having encased himself in some serviceable tweeds and a blue guernsey, he rolled me in his coat ere beginning to demolish the homeward mile—an infinitesimal bagatelle to such a magnificent pair of arms. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn She would go walks with them in the woods, help them to arrange their various collections of butterflies, foreign stamps, and picture post cards, and play endless games of draughts, halma, or bagatelle. The Princess of the School Most of these miserable beings had already often bathed themselves knee-deep in blood; and therefore to commit murder was a bagatelle, as long as it brought profit. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I As its name indicates, it is used on folding bagatelle tables, small writing desks, and other types of work that have but a narrow margin on which to fix the hinges. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. Such a journey is a mere bagatelle to them. The Boy Hunters The man in the ragged cloak calls ten gold-pieces a mere bagatelle. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika Ah! in the eyes of real connoisseurs sixty thousand florins were but a bagatelle for such a matchless creature! A Hungarian Nabob Recognizing at once its miraculous powers, the Spanish priests obtained it from the savages for a mere bagatelle, and enshrined it in their Catholic chapel as the Santo Niño of Cebu. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Afterwards they played a game at bagatelle, but it took all their patience to stand Herbert's whims and tricks. Carry's Rose, or, the Magic of Kindness. A Tale for the Young A million is no bagatelle; the game is worth the candle. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania Billiards, bagatelle, draughts, etc., are provided, and there is a good stock of newspapers and books. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly "Oh, a mere bagatelle—only a week, aunty." A Hungarian Nabob And Coleridge—than whom in the mines of mental science few have dug deeper, and though Xerxes-hosts of word-slaves waited on his pen—often wrote apparently mere bagatelle—the most transcendental nonsense. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. "They were firing from behind the bagatelle board at a target fixed over there," said Phil, pointing to the far wall. The Hand in the Dark America is doing a great deal in the way of Red Cross and relief work, but it is a mere bagatelle compared with the activities of England in this direction. A Journey Through France in War Time For, after all, what do we ask him to give up? a bagatelle.' Tancred Or, The New Crusade Yes, it is but a trifle, as things go nowadays—a bagatelle—but amusing. Chapters from My Autobiography The effervescence produced by yesterday's fortunate adventure had not quite subsided; he was determined to forget his sorrows, and, if only for a day, join in the lively chorus of Vive la bagatelle! Henrietta Temple A Love Story "He could only have left it on the bagatelle board or one of the chairs," replied Phil earnestly. The Hand in the Dark Any fine within the power of the court to impose is a mere bagatelle, compared to the distinction of scientifically man-handling four of society's finest in one afternoon. North of Fifty-Three To have the wind stamped out of one is a mere bagatelle, of course, and I have forgotten it in another moment under the spur of excitement. The Opinions of a Philosopher "Oh, a bagatelle like that wouldn't embarrass as shrewd and resourceful a business man as he," assured Paul breezily. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers "I should rather like to have the thanks of Congress," answered Sam, as if that were a mere bagatelle. Captain Jinks, Hero Colwyn lifted the case down from the embrasure in which it was placed, and carried it to the bagatelle table. The Hand in the Dark A thirty-mile tramp was a bagatelle, and houses of entertainment—farmhouses where a traveler could rest or eat for a few pennies—were scattered along the road. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Our East Aurora hero sold out his interests, in Eighteen Hundred Ninety, for some such bagatelle as thirteen million dollars. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Did I not play at bagatelle with L.? Did I not read eloquently out of Carlyle to you and C.? Did I not talk wisdom to you by the yard? Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter The Mexican had been convinced of his keen interest in the girl and, further, knew from of old how lightly Jim Kendric held such mere bagatelles as dollars. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure He raised the little lid with his finger-nail, and a shower of percussion caps fell on the bagatelle table. The Hand in the Dark The £200,000 to be allotted him as vendor was a bagatelle; but to hold four million votes out of nine million was to control an empire. Swirling Waters What!—she, who lays her daughters and her nieces Upon the altar of her boarders' bliss,— She frown at such a bagatelle as this? Love's Comedy This feud arose out of a mere bagatelle, followed by the seizure of a pig, and up to the time I left the region had given rise to four deaths. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Sir, I enclose you one or two more of my bagatelles. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham After we finished shooting some of us had a game of bagatelle on a table in the gun-room. The Hand in the Dark Fiction, you know, is the native region of poetry; and I hope you will pardon my vanity in sending you the bagatelle as a tolerable offhand jeu d'esprit. Robert Burns How To Know Him You say that you are wronged—ah, well, I count that friendship poor, at best A bauble, a mere bagatelle, That cannot stand so slight a test. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Here are badminton, tennis, volley ball, indoor baseball, quoits, deck billiards, bagatelle, ping-pong, and other games. With Our Soldiers in France I enclose you some poetic bagatelles of my late composition. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham To clean oleaginous scum from a dinner-tin is not easy, but it is a mere bagatelle compared with cleaning the scorched high-tide-mark of tapioca or sago from the shores of a large metal pudding-basin. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital I have heard the stern cynic jingle his Napoleons in unison with the frantic strains, and sneer out, "Vive la bagatelle!" Trifles for the Christmas Holidays To me the sum seemed immense, but he regarded it as a bagatelle. The Quest of the Simple Life They loved one another and were ready without hesitation to commit all sorts of follies, deeming them mere bagatelles, which on solid land they would never have condoned in themselves. Atlantis Indeed I had one apology—the bagatelle was not worth presenting. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The theft of state funds was a bagatelle to people whom ten years of implacable warfare had rendered blasé about all brigandage. The House of the Combrays But the land held by the foreigner in the United States is a mere bagatelle. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South As to the satisfaction for slaves carried off, it is a bagatelle, which, if not made good before the last instalment becomes due, may be secured out of that. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Our foreign debt will be then a bagatelle. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 I do not give you the foregoing song for your book, but merely by way of vive la bagatelle; for the piece is not really poetry. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham A comédienne's wig I can sell you for a bagatelle. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Why! if he were willing, this Molina—Molina the Tumbler!—for him it is a mere bagatelle, a hundred thousand francs! His Excellency the Minister The book abounds in nocturnes, arabesques, masquerades, bagatelles, rococo pastorals. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He wrapped himself in it, head and all, and, being Indian, it was a bagatelle to him to crawl out on his stomach. Joy in the Morning To tell the matter-of-fact, except when my passions were heated by some accidental cause, my Jacobitism was merely by way of vive la bagatelle. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham One gives a watch, a bagatelle, and then—there is time. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Twelve hundred pounds is a bagatelle with most people, but I feel I shall effect wonders with it. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town He took the bagatelle home to his father's farm, where a neighbour, one Van Niekirk, saw it and was struck by its brilliancy. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans A good life secures an elevated and happy life on earth, or as a blessed spirit in one of the many heavens, where existence is continued for a bagatelle of ten billion years. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East I take the liberty to enclose you a few bagatelles, all of them the productions of my leisure thoughts in my excise rides. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham But he expounded his theory to her, telling her that before many years things that were miracles in the time of Christ would be scientific bagatelles in the hospitals. Captivity The reserves themselves would cost nothing, the Indians could find employment as other Indians have, and the expense of establishing would be a bagatelle. Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 In two weeks he had lost twenty dollars at bagatelle, obtaining the money by selling a portion of his bonds at a certain broker's on Montgomery Street. Vandover and the Brute Either he or one of his predecessors purchased a brilliant for which he paid the bagatelle of four hundred thousand dollars. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East I had a packet of poetic bagatelles ready to send to Lady Betty, when I saw the fatal tidings in the newspaper. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The cost of governing our little town is not at all heavy, and when divided out at per head of the inhabitants it seems but a mere bagatelle. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically But that is a mere bagatelle for you. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 But one day, about six months before his visit to Geary's office, Vandover saw that the proprietor of the Reno House had set up a great bagatelle board in a corner of the reading-room. Vandover and the Brute The English-speaking people of India are a mere bagatelle compared with the enormous population, being only 238,499; but with the army they have been able to hold the country in subjection. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East If the robbers overlooked something that I had, a bagatelle I needed for the days of my adversity, was it my business to pluck them by the sleeve and turn traitor to myself? Queed For him, too, it was a mere bagatelle. Edward MacDowell Wickersham discounted the note; but the amount was only a bagatelle to him: a bucket-shop had swallowed it within an hour. Gordon Keith The cut is a bagatelle, monsieur, and I must to the road again. For The Admiral Though hard at first, it proved a bagatelle. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II It's worth noticing, this way we all have of pondering for ourselves the enterprise, which, for others, we hold a bagatelle. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I And again the last mentioned teacher states: "the entire universe is a bagatelle illustration of your own creative power, which you are now exhibiting for your own inspection." A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga Your refusal of this bagatelle assures me of your honour. Clementina Consider what a man's genuine business must be like when he can jauntily allude to three hundred thousands as a bagatelle by the way. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour I recollect in a former letter having offered you some more bagatelles, but I by no means press you to take them. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 "It is not a return to old times, alas!" said Hamilton, gaily; "for what we all had to do then was a bagatelle to this, and you have made the supreme sacrifice of your life." The Conqueror But all this loss, in some cases lasting for years, is but a bagatelle in comparison to the loss in men and treasure during the four years of our Civil War. History of Kershaw's Brigade Whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo and keno, cards, or bagatelle, the very idea of the thing is dishonest; for it professes to bestow upon you a good for which you give no equivalent. The Abominations of Modern Society Swift's darling motto was, Vive la bagatelle—a good wish for a philosopher of his complexion, the greater part of whose wisdom, whencesoever it came, most certainly came not from above. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Thanks for the proceeds of the bagatelles, with which I am quite satisfied. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 Obsequious footmen assisted him to take off his wrappers in the great hall, whose vastness dwarfed the billiard-table in its centre to bagatelle proportions. Bred in the Bone In 1838 he thought nothing of undertaking, amid all the demands of active life, such a bagatelle as a History of the French Revolution. Studies in Literature At first he only asked for a hundred or so, a mere bagatelle, for a few days—only temporary convenience. Hodge and His Masters La bagatelle has no enemy in me, though it has neither so warm a friend, nor so able a one, as it had in him. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Here my time's so completely filled ... physical exercise ... my cares of watch-dog, I ... hardly give a thought to the bagatelle. Barks and Purrs The dispersion of the Sixth Regiment had been such a mere bagatelle, and their own number had, since then, been re-enforced by half the professional rowdies in town. Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Yes, the wife I cared for would have made me supremely happy, but vive la bagatelle! Not Pretty, but Precious The bank was glad to get hold of what really looked like legitimate business, and he obtained the bagatelle in the easiest manner—so easily that it surprised him. Hodge and His Masters It is a mere bagatelle, and as an amusive trifle may not be unacceptable. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 It is not yet too late to supply this defect, and the expense to government would be a mere bagatelle. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 Vive la bagatelle! trembled upon his lips at the age of threescore; and he amused himself with reading the most trifling books he could find, and writing upon the most trifling subjects. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Pictures of the crown worn by Edgar will convince the reader that its redemption was no slight task, while the mortgage on the throne was a mere bagatelle. Comic History of England Much more important than any of these bagatelles, which were often hastily composed for a birthday celebration or some other festive occasion, are the two fine poetic dramas, Iphigenie and Tasso. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Aggie sniffed, as if such an outcome were the merest bagatelle. Within the Law "A mere matter of detail, a bagatelle," said J. T. Maston. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Eighty thousand pounds is a bagatelle for the place; yet if Fred forces a sale, it may go for that, or even less. The Man Between, an International Romance If one day someone were to present it with a million pounds and four billiard tables, next week we should be asked to subscribe to a fund to buy it a bagatelle board. The Brother of Daphne Beside it burglary was a bagatelle, but one to deprecate none the less. The Amateur Cracksman They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but, to me, a modest woman, drest out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. She Stoops to Conquer Trifles develop into tragedies, and the bagatelle of one day ripens into the catastrophe of the next. The Captain of the Polestar My head aches at the thought of the bookkeeping, but Percy waves that aside as a mere bagatelle. Dear Enemy Indeed, I had one apology—the bagatelle was not worth presenting. The Letters of Robert Burns Last time I was here I wanted money, a mere bagatelle to you. The Crimson Blind The thing is, it's true, a mere trifle, and the amount only a bagatelle, but it doesn't seem to be quite proper. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books This patriarchal festival is said to have cost M. Dollfus half a million of francs, a bagatelle in a career devoted to giving! In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" If, after all, we must with Wilmot own, The cordial drop of life is love alone, And Swift cry wisely, 'Vive la bagatelle!' The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 I inclose you some poetic bagatelles of my late composition. The Letters of Robert Burns About the time when this facetious bagatelle was penned, or a little earlier perhaps, Schiller became the hero of a comedy in real life. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Yet the amount of cotton produced annually in the Hot Land is shamefully small, not exceeding ten million pounds,—a mere bagatelle, which Manchester would devour in a week. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 He lifted her and carried her, not quite steadily, for carrying a full-grown woman is not the bagatelle novelists would have us believe it. The Incomplete Amorist Existence in this town is a succession of bagatelles. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger I take the liberty to inclose you a few bagatelles, all of them the productions of my leisure thoughts in my excise rides. The Letters of Robert Burns It is only a bagatelle at the worst, and our folks would not have gone to extremities if he had shown only a disposition to settle. The Channings And there is another exotic variety—the vive la bagatelle bore of the ape kind—who imitate men of genius. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Besides being so convenient the cost of the apparatus is a mere bagatelle. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. She must represent the coming function as a mere bagatelle for simplicity and informality. With the Procession Fiction, you know, is the native region of poetry; and I hope you will pardon my vanity in sending you the bagatelle as a tolerably off-hand jeu-d'esprit. The Letters of Robert Burns I give not only gold but all it can buy, inclusive of such bagatelles as love and honour, and all the other little nothings men cry up when they have a mind to be droll. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty It would have been a mere bagatelle but for the Gap Gang cutting in on our line of retreat. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea After all said and done, what a bagatelle to make such a fuss about. Hunger There were tables in front of the windows and chairs against the walls, and in the middle of the room a bagatelle board. Esther Waters SIR,—I enclose you one or two more of my bagatelles. The Letters of Robert Burns "Bagatelles, bagatelles," said the priest pensively; but he rose with greater spirit than he had yet shown, and preceded the consul into the little room that served him for a smithy. A Foregone Conclusion The fact of the matter was that he had received a rude shock once; it sounded silly, it was only a bagatelle, but it proved of far-reaching effect. Shallow Soil No; I said that I had made a mis-entry once, a bagatelle; if you want to know, a false date on a letter, a single stroke of the pen wrong--that was my whole crime. Hunger After dinner Mr. Forrest and I used to take lengthy rides, along wild roads, on horses of extraordinary capabilities, and in the evening we used to have bagatelle and reading aloud. The Englishwoman in America I read to my much-respected friend several of my own bagatelles, and, among others, your lines, which I had copied out. The Letters of Robert Burns Lucan is reported to have declared that his own works were bagatelles in comparison. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius But there were other little things, other bagatelles: She liked to go to the opera; he didn't. Shallow Soil That which occurred was a mere bagatelle to what was threatened. A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States On one or two evenings some very agreeable neighbours came in; and in addition to bagatelle we had puzzles, conundrums, and conjuring tricks. The Englishwoman in America It was a great triumph, and the remaining forty grains were a mere bagatelle, to be disposed of with the same serene self-control that the first had been. The Opium Habit The club, so I thought, had got on very nicely with more intellectual pursuits: draughts, chess, bagatelle, and what-not. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel "True," said Lady Esmondet, though she cannot quote in a personal sense of the "heavy cloak of the body still as weighed against a cultivated intellect, roundness of form is a mere bagatelle." A Heart-Song of To-day The country was so prosperous with the privilege of selling Europe the weapons of suicide that the vast destructiveness of the German submarines was a bagatelle. We Can't Have Everything A rummage in the interior of the shop procured candle clips, and a variety of glittering bagatelles. A Versailles Christmas-Tide However, the administrator of the religious order left to them, for humanity’s sake, the usufruct of the land on condition that they pay a small sum annually—a mere bagatelle, twenty or thirty pesos. The Reign of Greed The homeward trip would be a mere bagatelle, for surely no Huns would venture to attack them while on the way. Air Service Boys over the Atlantic "I humbly appeal to you all," said Bertram in seriocomic tone, "is my rotundity a mere bagatelle?" A Heart-Song of To-day The words of his father had moved him to such a point that he could not restrain his tears; on the other hand, at such a moment, four thousand francs were no bagatelle. International Short Stories: French "You talk as if an affair of thousands of thousands, perhaps millions, were quite a bagatelle," he said. At Love's Cost "It is a small thing--a mere bagatelle in the French Rentes--but one sees one's opportunities, one sees one's opportunities." The Velvet Glove Would she ever again forget amateur, abyss, accelerate, bagatelle, bronchitis, boudoir and isosceles? Miss Prudence A Story of Two Girls' Lives. Baccalaureate, badinage, bagatelle, baleful, ballast, banality, baneful, beatitude, bellicose, belligerent, benefaction, beneficent, benison, betide, bibulous, bigotry, bizarre, bombastic, burlesque. The Century Vocabulary Builder "What's that? only a bagatelle," sniffed Tom, "compared to what I meant to do." Five Little Peppers Abroad I can testify that I have seen at dances a girl who had more than twelve pounds of porcelain on her person, not including the other bagatelles with which they are loaded and bedecked. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 Our canoe landed in order to give them some bagatelles, at which they were greatly pleased. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 Even in our day, it is the custom to conceal the dagger, the handkerchief for wiping the face, and other bagatelles of personal convenience, in the folds of the girdle. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Compared with his wealth the great fortunes of ten or fifteen years before dwindled into bagatelles. Great Fortunes from Railroads This may all be true and yet the amount grown in India be a bagatelle to the product of China, which consumes at home about nine times the amount exported. Round the World A thunderbolt in the great hall had been a bagatelle to it. Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers When we consider what a delicate and perishable fruit this is, it can be understood that gathering and packing it properly is no bagatelle. Success with Small Fruits The Northern Mississippi would, of course, be a mere bagatelle to a man like Hegan, but who could tell what new plans he might be able to fit it into? The Moneychangers I didn't come out here for a bagatelle. The Gilded Age, Part 2. When you have sat a half score of times on the wooden horse, or stood on the stake, then you will think this sort of thing is a mere bagatelle. Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus To him a hundred silver rubles is a mere bagatelle. Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian It was a mere bagatelle of a hundred thousand or so, from some forgotten aunt in the West. The Metropolis But Rustum Khan was a bagatelle compared to what was coming, if we had only known it. The Eye of Zeitoon "Convalescing rapidly," laughed back the patient, to whom the loss of anything was a mere bagatelle beside the letter. Guy Garrick Between lovers, fights like these are mere bagatelles. The McNaughtens His favourite maxim was "Vive la bagatelle:" he thought trifles a necessary part of life, and perhaps found them necessary to himself. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 But she knows I hate to be idle, and love to do these bagatelles for her. Love Me Little, Love Me Long I asked him about the fighting in Gallipoli, and lie said that was a bagatelle. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders But I don't want your good looks, and I don't want your womanly feelings, and I don't want your thoughts nor opinions nor your ideas—they are all bagatelles to me.' Women in Love He returned the "bagatelles" with a few friendly lines to Voltaire, and invited him to accompany him to Potsdam. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends "Whoever judges me by such bagatelles is also a scamp!" Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words I said, 'See here, this is just a bagatelle to you, no doubt, but to me it might be of some use. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich I carried for my share of the luggage three arquebuses, three paddles, my overcoat, and a few bagatelles. Pioneers of France in the New World What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.' Women in Love Formerly the production of silk was an important export to France, but of late years it has decreased to a mere bagatelle. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Among other insults," said he,— "but that is a mere bagatelle, a very secondary consideration—they style me General! Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 14 Like bagatelles we felt in that tremendous place, the weird luminaries gleaming above like garlands of frozen suns, the enigmatic hosts of animate cubes and spheres and pyramids trooping past. The Metal Monster I have been half cut to pieces before now; this is a mere bagatelle. Under Two Flags What though the Cherokee title be a flimsy one at best and the price offered for it a bagatelle! Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground He hurried off, and in a moment the clack of bagatelle began again. The Island Pharisees My disappointment must seem a bagatelle to you, who will be so distressed at leaving your old home. Saint's Progress Certain malicious tongues assert that you are no longer free; I do not believe them; besides, this would be a mere bagatelle.' Samuel Brohl and Company Love was all very well, so Cigarette's philosophy had always reckoned; a chocolate bonbon, a firework, a bagatelle, a draught of champagne, to flavor an idle moment. Under Two Flags The sole of one's foot is a mere bagatelle—it will never be anything but just a base, dirty sole. Poor Folk It was furnished with a bagatelle board, two or three wooden tables, some wooden forms, and a wooden bookcase. The Island Pharisees But it is a mere "bagatelle" this that I am now upon; though, next year, it may become serious. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 They seemed to regard the war as a mere bagatelle, not worth being in earnest about. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny The things will be worth a great deal to me where I shall send them, and though they are but bagatelles, what is Paris itself but one bagatelle? Under Two Flags A mere bagatelle in its way; and yet here it had risen up, this miserable, insignificant check, and become a mountain of opposition, a stone wall, a prison-wall barring his further progress. The Financier, a novel One was reading, one against the wall was drinking coffee with a disillusioned air, two were playing chess, and a group of four made a ceaseless clatter with the bagatelle. The Island Pharisees As to what I spent here, it was a mere bagatelle compared with what the other did,—the one before me. Other People's Money He was troubled about trifles of criticisms and gossip, bagatelles not worth noticing, still less worth remembering and recording. Essays in Little She was no longer there, in all probability; but the lost bagatelle would give him, some time or another, a plea on which to enter her presence. Under Two Flags Each one appropriated a bagatelle, until the traveller was stripped bare. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 He realized that two miles a minute was a mere bagatelle to the pace now accomplished by the runaway locomotive. Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails "It's only my little bit of money, your Excellency; my modest little fortune—a mere bagatelle," said the Jew. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space At fifteen cents a dozen, the initial cost of his thousand dozen would be one hundred and fifty dollars, a mere bagatelle in face of the enormous profit. The Faith of Men “Overdue” was the title he had decided for it, and its length he believed would not be more than sixty thousand words—a bagatelle for him with his splendid vigor of production. Martin Eden They go ahead, as if it was a bagatelle. The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature But Vaillantcoeur had broken only a nose, a collar-bone, and two ribs—for one like him that was but a bagatelle. The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature |
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