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Sentences ending with trifle

The gold with which we can set up housekeeping--" "Oh, yes," interrupted Biberli, "the zecchins and gold florins are certainly no trifle. [10]
No one is too rich to receive something, and no one too poor to give a trifle. [4]
To get Philip there without being seen was to Argutis a mere trifle. [10]
Leaning back languidly, she was eyeing him closely from under drooping lids, smiling, too, in an unimportant sort of way, as if what she had said was a trifle. [11]
If she got out of bed the wrong way, or one did not guess her wishes before they were uttered, she would fly into a rage at the least trifle. [10]
The situation jarred on him a trifle. [9]
These men were not there to guard their possessions against strangers, but against each other; for strangers seldom visit Athens and the Piraeus, and when they do, they go in daylight, and can buy all the grapes they want for a trifle. [5]
Is always sending me some trifle. [5]
And that reminds me of a trifle. [5]
The proposed work is growing, mightily, in my estimation, day by day; and I'm not going to throw it away for any mere trifle. [5]

Short sentences using trifle

Not a trifle, I'll venture. [7]

Sentences containing trifle two or more times

The young stock cost but a trifle, the rearing but another trifle, and so Hawkins was easily persuaded to embark his slender means in the enterprise and turn over the keep and care of the animals to Sellers and Uncle Dan'l. [5]
These gentlemen seemed a trifle amused--and a trifle confused, too--but one of them said he would walk around the corner with me and show me the place. [5]

More example sentences with the word trifle in them

Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
I don't want you to trifle with any one. [8]
I hope you won't trifle with him, and let him get the notion that he's coming on any other basis. [8]
You mustn't trifle with it, you know, or it may turn to pneumonia," she would go on, deriving much comfort from the utterance of that foreign word, incomprehensible to others as well as to herself. [2]
Oh, don't trifle with a poor wreck like me. [5]
But I am willing to admit this much: we do crowd the orders a trifle when we get a chance, which is most of the time. [5]
It is not well to trifle with me! [10]
I found he was only a friendly villain who wanted a trifle of bucksheesh, and after begging what he could get in that way, was perfectly willing to trade off everything he had for more. [5]
But Mr. Cooke was looking a trifle bewildered. [9]
And when it was finished they took their departure, a trifle awkwardly, led by Mr. Painter. [9]
The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall not trifle with Shakespeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act with equal inspiration. [6]
His appearance was unexceptionable, but his heavy jaw was set in a manner which should have warned Mr. Cooke not to trifle with him. [9]
Thus the merest trifle, when it affects the emperor, becomes important for the millions over whom he rules. [10]
He was a trifle more robust than when he came to Brampton in the summer, but perhaps she doubted his promise to pay. [9]
There was a trifle more color in her cheeks, and her head was raised a little, and her eyes were fixed upon him gravely. [9]
It was a trifle easier to avoid being specific in that country in his day than it is now, and the document was, in my opinion, sufficiently vague to admit of a double meaning. [9]
This was a trifle discouraging to Stephen. [9]
Things were a trifle different now. [9]
I made a trifle by betting on the log. [5]
I borrowed the trifle and banked the five hundred. [5]
I have never told you about him," he added with some hesitation; "he's a trifle queer, but a good fellow at the bottom. [9]
What he meant to say was, "Adam was the first and Adams is the last of earth," but he put it off a trifle too long, and so he had to go with that unmeaning observation on his lips. [5]
Five hundred years to go a trifle over three miles! [5]
It is early to be in bed, but I'm always abed before 9, on this voyage; and up at 7 or a trifle later, every morning. [5]
That trifle seemed to almost change the counterfeit into a corpse. [5]
I particularly longed to acquire the least trifle of notice from the big stormy mate, and I was on the alert for an opportunity to do him a service to that end. [5]
At the same time there was another power that was a trifle stronger than both of us put together. [5]
Others would have thought her a trifle over-plump. [5]
And some of them--particularly Mrs. Wallis Plimpton were inclined to think Hodder's replies a trifle noncommittal. [9]
Their character and their history, their customs and their religion, confront you with riddles at every turn-riddles which are a trifle more perplexing after they are explained than they were before. [5]
These latter compel the peasant to bring his little trifle of grain to the village, at his own cost. [5]
Give a man the merest trifle of pluck to start with, and by the time he has become a pilot he cannot be unmanned by any danger a steamboat can get into; but one cannot quite say the same for judgment. [5]
I stopped at the house to speak to Augusta, and then--(he speaks a trifle apologetically)--well, I went for a little walk. [9]
A painting in the dining-hall verged upon the indelicate --but then the Margravine was herself a trifle indelicate. [5]
If one of the boats has a 'lightning' pilot, whose 'partner' is a trifle his inferior, you can tell which one is on watch by noting whether that boat has gained ground or lost some during each four-hour stretch. [5]
The grape and the bath and the mud make a show and do a trifle of the work--the real work is done by the surreptitious starvation. [5]
I told him that this was a sort of miracle that required a trifle of preparation, and that it would be sudden death to ever talk about these preparations to anybody. [5]
Perlin's comment is that men are hung for a trifle in England, and that you will not find many lords whose parents have not had their heads chopped off. [4]
No man may tell his dreams fasting; but as soon as I had eaten my first mouthful she would bid me tell her all, to the veriest trifle, and would solemnly seek the interpretation of every vision. [10]
Three miles below St. Petersburg, at a point where the Mississippi River was a trifle over a mile wide, there was a long, narrow, wooded island, with a shallow bar at the head of it, and this offered well as a rendezvous. [5]
I will enclose some scraps from my Autobiography--scraps about General Grant--they may be of some trifle of use, and they may not--they at least verify known traits of his character. [5]
I never was so glad over any mere trifle before in my life. [5]
For an instant she stood blankly holding the pen, and then she wrote rapidly, if a trifle unsteadily: "Mrs. Leffingwell and maid. [9]
I have often seen people do like that--get entirely lost in the simplest trifle, when it is something that is out of their line. [5]
He is the same silent, sallow person as when Jethro first took a mortgage on his farm, only his skin is beginning to resemble dried parchment, and he is a trifle more cantankerous. [9]
As I have said, the average German daily is made up solely of correspondences--a trifle of it by telegraph, the rest of it by mail. [5]
The state, too, rules according to them, and the wise king who refrains from interfering with them in the smallest trifle can therefore wield the sceptre with mighty power. [10]
They were perfectly round white things a trifle smaller than an English walnut. [5]
He had a round head, snugly-trimmed beard slightly dashed with gray, was short and a trifle stout--King thought dumpy. [4]
Well, when glowing references were made to other grandees on the stage, those grandees always showed a trifle of nervous consciousness--and as these references came frequently, the nervous change of position and attitude were also frequent. [5]
And when he realized that people might not be aware of his happiness, he pitied them with his whole heart and felt a desire somehow to explain to them that all that occupied them was a mere frivolous trifle unworthy of attention. [2]
He walked as rapidly as his legs would carry him, for they were a trifle short for his body; and in due time, as the lamps were flickering, he arrived near Colonel Carvel's large double residence, on Tenth and Locust streets. [9]
They wore their plumed hats, right along, except that whenever one addressed himself directly to the king, he lifted his hat a trifle just as he was beginning his remark. [5]
I have been permitted to trifle with love unpunished so often, that at last I have learnt to under-estimate its power. [10]
All of these performers have a cloth on the ground beside them for the reception of contributions, and even the poorest of the people give a trifle and hope that the sacrifice will be blessed to him. [5]
I knew at once that no trifle had disturbed him. [9]
At the end of the room sat General Sherman, his uniform, as always, a trifle awry. [9]
When did we of the Netherlands ever trifle with vows? [10]
But of course my complacency could hardly get start enough to lift my nose a trifle into the air, before Mr. Bixby would think of something to fetch it down again. [5]
Give me the least trifle in the world to keep me from starving--anything --twenty-five cents! [5]
To them the lauded blind artist was not much more than a costly dish certain to please their guests; yet this, too, was no trifle in social circles which spent small fortunes for a rare fish. [10]
I do not know why I have received his distinction, unless it be that I am a trifle less homely than the other members of the club. [5]
How long I kept this course, and how far I went on, I do not know; but suddenly I stumbled against an ill-placed tree, and sat down on the soaked ground, a trifle out of breath. [4]
However, virtue is its own reward, so I was a barely perceptible trifle ahead in the contest. [5]
M. White' ran it, was about eleven hundred and six miles; consequently her average speed was a trifle over fourteen miles per hour. [5]
Without any question it was painted for a bagnio and it was probably refused because it was a trifle too strong. [5]
My time now is very nearly out, and I give up the trifle that is left to the Judge, to let him set my knees trembling again, if he can. [7]
This last stage is eleven miles, through a pleasanter country, and we make it in a trifle over an hour, going at an exhilarating gait, that raises our spirits out of the Marshy Hope level. [4]
There is an insistent atmosphere of candor and fairness about this book which is engaging at first, then a little burdensome, then a trifle fatiguing, then progressively suspicious, annoying, irritating, and oppressive. [5]
A small inherited income is thought to be a trifle enervating. [11]
Yes; and always in a sweat about some poor little insignificant trifle or other--destruction catch the lot of them, I say! [5]
A trifle haughty, if you like, Monsieur, but I venture to say you will be hopelessly in love with her within the hour. [9]
What a fool I would have been to sell it for such a beggarly trifle! [5]
When he began his talk he hoped to be able to gall them a little and get a trifle of malicious entertainment out of it. [5]
Tom was altering his position every few minutes now, but none of his changes brought repose nor any small trifle of comfort. [5]
He sees that his invention or his painting or his book is--apparently--a trifle better than you yourself can do, therefore why shouldn't you be willing to put your hall-mark on it? [5]
I should call him of medium height, about five feet eight and a half to nine inches, and inclined to be a trifle stout. [4]
When we put him away off in the apse, and set him up for a Goth, and then seat ourselves at a distance, scattered about among the pillars, the whole thing seems to me a trifle unnatural. [4]
That thought inspired her to add another castle to her dream: maybe he would give her a trifle now and then--maybe a dollar, once a month, say; any little thing like that would help, oh, ever so much. [5]
So I had held my breath all that time for such a trifle. [5]
He knew how he was regarded, and perhaps this fact added some trifle of stiffening to his natural dignity, which had been sufficiently stiff in its original state. [5]
The second year, he to have her services, if he wants them, at a trifle under the best price offered her by anybody else. [5]
A human life he held to be a trifle in the big sum of time, and that it was of little moment when a man went, if it seemed his hour. [11]
By the time he had snatched a trifle of breakfast, it was nine o'clock, and the court was ready to begin its sitting. [5]
When the woman had no brains, she might break her life upon a trifle. [11]
The green worm had also seen to about half the celery; and a large flock of apparently perfectly domesticated chickens were roaming over the ground, gossiping in the hot September sun, and picking up any odd trifle that might be left. [4]
I will not go into details; it is not necessary; you will soon be in Hartford, where I have already hired a hall; the admission fee will be but a trifle. [5]
He tried to get a trifle closer to the stove, and the consequence was, he tripped the supporting poker and the stove-door tumbled to the floor. [5]
Even the captain gazed at him with fear, when the Alexandrian threatened to recall all his promises of consideration and mercy if the pirate withheld even the smallest trifle connected with this letter. [10]
At five and forty he was a vital, dominating, dust-coloured man six feet and half an inch in height, weighing a hundred and ninety pounds, and thus a trifle fleshy. [9]
She did not forget the smallest trifle, for before she undertook anything she saw in her mind every detail involved, as if it were already completed. [10]
He charged nothing for his map, and but a trifle for his services: so the Reverend doubled it. [5]
When we had finished the rounds, however, he called for remuneration--said he hoped the gentlemen would give him a trifle in the way of a few piastres (equivalent to a few five cent pieces. [5]
Why did every fibre of her being rebel against receiving even the smallest trifle from the man to whom she would gladly have given the whole world? [10]
He was six feet tall, broad-shouldered, his mustache and hair already turning; his eyebrows were a trifle bushy, and his eyes reminded men of one eternal and highly prized quality--honesty. [9]
No one need fear, though his usual mode of speech was so wanton, that he would trifle with a pure, innocent creature like Eva. [10]
I think the farm probably feeds him, and that the whole of his wages, except a trifle for the priest, go to the support of his family. [5]
They fitted well enough, though a trifle loosely, and they were just a shade loud as to pattern. [5]
The very different elements assembled in her home were united by Barbara's unaffected vivacity and frank, enthusiastic temperament, receptive to the veriest trifle. [10]
For if you do not grant this trifle you shall no more see your dear Virginia; and when the time is ripe you shall go forth to a better land, as the Grande Marquise shall give you carriage. [11]

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