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Sentences ending with trifles

You are right when you accuse me of having laid too much stress upon vain trifles. [10]
Prince Bagration screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, "Is it worth while noticing trifles? [2]
Is this a time to be fastidious concerning trifles? [5]
Her foolish little sentiments are all very well in their way; but business is business, and we can't stop for such trifles. [6]
He moped to school gloomy and sad, and took his flogging, along with Joe Harper, for playing hookey the day before, with the air of one whose heart was busy with heavier woes and wholly dead to trifles. [5]
But," she added, pushing back her dark locks from her high forehead, "I don't understand myself, how, with the mountain of care that now burdens my soul, I can waste even a single word upon such trifles. [10]
The mental habit of diarizing may have some value, even when it sets undue importance upon trifles. [4]
What might have occurred had he stayed is not easy to say--fortunes turn on strange trifles. [11]
His mind was not disturbed by trifles. [4]
Fifteen years old,--he nearly ten years older,--but such things had happened before, and this was no time to stand on trifles. [6]

More example sentences with the word trifles in them

Scorn trifles, lift your aims; do what you are afraid to do. [6]
The countess looked with sad and sternly serious eyes at Prince Andrew when he talked to Natasha and timidly started some artificial conversation about trifles as soon as he looked her way. [2]
My idlest babble, when I am toying with the trifles that fall in my way, if not very full of meaning, is at least musical. [6]
But these expeditions were trifles compared with the present one; for this one comprised among its servants the very greatest among the learned; and besides it was to go to the utterly unvisited regions believed to lie beyond the mighty forest--as we have remarked before. [5]
But there were two or three unnoticed trifles in their by- laws which had the seeds of propagation in them. [5]
We won't grudge trifles, you are welcome to anything--we shall be delighted! [2]
Not entirely: The trifles with which he amused himself in hours of pain and languor bore the mark of his mind. [5]
There were some trifles there--poor useless things--that she would have liked to take away; but that was impossible. [12]
It is impossible to go back to the same conversation, to talk of trifles is awkward, and yet the desire to speak is there and silence seems like affectation. [2]
The Muhammadan merchant, tinman, shoemaker, or vendor of trifles sits cross-legged on the floor and reaches after any article you may want to buy. [5]
Fancy bothering about such trifles now! [2]
Nicholas, with a stern and serious air which showed that now was no time for attending to trifles, went past Natasha and Petya who were trying to tell him something. [2]
I feared inflammation; so in the dead of night I walked back to the village, roused a trader of the Company, got some liniment and other trifles, and arrived again at St. Saviour's before dawn. [11]
Iras is a shrewd woman, and will be glad if she can keep aloof from such trifles during the time which will decide the fate of Cleopatra and of the world. [10]
And this is shown even in the excessive refinement and elaboration of trifles, the minutia of reflection, the keenness of analysis, the unrelenting pursuit of every social topic into subtleties untouched by the older essayists. [4]
Lest my parish should suppose we have forgotten graver matters in these lesser topics, I beg them to drop these trifles and read the following lesson for the day. [6]
It was foolish, she knew, but their presence seemed--in the magnitude which trifles are wont to assume in the night-watches--of late to have poisoned her pleasure. [9]
And yet these sculptured blocks are trifles in size compared with the rough-hewn blocks that form the wide verandah or platform which surrounds the Great Temple. [5]
They read those playful trifles in the solidest terms, and decided without hesitancy that if there had ever been any doubt that Dave Wilson was a pudd'nhead--which there hadn't--this revelation removed that doubt for good and all. [5]
Such vain trifles, Paulina would say, were very well for the heathen, but the Lord looked not at the body but at the heart. [10]
Let him be one whose patients are willing to die in his hands, not one whom they go to for trifles, and leave as soon as they are in danger, and who can say, therefore, that he never loses a patient. [3]
But men embarked on a desperate enterprise are not to be stopped by such trifles, and the problem was solved by sawing out two adjoining boards. [9]
I beg you not to indulge in trifles now, but to help to pack, and tomorrow we must go, go, go!.... [2]
They were, as Mr. Wingfield says, mostly frivolous trifles. [4]
I suppose French morality is not of that straight-laced description which is shocked at trifles. [5]
But life is made up of trifles. [10]
Now do I look like a man who----does my history suggest that I am a man who deals in trifles, contents himself with the narrow horizon that hems in the common herd, sees no further than the end of his nose? [5]
One does not like to be set up for a hero in trifles, in odd moments, and in inconspicuous places. [4]
The following letter is given, not merely on account of her own criticisms on 'Villette,' but because it shows how she had learned to magnify the meaning of trifles, as all do who live a self-contained and solitary life. [14]
But these little instances are trifles indeed, contrasted with the ponderous and dismal German system of piling jumbled compounds together. [5]
I could surprise her with no little delicacies or trifles, delightedly bought with money saved for the purpose. [4]
Do you care for trifles of information? [5]
Nefert's apartment was far more elegantly appointed than the princess's; her mother and Mena had surrounded her with a thousand pretty trifles. [10]
It was not easy to make one's way through the stands and push-carts and the noisy dickering buyers and sellers, who haggled over trifles and chaffed good-naturedly and were strictly intent on their own affairs. [4]
To his great disgust he could find nothing among the hundred objects and trifles that lay about to justify suspicion, till, just as he was leaving the room, he noticed in a basket near the writing-table some discarded tablets. [10]
In the other departments of the magazine will be found poetry, tales, and other frothy trifles, and to these the reader can turn for relaxation from time to time, and thus guard against overstraining the powers of his mind. [5]
The light and daring touch of her raillery Carmen herself might have envied, and the spirit in which she handled the trifles and personal gossip tossed to the surface, like the bubbles on the champagne. [4]
The more lovable Cleopatra is, the more surely every one prizes a position near her person above aught else, especially such trifles as law and justice. [10]
The high prices charged for trifles were eloquent of high freights and bewildering distances of freightage. [5]
We're short of chairs here, among other trifles, but if you'll do me the favour to sit upon the bed--' 'What can we do for you? [12]
By this time, certain vans had arrived for the conveyance of the goods, and divers strong men in caps were balancing chests of drawers and other trifles of that nature upon their heads, and performing muscular feats which heightened their complexions considerably. [12]
He was not certain of some trifles of etiquette; but he and Sir William were alone, and he followed his instincts. [11]
It will all be wasted on trifles. [2]
It must not be imagined from this, however, that the conversation was about trifles. [4]
When travelers can be entertained by trifles of this kind it shows that there is an absence of more serious amusement. [4]
When I look back on all the vain trifles that my father had to care for, I feel quite giddy. [10]
He knew that at the Miner's Restaurant he could get a plate of beans and a piece of bread for ten cents; or a fish-ball and some few trifles, but they gave "no bread with one fish-ball" there. [5]
To Damascus, years are only moments, decades are only flitting trifles of time. [5]
Beauty and strength are not empty trifles, and none but a fool gives noble gifts to another, only in order to throw them away. [10]
We sat there an hour, with chattering teeth and quivering bodies, and quarreled over all sorts of trifles, but gave most of our attention to abusing each other for the stupidity of deserting the railway-track. [5]
No, but I am not praying for trifles now," he thought as he put his pipe down in a corner, and folding his hands placed himself before the icon. [2]
Kiss me once again, and go to thy trifles and amusements; for my malady distresseth me. [5]
We French are a people of sentiments and ideas; we make idols of trifles, and we die for fancies. [11]

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