How To Use A trifle In A Sentence
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If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time?
Cops and Robbers
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As for the remaining four songs, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea In The Sahara' are doomy ciphers, the former possibly about marriage, the latter open to a handful of interpretations, none of them exactly upbeat, while 'Synchronicity I' is a trifle explaining the title concept and the monster hit 'Every Breath You Take', is ostensibly a trite love song with it's icy and obsessive core just barely concealed.
Synchronicity
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His background is a trifle dubious, to say the least.
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He was cheered to the echo and, a trifle remarkably, joyously, and continually, waved to the thousands who were acclaiming him.
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I'd probably sprinkle them on top of a trifle if I ate trifles.
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My fellow writers if my words have left you feeling a trifle depressed and desolate, cheer up.
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Try turning the key a trifle .
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As a photographer, he'd found both locations just a trifle disappointing.
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While I did not begrudge the President his due recognition, this was a trifle fulsome.
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Disappointment queerly stirring her, she opened her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him.
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Is that what you call overstepping the mark a trifle?
Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
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He was a gay, mad young dog, grandly careless of his largess, fearless as a lion's whelp, lithe and beautiful as a leopard, and mad, a trifle mad of the deviltries and whimsies that tickled in that fine brain of his.
CHAPTER XIII
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'Order my clothing to be returned to me, let them take me in a telega as far as the high-road, and give me a trifle of money.'
Desperate
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Considering rods & cones together and being a trifle inexact, the resolution is about 1 arcmin at the fovea, falling to around 5 arcmin at around 25° radius, and then shallowly falling further to around 10 arcmin at 60°.
MachineMachine (formerly 'The Huge Entity')
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When a ham is roasting in the oven with a bit of sherry poured over it, or a trifle, for goodness' sake, has a bit of sherry in it, is sherry not a cooking condiment?
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Arrange in the bottom of a trifle bowl and scatter over the raspberries.
The Sun
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Perhaps Elizabeth LeCompte found Francesco Cavalli's 1641 baroque opus, La Didone, a trifle bloodless-she's corrected that hematic imbalance by splicing the opera with scenes from the 1965 B-flick Planet of the Vampires.
Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
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The beast in question was a trifle frisky in the sale ring and confined Aunty Pam behind the guard rail.
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I must admit I was getting a trifle worried but then I met them.
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My rod, I might explain, was the trolling or sea fishing version of a capital greenheart portmanteau rod, to which I had treated myself in hopes of use in Canadian waters, and was a stiff little pole (in this form) of a trifle over 9 ft.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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The decline of the grain trade feels a trifle dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unsurprisingly, perhaps, terrestrial transport can seem a trifle mundane.
Times, Sunday Times
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By producing, with the aid of the electrical generator contained in this car, an enormous charge of electricity, Mr. Edison was able to counterbalance, and a trifle more than counterbalance, the attraction of the earth, and thus cause the car to fly off from the earth as an electrified pithball flies from the prime conductor.
Edison's Conquest of Mars
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It seems 100 million won is a trifle as the value system of money is shaken and the social function of money is faltering in the raging Lotto syndrome.
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After 25 years covering squillions of very similar speeches, you will forgive me for being a trifle sceptical.
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Yet scarcely a hint of this hugely important story is contained in the Oxburgh report, which simply glosses it over, hoping to appease critics by throwing in a few vaguely critical comments about how Jones and his team were a trifle "disorganised" in archiving their data.
British Blogs
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The plan is to look a trifle less haggish come summer.
And we have --
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Those travellers who have a guard from the king or aumil (governor), or a cheprasse with them, do not pay anything for this attendance; others give them a trifle for their services, according as the distance is greater or less.
A Woman's Journey Round the World
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You should have abandoned the praetexta, it's just a trifle too much purple.
Fortune's Favorites
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I understand that the sight of a pig's foot on the conveyor belt at the checkout line can be a trifle jarring, especially when contrasted with food “products” such as fruit roll-ups, but the essential pigginess—and footiness—of the item serve to remind one of the humble origins of the stuff we put in our mouths.
What Do You Mean, You Don't Sell Pigs Feet?
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We were all a trifle tense; I started, Miss Minton let out a little scream, and Sethos swore.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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The Matsuzaka beef sirloin is exquisite, although the belly may be a trifle too fatty for some, as it is marbled in fat.
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The purfling is a trifle wider, but narrower than that afterwards used.
The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
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I had heard of the famous tapestries of Guermantes, I could see them, mediaeval and blue, a trifle coarse, detach themselves like a floating cloud from the legendary, amaranthine name at the foot of the ancient forest in which
The Guermantes Way
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I mumbled yes, indeed, so it would be; then I noticed that she was looking at me a trifle arch, and cudgelled my wits to think why - she couldn't be wanting to get off with me, not with Canning there - and then her last words sank in, my legs went weak, and I believe I absolutely said, "Hey?
Fiancée
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It is a travesty of a result but we play with style and it's a trifle early to worry yet.
The Sun
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Feeling a trifle fragmented by myself, I ask how modern woman can put herself back together.
Times, Sunday Times
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Al-f-u-r-d" was escorted home then to the cellar where the seance was a trifle more animated than usual, at least "Al-f-u-r-d's" cries so denoted.
Watch Yourself Go By
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`It's the milk of human kindness,' he explained, a trifle vaingloriously.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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If he'll only pay a trifle of money for me, and give me a few odd hundreds to begin with, I'll hold him quit of all else, so he'll but quit me of that wizen little stump. '
Camilla
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Her ardor was a trifle dampened by his voice, but she found new thrills in the gas-stove, a most dramatic instrument to play.
We Can't Have Everything
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What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable?
Times, Sunday Times
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I'll have just a trifle of the dessert.
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A trifle, but it was warm, heartsome: he had put the world on trial, you know, and he was not very far from death.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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If you should choose to lay out a trifle of twenty pieces upon their comfort, I shall see that their food is such as mayhap many of them never got at their own tables.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
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What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable?
Times, Sunday Times
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a trifle smaller
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A TriFlex controller uses high-speed buffers to manage data flow between the buses.
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The inlay was a trifle scuffed from the axe's late use.
A Crown of Swords
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Feeling a trifle fragmented by myself, I ask how modern woman can put herself back together.
Times, Sunday Times
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The decline of the grain trade feels a trifle dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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A trifle is a very nice thing to have after a big dinner, for although it is quite rich and evil, it feels light going down.
Toast:
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The next development was custom-made bottles and it is here that one gets a trifle suspicious of the producer's intentions.
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But now he no longer came, and Judith, for all her deliberate flow of spirits, did not quite convince the watchful eyes of Leander’s lady — the postmistress was a trifle too cheerful.
Judith of the Plains
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Arrange in the bottom of a trifle bowl and scatter over the raspberries.
The Sun
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And the schoolmaster came out smiling, holding a pipe which was a good deal taller than I, held out his hand, and asked me to come in, gave me coffee at once, and expressed the profoundest contempt for the peasant who had charged two rigsdaler for such a trifle, and then left me in the road.
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
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They made a ring, "moseyed" into it, and no cool man -- one who had the least sympathy for his tabernacle -- would have taken the knocks, kicks, bites, gougings, battings, etc., that were given and received by those two duelists for a trifle.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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The more downbeat and slight Lloyd, meanwhile, is the family's lodger, who, while a trifle dozy, at least brings some money into the house courtesy of his job at a local factory.
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And is it, she thought, for a trifler such as this, so unmeaning, so unfeeling, I have risked my whole of hope and happiness?
Camilla
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What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable?
Times, Sunday Times
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The cuisinier gascon uses the basic mixtures much less than do other eighteenth-century cooks, considering them a trifle old-fashioned: “I will not speak at all of jus, coulis, bouillon, essence, and all those old liaisons which are made; they are found in the book of Martialot [sic] in his old manuscripts [sic].”
Savoring The Past
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There was a bright moon and the weather was a trifle cold.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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I must confess I felt a trifle guilty about your lonely watch: nothing to report? I thought as much.
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As a normal thing, when he lost heat through the slow process of radiation-and a trifle through kero foam lined bootsoles-the latter demand was much the greater.
The Clique
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Isn't the meat a trifle tough?
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My billet is a shelf space half a meter wide, half a meter deep, and just a trifle longer than I am-with other females brushing my elbows on each side of me.
Podkayne Of Mars
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Agreeing with the five years in office rule, he admits to feeling a trifle stale in the last few terms.
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Before the strike in the Hallelujah the group calling themselves Rock City had been working Kaiser Wilhelm node behind Ceres in orbit; at the good news they moved, speeding up a trifle and passing in-orbit of Ceres, a ragtag caravan nudged through the sky by scooters, chemical rocket engines, jato units, and faith.
The Rolling Stones
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Perhaps a trifle too 'shiny' but a fecks sight better than the job Jeff Lynne (shudder) would have done!
Word Magazine -
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Arrange in the bottom of a trifle bowl and scatter over the raspberries.
The Sun
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Do not think music is very important; regard it as a trifle, an entertainment, a foolish leisure-time activity, or simply something they are not interested in.
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Installing the software is a trifle, though using it isn't immediately a piece of cake.
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Fortunately – for we were nine months in arrear of pay – money was so scarce that a trifle of ready money produced a great deal.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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Clad as usual modestly - a violet woolen top and black sports pants, no bijouterie or charms - she seems a trifle mundane; it's her face that shows it all: deep down she's walking on air.
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These good lady players, or some of them, are attiring themselves in these days as I like to see lady golfers attired, that is to say, there is evidence that they think a trifle less of fashion and dainty appearance than they do of security, comfort, and freedom of limb and muscle.
The Complete Golfer
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It is a travesty of a result but we play with style and it's a trifle early to worry yet.
The Sun
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The decline of the grain trade feels a trifle dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would have given my life willingly for what you call a trifle, sir," said the marquis, with a bow to Osra.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
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Nigel allowed himself the thinnest of smiles and said in the driest of voices: `Malcolm can be a trifle headstrong sometimes.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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When it came to the clarinet family, one must admit that the basset horn does sound a trifle canine, but as with flutes and saxophones, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone or bass always flowed on in logical order.
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Crunchy, rattling beats are generic and hollow, the plaintive horns a trifle saccharine, and the piano motifs, dreamy and slender, have something distinctly Walt Disney about them.
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Nigel allowed himself the thinnest of smiles and said in the driest of voices: `Malcolm can be a trifle headstrong sometimes.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Next up is a trifle, only this one is made with a cooked fruit compote and - shock!
Times, Sunday Times
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If the eminent doctor's manner appears a trifle inurbane of our tastes, we must bear in mind that the doctor may be from a place, or a stratum, not so meticulous in these matters.
The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein
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During the monsoons the ferries stop plying and the Gateway looks a trifle forlorn without the seething crowds that normally sit around it, shooting the breeze when the weather is gentler.
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She inbreathed sharply, then her eyes narrowed a trifle.
Midnight
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There is perhaps something a trifle counterintuitive about all this.
The Times Literary Supplement
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On a tight slalom course, we found it stable under power but a trifle squirrelly under hard braking into a turn.
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Feeling a trifle fragmented by myself, I ask how modern woman can put herself back together.
Times, Sunday Times
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It cost me but a trifle.
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When he last looked at it he noticed that the fastening was a trifle slack and, though he handed the trinket back, he told her distinctly that she was not to wear it till it had been either to Tiffany's or Starr's.
The House in the Mist
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The Russian peasant at once invites me to his menzil in the caravansarai; and although he looks, if anything, a trifle more indifferent about personal cleanliness than either a Turkish or Persian peasant, I have no alternative but to accept his well-meant invitation.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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The glance was a trifle too long, a shade too considerative.
Chapter 45
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As he stalked away, it must be admitted that Jerry displayed pride in himself, his gait being a trifle stiff-legged, the cocking of his head back over his shoulder at the whining wild-dog having all the articulateness of: Well, I guess I gave you enough this time.
CHAPTER III
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The eyelids are sabled with kohl, and such other paints, oils, varnishes and dyestuffs are used as the fair one -- who is a trifle dark, by the way -- may have proved for herself, or accepted on the superior judgment of her European sisters.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
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At the bottom of his heart, he was a trifle hebetated.
Theresa Raquin
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This number being a trifle, Tom runs his prad at a gap in the fence by the wood-side; the old nag goes well at it, but stops short at the critical moment, and, instead of taking the ditch, bolts and wheels round.
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
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The decline of the grain trade feels a trifle dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is perhaps something a trifle counterintuitive about all this.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
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It is but a trifle that Sauron fancies, and an earnest of your good will.
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But good judges have assured me that there was much that was factitious in the manner of this eminent comedian, and that his vivacity was a trifle mechanical.
The Théâtre Francais
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METHOD 1.'Put half of each tin of fruit in a trifle bowl with a bit of the juice.
The Sun
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That was a trifle unexpected, but Rossmayne was a man of honour and good sense.
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But right now, the accumulation of broken eggshells is a trifle messy!
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(You should also remember that huge swathes of the population are on housing benefits of one sort or another, so the numberplate bill may be a trifle misleading).
Moving up the table
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Their gush was a trifle nauseating; their mean worship of money gave one a shiver, and the relish with which they described their hero's exploits would have been comic were it not for the before-mentioned nausea.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
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He hadn't raised his voice, but just for a moment the cool nil admirari air had slipped a trifle.
THE NUMBERS
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She seemed a trifle anxious.
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METHOD 1.'Put half of each tin of fruit in a trifle bowl with a bit of the juice.
The Sun
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Proceeding there in company with my eldest brother-in-law, a plate-layer and surfaceman on the Northern (he being uncertain about the Derby winner for that year), I was told by the person for a trifle of two shillings that I was soon to cross water and to meet many strange adventures.
Ruggles of Red Gap
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The people of St Petersburg considered the Muscovites to be a trifle primitive, while the citizens of Moscow regarded St Petersburg society as slightly alien and vaguely suspect.
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'Don't think any one will see it there,' he said, as he cut the candle down a trifle and lit it cautiously with a sputtering sulphur match, part of the spoil from the Turkish sentry.
On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
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He was just a trifle too friendly for my liking.
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He unbreeched it and spun the cylinder with his thumb and spilled the contents into his palm -- four loaded shells, suety and slick with grease, and one that had been recently fired; and it was discolored and flattened a trifle.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
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It seems a trifle self-indulgent to enjoy such esoteric pleasure in the midst of so much want.
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V-shaped openings in front a trifle too deep; many, in their endeavours to make their loose trousers still more rakish, wore them in too flowing a manner over their feet, and still more, in their anxiety not to spoil the set of their jumpers, carried no 'pusser's daggers,' or knives, attached to their lanyards.
Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
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The speakers are fine for background music, though sound a trifle tinny during an HD action film.
Times, Sunday Times
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This, I say, is that which makes them sell eternity for a song, give away their souls for a trifle, and turn their backs upon glory and immortality, and God himself, under the pinch of any present pain, or the bewitchery of some present pleasure.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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In addition, the young butler had stored away certain demijohns, holding half a dozen gallons each, of excellent “tafia,” a sugared brandy a trifle more pronounced in taste than the national beiju.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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This to me seems a trifle odd, but it is less confusing if you understand the reasons for the argument.
Take Care of Your Skin
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Graves is quietly incisive and commanding as the relatively humane Dr. Treves, but Burton is a trifle too actressy even for an actress portraying an actress.
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La Didone, a trifle bloodless-she's corrected that hematic imbalance by splicing the opera with scenes from the 1965 B-flick
Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
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'A trifle more of that man,'he would say,'and I shall explode.'.
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Concerning "Flocci-nauci-what-d'ye-call-'em-ists," Canon Ainger has the following interesting note: "'Flocci, nauci' is the beginning of a rule in the old Latin grammars, containing a list of words signifying 'of no account,' _floccus_ being a lock of wool, and _naucus_ a trifle.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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Keep it in the fridge and use as necessary, finally ending up with the gingered sherry, which you can use in a trifle or stir-fry.
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In fact, they considered convicts to be only a more expensive kind of labouring cattle, and on account of their not being able to live upon grass, a trifle less worthy than working bullocks.
Ralph Rashleigh
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Mr. Hamn responded at once to the widow's call, his adjacence giving him the advantage of Dr. Hamilton, of whom he was a trifle jealous.
The Conqueror
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The sword swished frightfully through the air, and inflicted on the Count’s neck a wound slight indeed, but a trifle deeper than the barely visible scratch which had been given to the others.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Good morning, Watson! I must confess I felt a trifle guilty about your lonely watch: nothing to report?
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And it is noticeable that busy men, coming to art for pleasure when they are too weary for looking, listening, or thinking, so often prefer the sensation-novel, the music-hall song, and such painting as is but a costlier kind of oleograph; treating all other art as humbug, and art in general as a trifle wherewith to wile away a lazy moment, a trifle about which every man _can know what he likes best_.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life
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And, even if the eerily atmospheric music is a trifle intrusive, the design recreates the glaucous strangeness of the fjords.
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There was a bright moon and the weather was a trifle cold.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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And I must confess to being a trifle apprehensive in the days leading up to the concert.
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Yorkshire pudding, snow peas topped with sliced almonds, bib lettuce with Roquefort dressing and probably a trifle for dessert.
CORMORANT
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There are different rooms for the different sexes: the accommodations are good, and the expence is a trifle.
Travels through France and Italy
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In Elizabethan times a trifle was made with syllabub (a mixture of fresh milk and sweet wine), Later followed the ‘proper’ custard made with double cream and eggs.
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Privately, he thought he had been a trifle hard on the lad, and but for his obstinacy -- which he called firmness -- he would have recalled the prodigal.
The Opal Serpent
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This forktail is a trifle larger than a wagtail, and its tail is over 6 inches in length.
Birds of the Indian Hills
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Suffice it to say that when you have been bombarded with a full-colour ad for boerewors but are then served a solitary cocktail sausage, you tend to feel a trifle disappointed.
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Briefed, de-briefed, hungry, sweated and deodorised, we waited for the big man to come, happy about the special access we were granted, yet a trifle upset that so many media people were waiting outside in the sun, hoping to do their jobs.
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My colourman takes his bill out in drawings, and I think owes me a trifle.
The Newcomes
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It was lovely going to Safed, if a trifle disorientating.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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He was fairly short, a trifle rotund, with dark penetrating eyes that had a way of roving mercurially over objects under surveillance.
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On a tight slalom course, we found it stable under power but a trifle squirrelly under hard braking into a turn.
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I regret to say that at the present time the tendency is a trifle different.
Free Enterprise
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Even the tradespeople will be a trifle the better.
Far Above Rubies
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Sometimes he really is a trifler, but for some things he is very reliable.
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Austen's fictional Henry Cecil spends £18000 a year (a rather fabulous sum) from a total capital of less than £900, and so is "able to save but a trifle".
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Unable to hang on as close in the eye of the wind as formerly, he proceeded to slack his sheet a trifle and to ease off a bit, in order to outfoot me.
DEMETRIOS CONTOS
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This larghetto in A flat is a trifle too ornamental for my taste, mellifluous and serene as it is.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Indeed Florio, in his dictionary of 1598, bracketed the two terms when he wrote: ‘a kinde of clouted cream called a foole or a trifle.’
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Now, I know we "environmentalists" can come across a trifle earnest at times, but this resident's self-centeredness will remain a shining example of how the U.S. leads the world in the blind overconsumption of resources.
No Wonder We Are Thought Profligate
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The sanctum was a trifle larger than the outer room, but almost equally bare; half-a-dozen deed-boxes were piled up in one corner.
Australia Felix
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It sounded a trifle more impressive than my current surroundings, which featured several soldiers playing at chuck-a-luck on the floor, a flea-ridden mongrel asleep by the fire, and a strong smell of hops.
Dragonfly in Amber
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It always seems a trifle unfair that it's high art that gets it in the neck for being intellectually elitist and exclusive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Finnish landlord gave me to understand, by holding up his fore-finger, and pronouncing the word "_üx_," that I was to pay one _rigsdaler_ (about 26 cents), for our entertainment, and was overcome with grateful surprise when I added a trifle more.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland
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This may seem a trifle unenterprising, but you are gaining exposure while not losing your shirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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He heard his voice issuing coolly, a trifle ironically.
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Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
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caitiff," even by a voice somewhat treble and a trifle trembling, left me every reason in the world to be surprised, annoyed and grieved.
The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive
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For his pains he had a flash of white teeth in a smile that recalled his first acquaintance with Kitty, the sort of smile one would give to a "nice boy" when his manoeuvres were a trifle obvious.
Judith of the Plains
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Jack was a kind, honest fellow, though rather rather old-fashioned, and just a trifle heavy in hand.
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METHOD 1.'Put half of each tin of fruit in a trifle bowl with a bit of the juice.
The Sun
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Burdened vine" seems a trifle obscure -- why _burdened vine_?
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide
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His frame a trifle stouter than when we last saw him, but still supple and firm; the set of the shoulders, the taper of the body to the waist, the keen but passive face, the poise of the whole figure was that of one who, tasting of the goodness of life, had not gormandized thereon.
The Cow Puncher
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Frenchman — a trifle of flotsam from a mid-ocean wreck and landed to grow up among the farmer-sailormen of the coast of Maine.
The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London
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The wine has made him a trifle tipsy.
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Her hullo was a trifle awkward, but Philip didn't seem to notice.
Last April Fair
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This to me seems a trifle odd, but it is less confusing if you understand the reasons for the argument.
Take Care of Your Skin
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Though the steels is a bit twisted, and the stuff a trifle tore,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893
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Garden parties had been heard of, were a trifle repetitional, and even dull, but at this one there was real music and real dancing, and clever entertainments were given at intervals in a green-embowered little theatre, erected for the occasion.
The Shuttle
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a Frenchman — a trifle of flotsam from a mid-ocean wreck and landed to grow up among the farmer-sailormen of the coast of Maine.
CHAPTER XVIII
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He plied me with questions, amid suggestions about you, till I was within a trifle of putting 'my finger in the pipy o' 'im.'
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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One recommends this Cazaio rather to the spinners of romance: with his morality -- a trifle buccaneerish on occasion -- once discreetly palliated, history affords few heroes more instantly taking to the fancy ....
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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The bountiful extras include a great booklet, alternate edits, audio commentaries, a trifle of an animated homage by Michel Gondry and especially a TV chat about Vigo between Francois Truffaut and a pompously self-important Eric Rohmer.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: What's The Best Sitcom On Thursday Nights?
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a trifle assertive and what he called flamboyant in their conversation, they nevertheless, as a rule, meant just what they said.
The Gold Trail
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There is perhaps something a trifle counterintuitive about all this.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This to me seems a trifle odd, but it is less confusing if you understand the reasons for the argument.
Take Care of Your Skin
