How To Use Trifle In A Sentence

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
In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
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
His background is a trifle dubious, to say the least.
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return. The Essays

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My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time.
Eat In nearby Boshum, the Millstream's millstream.com £50 tasting menu features roquefort mousse with pickled pears, smoked haddock and leek ravioli, summer fruit and elderflower trifle. Five great beach weekends
He was cheered to the echo and, a trifle remarkably, joyously, and continually, waved to the thousands who were acclaiming him.
There were cold meats of every kind, huge bowls of mixed salads, large desserts, trifles, jellies tarts and mince pies, and also some very interesting looking hors d' oeuvres.
The next year he produced only a few medical trifles, but in 1557 he brought out two other scientific works which he characterizes as admirable -- one the _Ars parva curandi_, and the other a treatise _De Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
I'd probably sprinkle them on top of a trifle if I ate trifles.
This is a mere trifle compared to the average 500,000 price of buying a flat in our metropolis. The Sun
Important nations are feared, respected, and rarely trifled with.
They are triflers with God, with one another and with their own souls.
My fellow writers if my words have left you feeling a trifle depressed and desolate, cheer up.
Good companies prevent their servers from forwarding mail that do not originate from their clients, but more negligent companies do not pay attention to such trifles.
Try turning the key a trifle .
As a photographer, he'd found both locations just a trifle disappointing.
Now passing from these courtly trifles, let vs talke of our scholastical toyes, that is of the Grammaticall versifying of the Greeks and Latines and see whether it might be reduced into our English arte or no. The Arte of English Poesie
He had no money to spare on trifles.
My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
While I did not begrudge the President his due recognition, this was a trifle fulsome.
How can we trifle away our lives.
Disappointment queerly stirring her, she opened her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him.
Is that what you call overstepping the mark a trifle? Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
There was little frolic left in them when night came; they were short-spoken, prone to grow fierce over trifles. The Desert Valley
I hate that they should be worried about trifles.
It was My Lady -- formerly My Lady -- clad in embroidered short Spanish jacket, tightish velvet pantaloons, booted to the knees, pulled down upon her yellow hair a black soft hat, and hanging from the just-revealed belt around her slender waist, a revolver trifle. Desert Dust
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
'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
In the past, the President notoriously spent immense amounts of time poring over the, leading one exasperated congressman to describe her as a "fussbudget" (defined by the American Heritage dictionary as a "person who fusses over trifles. Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
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')
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?
But my table companions were disappointed when it came to dessert and they found that the trifle had been completely gobbled up by some greedy so-and-sos who were there earlier in the evening.
His antiquarian temperament has made him a greater snapper-up of unconsidered trifles of archaeology, architecture and literature.
I willingly grant to you that some women are so wealthy, placed in situations requiring so much representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
Arrange in the bottom of a trifle bowl and scatter over the raspberries. The Sun
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
Slice the cake and use to line the base and half way up the sides of a glass trifle bowl. Times, Sunday Times
In a place to themselves were other treasures, a daguerreotype of his mother, a capacious huswife that Sairy had made and stocked for him, the little box of paper "to write home on" that had been Tom's present, various trifles that the three had agreed might come in handy. The Long Roll
There are infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities, haecceities, which no one can perceive without a Lynceus whose eyes could look through a stone wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness that never were. In Praise of Folly
The beast in question was a trifle frisky in the sale ring and confined Aunty Pam behind the guard rail.
I must admit I was getting a trifle worried but then I met them.
It was easier when the body politic watched the jiggling mammaries on TV and drank beer by the caseload to forget their domestic trifles, but that darn internet went from being a cybernetic version of the Home Shopping Network for fatasses incapable of bestirring themselves beyond their own barcalounger, to something that could actually be used to communicate concepts requiring critical thinking and studied responses. Firedoglake » It’s High Time for Some Truth
‘We should not trifle with this final opportunity of achieving peace,’ Wickremesinghe said.
What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves, and triflers of both sexes, might be advantageously spared!
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
The decline of the grain trade feels a trifle dull. Times, Sunday Times
Pour the custard over the trifle when jelly is set. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, terrestrial transport can seem a trifle mundane. Times, Sunday Times
She has a certain versatility that enables her to use with effect a style of narration peculiar to herself, which may be called a murmuring of delicate emotional trifles, the particular gift of those to whom the social sympathies of a peaceful time are as daily food. A Pair of Blue Eyes
A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
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
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.
After 25 years covering squillions of very similar speeches, you will forgive me for being a trifle sceptical.
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
The plan is to look a trifle less haggish come summer. And we have --
‘When you get older trifles of that kind will not trouble you’, I remarked.
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
Nevertheless, the crowd didn't seem to mind these trifles too much as they danced and sang in tune to the band's peppy, upbeat funk-rock.
Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for. Civics: as Applied Sociology
You should have abandoned the praetexta, it's just a trifle too much purple. Fortune's Favorites
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?
We were all a trifle tense; I started, Miss Minton let out a little scream, and Sethos swore. LORD OF THE SILENT
The Matsuzaka beef sirloin is exquisite, although the belly may be a trifle too fatty for some, as it is marbled in fat.
The purfling is a trifle wider, but narrower than that afterwards used. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
Slice the cake and use to line the base and half way up the sides of a glass trifle bowl. Times, Sunday Times
If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence? A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The practising solicitor is constantly concerned with what some people would consider to be trifles. Archive 2009-04-01
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
No, as such she has seen I could resist her; nor yet the light trifler of a spring or two, neglected when no longer a novelty; no, no! — it is a companion for ever, it is a solace for every care, it is a bosom friend through every period of life that I seek in Miss Beverley! Cecilia
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
Just as a solitary sailor will beguile the tedium of empty days at sea by a kind of cribbage, in which the left hand plays against the right, so I laid odds for and against myself on such trifles as these, and even went so far as to keep an account of my successes and my failures. The Quest of the Simple Life
Recently the young couple have continual arguments with each other for trifles.
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
Presumably the Australian Strategic Policy Institute doesn't take into account such trifles when determining an organisation's credibility.
It appears that you have finally realized the importance of trifles, but you have not yet learned what to do with them.
It is a travesty of a result but we play with style and it's a trifle early to worry yet. The Sun
Feeling a trifle fragmented by myself, I ask how modern woman can put herself back together. Times, Sunday Times
But it may perhaps have been a matter almost of indifference to him, till you undertook its defence; then make it of consequence by rising in eagerness, in proportion to the insignificance of your object; if he can draw consequences, this will be an excellent lesson: if you are so tender of blame in the veriest trifles, how impeachable must you be in matters of importance! Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
Excuse me; Ce n'est pas grave = It's nothing; la brocante (f) = flea market; la bricole (f) = trifle, trinket; le potager (m) = vegetable garden; la mère (f) = mother French Word-A-Day:
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
It's silly to quarrel over trifles.
Relaxation in trifles is often the beginning of moral benumbment. The Epistles of St. Peter
`It's the milk of human kindness,' he explained, a trifle vaingloriously. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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
Sherry, brandy, and Marsala add flavour and an alcoholic kick to creamy puddings such as trifle, tiramisu, zabaglione, and egg nog.
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
On the evening before the tragedy came to light -- trifles are always remembered after the catastrophe -- a boy, returning along the margin of the mere, passed him by seated on a prostrate trunk of a tree, under the "bield" of a rock, counting silver money. Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
The very peak of excitement here is seeing somebody make a mess of a sponge trifle. Times, Sunday Times
If you drive having had one spoonful too many of sherry trifle, they take away your licence. The Sun
A plump, red-faced man is demanding a third helping of sherry trifle. The Sun
What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable? Times, Sunday Times
I'll have just a trifle of the dessert.
My trifle, in particular, was made with conspicuously fresh ingredients, and the attention made it a treat.
For the Christmas trifle, I use a mixture of frozen strawberries, raspberries and tayberries, thickened with cornstarch and sugar for the fruit component of the trifle with other ingredients. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
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
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
Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics which concern only the interests of eternity; the men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a commonplace censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
I open the fridge for some swotty blueberries and there, twinkling at me, is the perfect, central-casting trifle. Times, Sunday Times
What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable? Times, Sunday Times
The fact that he'd originally wanted a freeze was a mere trifle. Times, Sunday Times
The leftovers tasted great, but each time we removed the trifle from the fridge the layers had sunk further, as the ladyfingers absorbed more of the sauce and cream, which had additionally deflated, thereby creating a sunken, lopsided look. Blueberry Lemon Tiramisu Trifle
a trifle smaller
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I trifle with it if I am not hungry, and drink it when I am.
For dessert we shared a rather wonderful tiramisu - a traditional Italian trifle.
The inlay was a trifle scuffed from the axe's late use. A Crown of Swords
Which, like as in the first years of their childhood they make much and be fond and proud of such ornaments, so when they be a little more grown in years and discretion, perceiving that none but children do wear such toys and trifles, they lay them away even of their own shamefastness, without any bidding of their parents, even as our children when they wax big, do caste away nuts, brooches and dolls. English Literature for Boys and Girls
He says, moreover, that all goods carried from the said islands are mere trifles, from which the land derives no profit -- such as porcelains, escritoires, caskets, fans, and parasols, all flimsy and very unprofitable. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Feeling a trifle fragmented by myself, I ask how modern woman can put herself back together. Times, Sunday Times
The decline of the grain trade feels a trifle dull. Times, Sunday Times
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:
Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles, any coldness or imbecility, or, in short, any want of that large, flowing, and magnanimous deportment, which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall. XII. Essays. Manners. 1844
Whether it comes as a traditional bowl of fruit and Jersey cream or a rich trifle, vivid ice cream or cool cheesecake, the combination is an unmissable part of the British summer.
He simply doesn't have time to trifle with losers.
The trifle with rhubarb and blood orange with saffron cake was superb. Times, Sunday Times
A winner with strawberries, trifle and poached fruit, but also good in a surprising number of savoury recipes. Times, Sunday Times
The tendency to take summary vengeance, called vendetta, still exists in the villages; where the people having no social amusements, nothing to read, nor any other resource than cards during the winter nights, are apt to quarrel over trifles; which, fanned by their local petty jealousies, assisted often by the generous nature of their wine, ripen into deadly feuds. Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads
The next development was custom-made bottles and it is here that one gets a trifle suspicious of the producer's intentions.
Slice the cake and use to line the base and half way up the sides of a glass trifle bowl. Times, Sunday Times
I think I love the names of trifles, possets, fools and syllabubs more than I enjoy eating them.
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
While my eye was immediately drawn to the Belgian dark chocolate and chilli cheesecake, I couldn't resist my childhood favourite of trifle, which came in raspberry, ginger and amaretto flavour.
The fact that he'd originally wanted a freeze was a mere trifle. Times, Sunday Times
He knew that the minutest trifle must not escape his attention, or the forfeit might be his life. The Lords of the Wild A Story of the Old New York Border
You owe me big time and, unlike Tony the weeny ding-aling, I am no man to trifle with. FLOATING CITY
Sisters contended about silly trifles.
Arrange in the bottom of a trifle bowl and scatter over the raspberries. The Sun
I brought a few trifles back from India - bits of jewellery and material mainly.
Choices include rump steak, herby roasting potatoes and raspberry and sherry trifle. The Sun
Một bài học nhanh chóng Latin: flocci có nguồn gốc từ floccus, nghĩa là một búi lông cừu và nguồn gốc của từ tiếng Anh như làm thành từng cục, nhưng ẩn dụ trong một cái gì đó tầm thường; pili tương tự Latin là số nhiều của pilus, một sợi tóc, mà chúng tôi có được thừa kế trong các từ như thuốc làm rụng lông, nhưng mà trong tiếng Latin có thể có nghĩa là một whit, jot, trifle hoặc nói chung cái gì đó không đáng kể; nihili là từ nihil, không có gì, như trong các từ như thuyết hư vô và tiêu diệt; nauci chỉ có nghĩa là vô giá trị. nguồn Ideonexus.com »2005» tháng bảy
Ice cream for the children, shared apple and blackberry crumble for my wife and me, while my parents shared a sherry and raspberry trifle.
Pour the custard over the trifle when jelly is set. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
He is not a person to trifle with.
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
We must not trifle with the people's trust by foot-dragging.
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
He is not an insignificant trifler, whose object it is to raise a laugh at his own expense, or that of any other. Count Robert of Paris
I think the love of trifle came only after I was allowed to drink alcohol and I hoed in after a few glasses of chardonnay when my weird, idiosyncratic eating behaviour slipped for a bit. Rum Balls and The Box « Write Anything
This trifle developed itself into a serious problem.
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.
As the drilling proceeded, he seemed to wax exceedingly wroth over trifles lung power in proportion.
While our Christmas menu includes turkey, ham, trifle and pav, it also incorporates the dishes that link back to our Croatian heritage.
Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine. Plutarch's Morals
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
What do you have to do to a trifle to make it so unpalatable? Times, Sunday Times
While it's cooking, finish the trifle and make the pâté. Times, Sunday Times
It is highly unlikely that they would allow any internal or external factor to trifle with their unity or a united platform to promote and preserve their interests.
Then came trifle, ratafia biscuits, and a baked custard dusted with cinnamon, and three types of cheeses and grapes to finish. The Dressmaker
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues. Aristotle
'Yes,' said Margaret, rather sadly, remembering the never-ending commotion about trifles that had been going on for more than a month past: 'I wonder if a marriage must always be preceded by what you call a whirlwind, or whether in some cases there might not rather be a calm and peaceful time just before it.' North and South
A winner with strawberries, trifle and poached fruit, but also good in a surprising number of savoury recipes. Times, Sunday Times
If Bea's starter and main course were marginally better than mine, her tasty Drambuie-sodden trifle was comfortably eclipsed by my mouth-watering clootie dumpling and custard.
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
There was a bright moon and the weather was a trifle cold. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
Pour the custard over the trifle when jelly is set. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
Popular desserts were trifle, fruit salad and traditional Christmas pudding, often made wrapped in a cloth and boiled in the copper.
One of the reviews in England said my songs were flip and flimsy trifles.
I'd probably want to follow it with my mother-in-law's trifle or wonderful summer pudding.
Cool slightly, then pour over trifle sponges. Times, Sunday Times
On fire when reflecting on the losses she had sustained, mourning over friends slain and kingdoms lost, the proudest and most passionate of princesses was ill suited to dwell with the gayest and best-humored of sovereigns, whose pursuits she contemned, and whose lightness of temper, for finding comfort in such trifles, she could not forgive. Anne of Geierstein
I must confess I felt a trifle guilty about your lonely watch: nothing to report? I thought as much.
The. life and health of the body appear too precious to be thus trifled away.
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
Isn't the meat a trifle tough?
The perpetual precocious adolescent flitting about mothlike, creating trifles, feuilletons, elegant piffle.
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
Agreeing with the five years in office rule, he admits to feeling a trifle stale in the last few terms.
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
Perhaps a trifle too 'shiny' but a fecks sight better than the job Jeff Lynne (shudder) would have done! Word Magazine -
Arrange in the bottom of a trifle bowl and scatter over the raspberries. The Sun
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.
Installing the software is a trifle, though using it isn't immediately a piece of cake.
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.
In the Toast family, each trifle is different, and improvisation is encouraged. Toast:
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.
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
It is a travesty of a result but we play with style and it's a trifle early to worry yet. The Sun
The decline of the grain trade feels a trifle dull. Times, Sunday Times
While it's cooking, finish the trifle and make the pâté. Times, Sunday Times
Henchard had frequently met this man about the streets, observed that his clothing spoke of neediness, heard that he lived in Mixen Lane -- a back slum of the town, the pis aller of Casterbridge domiciliation -- itself almost a proof that a man had reached a stage when he would not stick at trifles. The Mayor of Casterbridge
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
Set against that, the cost of keeping your bike in shape is a mere trifle. Times, Sunday Times
You are not the callous trifler you pretend to be.
They've already done a medley of titles and we're not going to be bothered with such prosaic trifles, or their authors, tonight.
And there were other things in our companionship that took strong hold of my mind: to discourse and jest with him; to indulge in courteous exchanges; to read pleasant books together; to trifle together; to be earnest together; to differ at times without ill-humor, as a man might do with himself, and even through these infrequent dissensions to find zest in our more frequent agreements; sometimes teaching, sometimes being taught; longing for someone absent with impatience and welcoming the homecomer with joy. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
One thing I will never do," said Oliver Cromwell, law-clerk, swart and lusty, in green stockings and other sartor-resartus trifles; "one thing I will never do -- and that is, take human life! Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
A course of orange squash, roast chicken dinner, trifle and a cup of tea was prescribed to nurse my hangover.
The £2.50 or so I try and save is a mere trifle, but I am obsessed by it.
Nigel allowed himself the thinnest of smiles and said in the driest of voices: `Malcolm can be a trifle headstrong sometimes. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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.
Fr. _bourder_, to toy, trifle, dally; bourd or ieast with. Early English Meals and Manners
One of the reviews in England said my songs were flip and flimsy trifles.
Absurd as it was, the phrase crinkled Stanton's heart just the merest trifle. Molly Make-Believe
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.
Nigel allowed himself the thinnest of smiles and said in the driest of voices: `Malcolm can be a trifle headstrong sometimes. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Next up is a trifle, only this one is made with a cooked fruit compote and - shock! Times, Sunday Times

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