"Gentlemen," resumed the orator, "I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a
mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration.
From The Earth To The Moon
The rain was a
mere trifle, and Anne was most sincere in preferring a walk with Mr Elliot.
Persuasion
"I can't charge my memory, Sergeant," he said, "a mere trifle--a
mere trifle."
The Moonstone
They are brought in great numbers to the establishments of the Hudson's Bay Company, and sold for a
mere trifle.
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and
Being poor is a
mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
So much depends upon it that my own life, if that is in danger, would be a
mere trifle in comparison with the issues involved.
The Vanished Messenger
"A
mere trifle. `Monsieur d'Artagnan, I send to the king of France the treaty in question, with a request that he will cast into the Bastile provisionally, and then send to me, all who have taken part in this expedition; and that is a prayer with which the king will certainly comply.'"
Ten Years Later
Phillips began to express her concern thereupon, he assured her with much earnest gravity that it was not of the least importance, that he considered the money as a
mere trifle, and begged that she would not make herself uneasy.
Pride and Prejudice
Miss Pross's fidelity of belief in Solomon (deducting a
mere trifle for this slight mistake) was quite a serious matter with Mr.
Tale Of Two Cities
These shirts cost me nothing but just the
mere trifle for the materials -- I furnished those myself, it would not have been right to make him do that -- and they sold like smoke to pilgrims at a dollar and a half apiece, which was the price of fifty cows or a blooded race horse in Arthurdom.
Connecticut Yankee
She exerted herself, and did try to make her comfortable, by considering all that had passed as a
mere trifle, and quite unworthy of being dwelt on,
Emma
Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has been a
mere trifle, in comparison with that which has removed masses of our palaeozoic strata, in parts ten thousand feet in thickness, as shown in Prof.
The Origin of Species
We have just been trying, by way of doing something, and amusing my mother, just within the last week, to get up a few scenes, a
mere trifle. We have had such incessant rains almost since October began, that we have been nearly confined to the house for days together.
Mansfield Park
Jonson's poem, however, is a
mere trifle, Tennyson's one of the great things of our literature.
English Literature For Boys And Girls
But the soul that ascends to worship the great God is plain and true; has no rose-color, no fine friends, no chivalry, no adventures; does not want admiration; dwells in the hour that now is, in the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present moment and the
mere trifle having become porous to thought and bibulous of the sea of light.
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