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Example sentences for "trifle more"

  • It, however, appeared to grow a trifle louder, and she found herself listening with strained attention when it ceased awhile, until it rose again, a trifle more clearly.

  • The little sardonic gleam showed a trifle more plainly in the stranger's eyes.

  • Brooke fancied that she could have been a trifle more cordial, but the fact that she sent nobody to show him the way, at least, was readily accounted for in a country where servants of any kind are remarkably scarce.

  • She sat a trifle more erect, a trifle more haughty.

  • Presently the hoot of the whistle came ringing up the pass, wheels screamed discordantly, and the pines below flitted towards them a trifle more slowly.

  • The Frenchman put it a trifle more concisely, sir," he said.

  • Hallam, a trifle more sharply, but for just a moment Damer remained motionless.

  • The girl's pose grew a trifle more rigid, and the fingers of one hand seemed to close vindictively.

  • The officers in the 10th Hussars were a trifle more showy in appearance.

  • For a few pence an old-fashioned bayonet can be picked up; a rifle bearing a date in last century will cost but a trifle more, whilst such odds and ends as badges and tunic buttons may be had for almost nothing.

  • To leave, say, a bayonet where it can be handled by children is almost a criminal act; to buy a firearm and not examine the charging chamber immediately is, if anything, a trifle more unscrupulous.

  • The demeanour of the young couples is perhaps here a trifle more boisterous, that of their elders perhaps a shade more prim; the attire of the ladies, generally, a thought more crude.

  • Though, for that matter, our feminine geniuses of to-day take themselves a trifle more seriously.

  • There was a trifle more color in her cheeks, and her head was raised a little, and her eyes were fixed upon him gravely.

  • 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.

  • Silent, narrow-minded, like most country persons they had grown a trifle more silent, a trifle more bigoted, and then they were dead.

  • His narrow eyes became a trifle more narrow, and a smile that held something of triumph in it came and played about his flat, mobile mouth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    among primitive; better condition; commonly supposed; dear husband; elegantly bound; few rods; good shot; her door; honoured friend; loom weavers; more adequate; never can; pleaded guilty; present themselves; quite obvious; sleep well; small beer; taut bowline; this second; throw light; trifle astonished; trifle difficult; trifle grim; trifle less; trifle more; wife went