For he was not so tall as myself, until he put his high-heeled boots on, and he made such a stir about trifles at which Uncle Sam would have only grunted, that I took him to be nothing more than a fidgety old campaigner.
As to such trifles as the tint and device of wall-paper, I confess my indifference; be the walls only unobtrusive, and I am satisfied.
Curious pursuits of the mind at leisure are represented in publications numberless; trifles and oddities of intellectual savour; gatherings from every byway of human interest.
Why should I be alarmed by these trifles when I am contemplating such a desperate deed?
To gratify them and keep them our friends, the captain always rewarded them on these occasions with knives, beads, and suchtrifles to their full satisfaction.
After mutual salutation, the captain distributed knives and other trifles among them, giving a tin ring to each of the women and children, with which they were much pleased.
He only kept secrets when they were really important ones; very different from those make-believe diplomatists, who think they give themselves importance by making a mystery of trifles of no consequence.
That," he said, "is one of the trifles a man with a sense of proportion and a contemplative temperament makes light of.
Calonne for the restoration of some trifles detained in the custom-house at Calais.
Knowing her generous nature, it was clear that what she had done for me had not been done wittingly for a lover; but, on the other hand, I could recall many trifles which may have had their significance.
My threadbare jean clung shapelessly about me, there was thick dust on my old leggings and a rent in my broad hat, which trifles were, by comparison, not without significance.
Besides, he carried always with him a number of trifles by which he could have been identified.
John Hefford proved at once that he was superior to all such trifles as nerves.
Lady Angela played for a moment with the dainty trifles which hung from her bracelet.
Irritated by this unexpected stroke, for I have already lived a year here, I begin to notice trifles which I had formerly overlooked.
As a matter of fact, all possible trifles combine to poison my life and to deprive me of the necessary quiet for work.
I bought a few trifles of her, this pelerine, only forty dollars, and this cheap bracelet for fifty.
Mrs. Mowbray found Rotha one day gathering her books together and triflesout of her desk.
There ensued a little silence, during which Mrs. Mowbray was somewhat uneasily arranging some disarranged books andtrifles on the great library table; and Rotha stood still.
These trifles drove her heart into the gulf of maternal preference.
With suchtrifles and with orders from the dealers, I may manage to earn eighteen hundred to two thousand francs a year over and above the working expenses.
He is praised for a judicious reserve in criticism, avoiding the trifles by which many scholars had wearied their readers, and attending only to what really demanded the aid of a critic, as being corrupt or obscure.
For the same reason, his biographer informs us, he disliked the society of women, gaining nothing valuable from the trifles and scandal upon which alone they could converse.
Pray forward the trifles I am sending to my little deserted family as soon as received.
To his surprise it was declined, but in a grave and smiling way, accompanied too with gestures which seemed to say, "I need no payment; I am beyond such trifles as these.
Since he came to Paris he has turned out three or four little trifles in that style, and that is the fruit of four years' study and toil.
In revolutions, as in storms at sea, solid treasure goes to the bottom, and light trifles are floated to the surface.
It is in trifles of this sort that the trapper should look for auxiliaries.
Tickell, much less occupied by business than his friend, had always some political jeux d'esprit on the anvil; and sometimes these trifles were produced by them jointly.
There are a hundred trifles which part school friends, whose affection has been of short, rapid growth, and which must therefore wither in a new atmosphere, unless its roots have struck deep down into the hearts of both.
In making trifles of this sort, girls should not forget that nothing is more effectual in preventing insipidity than a tiny scrap of onion.
Trifles made of pastry are always acceptable for occasions of the kind named.
Any mind awake to beauty must try to create it, and if its power and originality are not very great, what can it do better than to apply itself to humble, every-day trifles and try to decorate them?
Hard workers are in danger of being irritable and hurried and careless of the trifles which add so much to the beauty and dignity of life.
But Mildred saw that these trifles were but a trifling incident in Mrs. Brindley's knowledge.
You call those trifles your freedom, but they're your slavery.
She spent a little money of her own here and there--in tips, in buying presents for her mother, in picking up trifles for her own toilet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trifles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chaff; details; froth; minutiae; rubbish; trash; trifle; trumpery
