And furthermore, they say she got to trifling with magic and prowling about the temples to see if the gods came true.
Lounging on an exedra was a young woman in a woolen chiton, barefoot and trifling with the Greek ampyx that bound her golden hair.
Surely now he would accept a trifling bondage for the sake of peace, rather than yield again to the vague uncertainty of irresponsible freedom and the disastrous results he had plainly experienced.
But, since we began this paper, two events have occurred, which, trifling as they may be as to the individuals concerned, give too clear an evidence of the spirit of Popery and public men to be wholly passed by.
I have been to Jersey, madam, and shall be happy to afford you the trifling information I have gained respecting its peculiarities.
Only see what a triflingexertion makes you weary and complaining.
Near Scotland there are several little unimportant places of trifling interest, of which I should be glad to gain some information, as at present I know nothing more than that they are there, are inhabited, and tolerably fertile.
It will not increase the legal expenses at all, or at least by only a very trifling amount.
It conveyed the idea to my mind that you thought fifty thousand pounds a trifling sum indeed.
If I had found she was a hopeless flirt, or something of that kind, who was trifling with me, I should have been very much shocked, of course, but I should have thought about my own feelings.
I would have resented the trifling at that moment from almost any person but Grace.
A trifling accident occurred which might have been far from trifling; one of the ornaments of the ceiling of the Palazzo Madama, where the Parliament assembled, fell close to the King.
No error could have proved more calamitous; till that moment the Austrians were in ignorance of the Piedmontese mission; De-Castillia was arrested on some far more trifling charge.
Speri had a trifling part in the propaganda, but the remembrance of his conduct in 1849 ensured his condemnation.
Of the whole 2nd corps d'armée only a trifling detachment ever reached the ground.
The effect would be that no one would be able to ask credit at a shop except where he was well known, and for trifling sums.
Never think any matter so trifling as not to deserve notice.
In fact, it is so rare that if pyæmia occurs and we find ever so trifling an infected wound, we can safely attribute the pyæmia to the wound and not to a spontaneous origin.
Here again the claim might apparently be justified that death was not necessarily due to the trifling injury.
The accomplished surgeon knows that this is a matter of very trifling import, but the witness’ status will be much better established with the jury if he can show himself familiar with this possible method of examination.
It was a trifling service, only to deliver to Mrs. Coombe a small postal packet which she held in her hand.
When you are in love you will know, only too well, this jealousy of youless years; this tenderness for photos and trifling remembrances of the youth of the one you love.
To her they were immensely important, but to the family the really important thing seemed that, with trifling exceptions, the new inmate of the household was gentle and kind; her housekeeping a miracle and her cooking a dream.
Such were the trifling incidents which afforded us amusement and assisted to keep up our spirits.
The privilege of calling her master tete de laitue was but trifling recompense, and they strolled on, surprised that one noted for his eloquence in this variety of obloquy did not deign to reply.
Once, indeed, the Comte had been about to strike him for some trifling fault, but somehow the blow, for which Pepin stood waiting, never fell.
He had aged visibly in six weeks, and he walked no longer with the brisk and cheerful step which had bespoken his youthfulness of spirit, but shuffled his feet, and often stumbled over trifling obstacles.
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Now, if she had simply been slipping trifling articles off shop counters into her muff, she wouldn't have expected you to be shocked.
Quite a trifling accident might upset the entire plan, and I ought to be on the spot to straighten things out directly they begin to get into a tangle.
It's exactly the same in principle as why a good doctor tries to cheer up a patient by saying that he'll be perfectly well in the inside of a week after a trifling operation.
I broke down one afternoon altogether, and it was only some trifling little piece of attention on his part that did it.
Why, he has no prospects beyond his pay and a trifling allowance from his father!
But, as if to atone for a life of avarice, he left by will the bulk of his riches to several charitable societies, and a few trifling legacies to individuals.
With characteristic readiness and sang-froid, he took an orange from a dish near him, and making some trifling remark on the excellence of the fruit, tossed it up once or twice, catching it in his hand again.
It was highly amusing to witness the great variety oftrifling presents and frivolous messages which Nollekens received late in life.
Among them was a young actress, whose benefit was on the tapis, and who, hearing of the arrival of a person so talked of as Monk Lewis, waited upon him at the inn to request the very trifling favour of an original piece from his pen.
Not suspecting the cause of his alarm, he supposed it was trifling and gave it no attention.
All this trifling at one corner of the roof was intended to hold his attention, while one of the warriors stealthily climbed over the eaves at another portion and reached the inside by dropping through the scuttle.
In referring to it afterward he admitted its absurdity, and yet he would have made the attempt but for a triflingdiscovery when almost in the act of taking the decisive step.
While there is nothing extraordinary in the wild panic often created by a thunderstorm, there are occasions when a whole herd is stampeded by a cause too trifling to be understood.
And when again I reflected upon the frightful discomforts and straits of monasticism I said, How trifling it is all in comparison with eternal peace.
He never would or could understand trifling in any form, having all a child's honesty and directness.
The other business men make considerable fun of Billy's hired help; the trifling boys he hires, boys that everybody else has tried and sent packing.
But the sounds of the rivulet, feeble and murmuring as they were, relieved the guides at once from no trifling embarrassment, and towards it they immediately held their way.
Chingachgook turned a calm and incurious eye towards the place where the ball had struck, and then resumed his former attitude, with a composure that could not be disturbed by so trifling an incident.
I want but a trifling service from you, though ’tis a vast favor to me," said Robin.
Why, just a trifling wager; I think you’ll own I’ve won it fairly!
Still the children were shamefully treated, starved and beaten for the most trifling things.
What is the nature of this intelligence which tells us our thoughts when sincere, and regards them not when called for with a trifling or dishonest purpose?
They probably meant it as a reproof of the girls' attempt to mix up their childish nonsense with a subject too great and grave for such trifling on their part.
I can tell you it is no trifling mark of constancy, for a wandering fellow like me to stick to farming, and doing the dutiful son all these years.
Again, she knew that a man of his position could only be trifling with a girl in her's, and was ready to hate and despise one who could be so vile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trifling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
