His successor Zapata, in 1627, was a trifle more cautious in a conflict wherein the Inquisition was not concerned. |
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The cub reporter was a trifle perplexed by this talking over him and around him and at him. |
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While at Nauset an Indian stole some trifle from the shallop as she lay in a creek. |
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It is a trifle after that to add that he would frequently have been cudgelled. |
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If you forgot, you were fined a trifle, which went to the box set aside for the help of the sailors' orphans. |
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They thought their own habits and customs just a trifle better than those of anybody else. |
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What did she care for a trifle like quarterage while she was able to support both herself and her husband? |
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Is it a trifle that we temper energy with softness, strength with flexibility, capaciousness of sound with pliancy of idiom? |
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He was going through his letters, and I was just a trifle curious to know what was in a flat box which came by registered post. |
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Mr. Ginn, who seemed a trifle suspicious, called after him, but the call was unheeded. |
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She pouted her lip a trifle, her whole expression manifesting her contempt of him. |
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Silvia asked, a trifle diffidently, for she did not want to offend by overzeal. |
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Her happiness or misery were in my hands, and who could trifle with such a deposit? |
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Oh, it's just too beastly that for such a trifle we've got to skip out of this jolly place! |
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Was this a trifle, which only the Gholson-like smallness of my soul made spectral? |
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Is it a trifle that wre temper energy with softness, strength with flexibility, capaciousness of sound with pliancy of idiom? |
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Mr. Hempstead arched his eyebrows a trifle, and looked at the girl in some doubt. |
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And behind her the lamp in its socket on the wall smoked a trifle from a too-high wick. |
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The fingers which slid a paper cutter beneath the flap were a trifle unsteady. |
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To be just at the right stage, the blossom end of the melon should be a trifle soft when pressed with the fingers. |
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Beware how you trifle with me, Farnham, or I will tear her from that stately home. |
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He painted the figure of a satyr, and beside it, as a trifle, he inserted a partridge. |
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Often it is impossible to tell what inconsiderate trifle puts her off her stride. |
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The winter is fast coming on, and winter in the Vosges mountains is no trifle. |
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To neutralise this purple effect, a small quantity of a yellow dyestuff and a trifle of indigotin are added. |
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He must no more trifle with the girl than a dipsomaniac with the brandy bottle! |
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The barbarians took the religious along naked and fed them on a trifle of dirty rice. |
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Nothing of the tootsey-wootsey about her foot, and nothing of the airy-fairy trifle about her slipper. |
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But at the same time his nervosity caused him to produce sometimes effects a trifle hard, a trifle harsh. |
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Cut your kerf on the side toward the landing place, let the notch go half-way or a trifle more through the trunk. |
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It is, in fact, a parasitic dead-nettle, a trifle less degenerate as yet than the dodder. |
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Though thin, the man was bigly built, with broad shoulders and well-developed limbs, measuring a trifle under six feet in height. |
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He took his keys and an unvalued trifle or two from the handful, and held the rest out towards his father. |
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I understand that he's a trifle too self-satisfied to be a very popular candidate. |
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Touching their drunkenness and the trifle of rioting, what soldiers have not these faults? |
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If in the meantime it deserve the name of no unuseful trifle, 'tis all it is capable of. |
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It was a trifle disconcerting to discover that she was the daughter of a swindler. |
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But the doctrine has of necessity some elaborateness, and asks a trifle of thought. |
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He even had a tape player I'd seen on sale for a trifle over three thousand dollars. |
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Relatives are always a trifle uneasy in the presence of the chiel amang us takin notes. |
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Some trifle, probably the logbook which Davies had reached down from the shelf, called her attention to the rest of our library. |
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I wouldn't a' minded pepperin' Roselle's legs a trifle, if I'd had a barrel loaded, say, with birdshot. |
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Your philosophy may be a trifle mixed, but it will untangle itself later on. |
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It seems to me that objects of that description are a trifle too perishable. |
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In the unlimited power of her magnetism, what a trifle she had asked of him! |
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The very unusual variant, from stela 25 at Piedras Negras is perhaps a trifle nearer the form found in the codices. |
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Didn't you find my family's omniscience and total recall a trifle overdone? |
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Everything on the story above was untouched, though perhaps a trifle more dust-covered and cobwebby than before. |
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If he really meant to back the horse he would not have started with such a trifle. |
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Then he was a trifle disappointed that she had not brought him his weekly paper. |
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Be serious with the serious, gay with the gay, and trifle with the triflers. |
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This will be a trifle thicker than the course so as to allow for truing the surface of each finished course in the lathe. |
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She fancied his hand shook a trifle as he made an annotation on the pad he carried. |
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The next thing was to borrow a trifle of what was passing through his hands. |
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He stuck one hand in his pocket, and twitched his hat a trifle on one side. |
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Or does she care first to hear the trifle of news which I brought from Fontainebleau? |
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In spite of herself, phoebe felt a trifle chilled by their lack of enthusiasm. |
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Suppose I do ask a trifle of three or four reales on the dollar by the month? |
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Some a little weaker, some with more bilge-water in it, or a trifle of a dash from the midden. |
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The description of the fumigator that I constructed will vary a trifle from his, but will retain the principle. |
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Unforgiving and unforgetting, no trifle was beneath the minute vigilance of the Holy Office. |
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Even to Gilfain's unperceptive mind the opening for a sweeping lie seemed a trifle too wide. |
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We have been petting the children, and, like other children, these are a trifle too observant. |
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He had the post of concertmaster, it is true, but the salary was but a trifle and he was often pressed for money. |
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All could not help but notice that he looked a trifle pale and careworn. |
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Tom had a nagging air, and a trifle of acridity on his broad features. |
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She had aired her new accent and her new clothes a trifle too insolently. |
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It is a mere bagatelle, and as an amusive trifle may not be unacceptable. |
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If I had a good place, and was treated well here, I should beg acceptance of a trifle, instead of taking of it. |
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They were perfectly round white things a trifle smaller than an English walnut. |
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The boom should be made a trifle smaller in diameter than the mast. |
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But his smile was boyish and pleasant, and his manner a trifle shy. |
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Linda realized that she had overdone her disinterestedness a trifle. |
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But Mrs. Anthony Robeson will have to chasten her ideas a trifle. |
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Hannah now wore her hair in a coil and her dresses a trifle below her ankles, these concessions being due to her extreme height. |
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The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than usual. |
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Without a trifle of coquetry there is no dancing even in Circassia. |
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Wensleydale tells me the true impetus to bolt was the merest trifle. |
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My colourman takes his bill out in drawings, and I think owes me a trifle. |
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One of you is a trifle too old for that sort of work, and the other a trifle too young. |
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In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet. |
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He is gone to dally at Court and trifle with the Queen as of old. |
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I was going to make you the offer, my dear D'Artagnan, giving you all the time necessary for repaying me such a trifle. |
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Without any question it was painted for a bagnio and it was probably refused because it was a trifle too strong. |
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It also means, to trifle, to dilly-dally, to go round about a subject. |
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The other advanced a step, looking a trifle pale and disheveled. |
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She was a trifle obstinate and dogmatical, but we got on fairly well. |
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My biblical knowledge is a trifle rusty, I fear, but you will find the story in the first or second of Samuel. |
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Tom forged a bill of sale and sold him mother to an Arkansas cotton planter for a trifle over six hundred dollars. |
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Also, Bill Totts was a trifle inclined to late hours, and at times, in saloons, to be good-naturedly bellicose with other workmen. |
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No fancier than your own, commented Fudge, still a trifle disgruntled. |
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In short, had it not been for his magisterial and stupendous nose, the chevalier might have been thought a trifle too dainty. |
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Thomson seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. |
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When he began his talk he hoped to be able to gall them a little and get a trifle of malicious entertainment out of it. |
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His musket bounced a trifle from his shoulder at each stride and made his cap feel uncertain upon his head. |
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To be sure, gage was a trifle disingenuous in reviewing the past. |
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Edward Burbage, like Shakespeare's own portrait, is, we venture to think, a trifle stolid. |
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Edna was a trifle embarrassed at being thus signaled out for the imperious little woman's favor. |
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How dare men and women trifle with the shekinah of their lives? |
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He mustn't palter, or trifle, or shilly-shally about that iron certainty. |
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Whereupon the three were silent, save for a trifle of hemming and hawing. |
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Mr. haydon seemed a trifle resentful at this indifferent reception. |
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To play Siamese twin to a pustulous convict were a trifle beside this. |
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Hegel is fond of etymologies and often seems to trifle with words. |
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Powell, who was a mining engineer by education, stated that we had uncovered over a million dollars worth of ore in a trifle over three months. |
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Brooke, getting a trifle confused as his eyes went from one telltale face to the other. |
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Well, smarty, what is there to be done, asked Garry a trifle hotly. |
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Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily. |
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It is situated just at, or a trifle behind the orifice of the urethra. |
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He is a trifle eccentric, but his invalidism gains him many excuses. |
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He took a large portion of the trifle on to a plate and tasted it. |
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Confident as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal, my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare thought of such a possibility. |
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Lucy's heart beat a trifle more audibly to the stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement. |
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When you are putting the trifle together, try to show the different layers throughout, this makes for a lovely tall trifle with lots of colour. |
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Top the trifle with the remaining hazelnuts, grate over the dark and white chocolate and top with strawberries, if using them. |
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Grace's laugh sounded a trifle shaky, but it was a laugh nevertheless. |
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The man who had addressed Haley, and who seemed not destitute of compassion, bought her for a trifle, and the spectators began to disperse. |
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And as supercargo, with my trifle invested in the adventure and my share in the gains, I commanded the captain. |
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Toni, pulling off her flannel blouse, spoke a trifle absently. |
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She was a trifle subdued, with a puzzled look in her blue eyes. |
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He merely carried that bug-catcher nonsense a trifle too far. |
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On another, it might have appeared perhaps the merest trifle garish. |
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He tells lies like a woman, for the pleasure of it, for the merest trifle. |
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Jimmy's face grew a trifle hard as he heard it, for she was the tyee. |
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Also the tympanic bullae of this specimen are a trifle narrower. |
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What a pity he is just a trifle commonplace and unambitious. |
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It was a nice room, but to one in Agravaine's state of suppressed suspicion a trifle too solidly upholstered. |
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Her own satin costume and plumed bonnet seemed a trifle theatrical. |
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Her words, too, were a trifle hard, and as unpoetic as possible. |
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Character is a sacred thing, and it is unworthy of you to trifle with it. |
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Vasquez kindly relieved me of that trifle in the nappa Valley. |
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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. |
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Down they went, feeling a trifle timid, for they seldom went to parties, and informal as this little gathering was, it was an event to them. |
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But he was a trifle ashamed of this genealogy, and preferred not to think of it. |
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He had, perhaps, a trifle less respect for the room and its occupant. |
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Insofar as the actual sound is concerned, it's fine, if a trifle soft around the edges and somewhat limited in dimensionality. |
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But the woodcutter was not the man to put himself out for such a trifle. |
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However, in the second round, Dinesh was a trifle complacent as he allowed Korean Heo to score a bit more freely. |
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Tom looked supercilious, and elevated his pug nose a trifle. |
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The purfling is a trifle wider, but narrower than that afterwards used. |
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I'll gossip and giggle, and have horrors and raptures over any trifle you like. |
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The blue lines shifted and changed a trifle and stared expectantly at the silent woods and fields before them. |
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Had she got the rouge a trifle brighter on one cheek than on the other? |
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Then I made him a rummer of toddy and sent him to bed a trifle comforted. |
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The last adieu was a trifle husky, and Tom vanished as it was uttered, leaving Polly to laugh over his parting souvenir till the tears ran down her cheeks. |
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I know a little man from whom I can hire what I should want for a few months, for a trifle, and my gondolier can bring the things round in his boat. |
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He glanced a trifle apprehensively toward the crowded ball-room. |
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She is a trifle stouter, and her cheeks are a lovely rose-pink. |
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And the old gentleman looked a trifle ashamed of his own testiness. |
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Those who may find lengthy symphonies by the likes of Bruckner and Mahler a trifle tiresome would love this work, called Microsymph, by American composer Sebastian Currier. |
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A trifle underbred, too, or she would not insist so much on her breeding. |
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At intervals, apparently at each street intersection, an oil flare sputtered dimly from brackets set in the walls a trifle higher than a man's head. |
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I think you're a trifle cold, and I suspect I'm a trifle self-absorbed. |
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Unable to hang on as close in the eye of the wind as formerly, he proceeded to slack his sheet a trifle and to ease off a bit, in order to outfoot me. |
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The glance was a trifle too long, a shade too considerative. |
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The fact is, they have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you. |
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His gentle stewardess looked at him through eyes a trifle bedimmed. |
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Some one shall pay well for this, Jav, and unless I mistake it is yourself who has dared thus flippantly to trifle with the good nature of your jeddak. |
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I told him that this was a sort of miracle that required a trifle of preparation, and that it would be sudden death to ever talk about these preparations to anybody. |
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It was a hack like any other, only a trifle dirtier, with a greasy line along the top of the drab cushions, as if it had been used for a great many Irish funerals. |
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But such is the chemistry of life, that this small creature, this trifle of meat that moved, by being eaten, transmuted to the meat of the men the same power to move. |
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His cheap blue serge trousers were thrust into German airship rubber boots, and on his head he wore an aeronaut's white cap that was a trifle too large for him. |
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His face paled a trifle, and he leaned upon the table for support. |
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So I lent him a trifle, and now he is on his way to Australia. |
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Perhaps she did this, my father, because she wished here, as elsewhere, to be known as the Lily, and it is the Zulu fashion to name people from some such trifle. |
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Laurence was continually finding some touching case of destitution, and begging the Bhaers to take pity on the child, and he would gladly pay a trifle for its support. |
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