I remember trying this with great success, and reducing a verdict which might have been considerable to a comparatively trifling amount.

I have written these seemingly trifling fragments with a serious purpose.

The wars of this century have been of another character than those of the past; they have not involved basic principles of human association, but have been the result of attempts to gain comparatively trifling political advantages, or else were the almost inevitable consequence of adjustments of national relations.

The moral effect produced by this victory on the vanquishers and vanquished, and on the state of public opinion throughout Europe, was immense; but its immediate consequences were incredibly trifling.

The latter, seeming only to trifle lightly with his weapon at first, parried his thrusts, and then pressed the attack in turn, wounding Bach severely in the arm.

Little, trifling memories of when he was a baby, and when he was a boy, growing up!

Where shall I seek that happiness which I have madly trifled away?

" "Forgive me, but that is merely trifling with words.

I observe that in all the despatches of the commanders for the commonwealth their loss is miraculously trifling.]

She was like a child who, having naughtily trifled with danger, stands aghast at the calamity which his perverseness has caused.

Mrs. Dennison was trifling nervously with the frogs on her black silk jacket.

She paused to give due emphasis to this latter recognition of a huge gold chain with which her visitor was somewhat ostentatiously trifling.

The arduous labors of many centuries have left as their legacy a perfect system of transport; but in these Islands man can obtain many of his requirements direct with proportionately trifling labor, and a large amount of comfort for himself.

But the present point is that they possess an exceptional power to fix the price of sewing cotton as they choose, and that this is attributable in no small degree to the fact that sewing cotton constitutes an essential but relatively trifling item in the expenses of the processes in which it is employed.

One day, as Miss Pillbody was riding up Broadway, in tending to visit a Teachers' Agency for the sixteenth time, she accidentally made the acquaintance of a middle-aged lady, who talked a great deal upon the slightest provocation, trifled sadly with grammar and pronunciation, and was excessively friendly and amiable.

How shamefully she had trifled with that noble heart!

asked the man, a trifle sullenly.

Thirdly, using Words variously is trifling with them.

The piles were so wet that they could no longer be lighted; and the crowd, disappointed of a miracle so impatiently looked for, separated, with the notion of having been unworthily trifled with.

Otherwise, if we do venture to swear, without due advice and care, without much respect and awe, upon any slight or vain (not to say bad or unlawful) occasion, we then desecrate swearing, and are guilty of profaning a most sacred ordinance: the doing so doth imply base hypocrisy, or lewd mockery, or abominable wantonness and folly; in bodily invading and vainly trifling with the most august duties of religion.

Thirdly, using Words variously is trifling with them.

In the hour of death I could forgive all my enemies, but the hatred toward this man, who has so wantonly trifled with the faith and love of my child, that hatred I will take with me into the graveand yet, I fear, Elise has not forgotten him.

Thus Insurance Companies, while they take heavy risks off the shoulders of policy-holders, incur relatively trifling risks themselves; they can predict the aggregate sums which they will be called upon to pay within a small margin of error.

Ether and chloroform, those priceless blessings to the human race if properly controlled, become instruments of death when carelessly trifled with.

I will not state the ridiculously trifling amount.