And presently, descending toward him, he descried the Misses Rushford; Susie radiant as the morning, Nell a trifle paler than her wont, but more beautiful, if anything, because of it.

My story teaches (every tale should bear A fitting moral) that the wise may find In trifles light as atoms in the air, Some useful lesson to enrich the mind, Some truth designed to profit or to please, As Israel's king learned wisdom from the bees!

Billy looked across at Jack and grinned again, this time with great solemnity, and Jack himself looked just a trifle grave.

Put this pulp at the bottom of a trifle-dish; pour over it a pint of custard made by recipe No. 1423, and, when cold, cover with whipped cream.

But the people of Western Europe distrusted him as much as their rulers worshipped; and some of these same presents to their rulers have become trifle-monuments of no mean value in showing that popular idea of Russian policy.

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or me They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

If my living accommodation was a trifle crude, McMurtrie had certainly made up for it here.

Sylvia was a trifle breathless, seeing him disappear so rapidly down this unexpected path, but she was for the moment spared the effort to overtake him by the arrival of Tojiko with a tray of fresh mail.

However, he felt a trifle squeamish at the thought of the tenant of the premises returning and finding him there.

You are a nice child, though a trifle peppery.

"I say, Stephen," said he to his galloper, "those Mallows seem a trifle jumpy.

It was not astonishing that he had become a trifle misanthropic.

The woman thanked him, her eyes penetrant, keenly intelligent, even a trifle mocking.

Why, my fair rosebud A trifle overblown, but not less sweet I have been pining for you, till my hair Is as gray as any badger's.

The dux turned a trifle pale, but pulling himself together, marched off with a firm step to learn his fate.

Also, she thought, a trifle precipitate.

Externally, he seemed very little changed,a trifle quieter, perhaps, and gentler.

Bobbles, having been told by his second that he had the better of it, had grown a trifle rash and impudent, and dared to take the aggressive.

She seemed a trifle rickety on the pins too; in fact they were a rum-looking couple.

He came back, looking a trifle sheepish.

True, I had forced him to climb down, quelling him, as described, with the quiet strength of my personality, but I was still a trifle shirty at his having brought the thing up at all.

Perhaps the nose is a trifle squatter than even the average new-born's flat nose.

Perhaps it was a trifle stiffly that he said he did not care for any raspberries.

He was a genial looking, round-faced man, quite bald and inclined to be a trifle stout; yet his fifty-odd years sat lightly upon him.

" The raciness of which he was so fond, which Corbiere offered him in his sharp epithets, his beauties which ever remained a trifle suspect, Des Esseintes found again in another poet, Theodore Hannon, a disciple of Baudelaire and Gautier, moved by a very unusual sense of the exquisite and the artificial.