"Nay, now thou triflest with me, Carlo; none are above the danger of doing wrong, but those whom the saints and kind Maria favor.

the greatest triflers in the creation, to fancy themselves the most important beings in itmarry come up!

From the coarse environment of the first emerge honest, upright natures like Krasnóv; from the superficial, dawdling culture of the second come weak-willed triflers like Babáyev.

Yet he could hold his own in wit with the light triflers of the court of Charles the Second.

1 Sat. i. 20. 'Were it not just that Jove, provoked to heat, Should drive these triflers from the hallow'd seat, And unrelenting stand when they entreat?' (Horneck).

" "The pretext will not serve thee, Maso; thou triflest in an affair of life and death.

At this crisis, when the allied armies are gathering on the frontier, when war is imminent against two hundred and fifty thousand of the finest soldiers in Europe, a trifler like Narbonne is placed in power!

And there was danger in the middle distance of our view into the future, danger of attack, or dangerous duty of advance, just enough to keep any trifler from feeling that his pledge was mere holiday business.