Which preposition to use with trifling
My affections have been trifled with several times, "because," as they said, "when they had drawn me to the proposing point, I was too handsome to be good for anything as a husbandI did very well for a beau.
"Yes," said Dean SWIFT, "and let us have some, and a little gin, say five fingers, and a trifle of milk.
The day, however, did not close without another incident happening to one of the voyagers, which, though trifling in itself, proved, as it were, the shadow of coming events which were destined to seriously affect the well-being and happiness of all the Ronleigh boys.
Everyone was almost unnaturally sweet and polite and unselfish about trifles to everybody else.
" "It is hardly worth her while to undertake nursing," said Isabelle coldly, "if she cannot stand such a trifle as this.
If only the Expectation of two thousand a year kept me from you, ah! Julia, how easily would I abandon that Trifle for your more valued sight; but that I know a fortune will render me more agreeable to the charming Julia, I should quit all my Interest here, to throw my self at her Feet, to make her sensible how I am intirely her Adorer.
He told pa the law of Kentucky made the crime of trifling with a slot machine the same as breach of promise, or arson, and that he would be lucky if he got off with ten years in the pen, with 30 days' solitary confinement in a Turkish bath cell, with niggers for companions.
Sweetwater moved a trifle on his seat, but the othersmen who had passed the meridian of life, who had known temptations, possibly had succumbed to them, from time to timesat like two statues, one in full light and the other in as dark a shadow as he could find.
It would certainly contribute greatly to the cheerfulness of one about to leave this "mortial wale," to feel morally certain that nobody cared a rap about him, or was going to make any fuss just for a trifle like that.
Strange, the trifles from which one can suck comfort!
I need only say that I extorted at last from Eveena a clear statement of the trifle at issue, which flatly contradicted those of the four participants in the squabble.
The merciless harrying of the word "kind" at the beginning of Act v. reminds one of similar elaborate trifling in Humour out of Breath; and the amoebaean rhymes in the contention between Gemulo and Silvio (Act i.) are, in their sportive quaintness, as like Day's handiwork as they are unlike Lilly's.
Dunbar was shaking hands with Bridewell, leaning a trifle over the little old man.
" "But these are merely spots on the sun, my good sir," returned Mr. Howel; "putting a few such trifles out of the question, I think you will allow that England is the most delightful country in the world?
Look to the fisherman Antonio; the murmurs of the old man must not be permitted to awaken discontent, for a cause so trifling as this transfer of his descendant from a gondola to a galley; and most of all, keep thy ears attentive to any rumors on the Rialto.
She said she got a trifle by charing, but not much now; for folks were "beginnin' to do it for theirsels."
Bacon inveighs against the scholastic trifling of his day; Milton talks of the waste of time on litigious brawling; Locke mocks at the logic of the schools; Cowley complains of being taught words, not things; Gibbon rejoices over his escape from the port and prejudice of Magdalen; Wordsworth contemns the "trade in classic niceties," and roves "in magisterial liberty" by the Cam, as afterwards among the hills.
What meaneth this idle trifling at a moment like this?" Don Camillo leaped a fearful distance, and happily he reached the gondola.
The "method of swelling distorted and commented trifles into volumes" he is content to leave to the writers of fable and romance.
The imposition of such trifles under such fearful threats was the very bitterness of spiritual pride and vindictiveness;after the law passed by which things became as they now are, it was a mere question of expediency for the National Church to determine in relation to its own comparative interests.
When Eve, therefore, put the questions to her nurse, that have already been mentioned, it was more with a real wish to know how the latter would view a choice on which her own mind was so fully made up, than any silly trifling on a subject that engrossed so much of her best affections.
That she seemed to give it against her wish,without intention,that I was alone in detecting this, were trifles beside the point.
The rule in life is for people to be about one-third as virtuous as they say they are; and if they can be got a trifle beyond that point by any legitimate process, it is something to be thankful for.
I tell you his trifling about the paper is a passing phase, and that you must not disturb him.
Half a dozen of us, the better to gather courage, went down Duke of Gloucester Street arm in arm toward the governor's palace with its great lantern alight to honor the occasion, and mounted the steps together,our trifling over our toilets had made us late,and as we entered the high doorway, did our best to look as though a great assembly was an every-day event to us.