Which preposition to use with trifling

with Occurrences 267%

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.

of Occurrences 117%

"Yes," said Dean SWIFT, "and let us have some, and a little gin, say five fingers, and a trifle of milk.

in Occurrences 81%

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.

to Occurrences 45%

Everyone was almost unnaturally sweet and polite and unselfish about trifles to everybody else.

as Occurrences 42%

" "It is hardly worth her while to undertake nursing," said Isabelle coldly, "if she cannot stand such a trifle as this.

for Occurrences 26%

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.

with Occurrences 21%

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.

on Occurrences 16%

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.

like Occurrences 15%

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.

from Occurrences 14%

Strange, the trifles from which one can suck comfort!

at Occurrences 14%

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.

in Occurrences 11%

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.

over Occurrences 10%

Dunbar was shaking hands with Bridewell, leaning a trifle over the little old man.

out Occurrences 8%

" "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?

as Occurrences 8%

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.

by Occurrences 6%

She said she got a trifle by charing, but not much now; for folks were "beginnin' to do it for theirsels."

of Occurrences 5%

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.

at Occurrences 4%

What meaneth this idle trifling at a moment like this?" Don Camillo leaped a fearful distance, and happily he reached the gondola.

into Occurrences 4%

The "method of swelling distorted and commented trifles into volumes" he is content to leave to the writers of fable and romance.

under Occurrences 4%

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.

on Occurrences 4%

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.

beside Occurrences 3%

That she seemed to give it against her wish,without intention,that I was alone in detecting this, were trifles beside the point.

beyond Occurrences 3%

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.

about Occurrences 3%

I tell you his trifling about the paper is a passing phase, and that you must not disturb him.

over Occurrences 2%

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.

Which preposition to use with  trifling