trifles

• This collection has come to us in an even more incomplete and mutilated condition than the others; but enough has been preserved to show us that a right-thinking and religiously-given Chaldeo-Babylonian must have spent his life taking notes of the absurdest trifles, and questioning the diviners and priests about them, in order not to get into scrapes by misinterpreting the signs and taking that to be a favorable omen which boded dire calamity--or the other way, and thus doing things or leaving them undone at the wrong moment and in the wrong way. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• I seldom had occasion all the time I was in the family to find fault with him even for trifles, and only once to threaten serious castigation, of which he was no sooner aware than he suddenly sprung up, threw his arms about my neck, and kissed me. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• Otherwise the Pharisees who exercised their zeal about trifles, and neglected the weightier matters of the law, (Matt. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• G."--a contributor of a couple of trifles--and worked for Punch from 1870 to 1874, making seven-and-twenty drawings, "socials" chiefly, in his well-known style. —  The History of "Punch"
• Was all this series of events--trifles of no importance in themselves, but very curious in their combination--foreordained? —  The Life Radiant

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