baubling

Even to tease the coasts of our enemy, to mortify them by continual blockades, to insult them by capturing if it were but a baubling schooner under the eyes of their arrogant armies, repeated from time to time a sullen proclamation of power lodged in one quarter to which the hopes of Christendom turned in secret.

The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc Thomas De Quincey 1822

_ A _Roman_ or a _Grecian_, say you, bold _Britains_ laugh at all their baubling Fights; and had _Achilles_, with his batt'ring Rams, felt half the Fury of an _English_ General, _Troy_ had ne'er bully'd out a Ten

The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704

Up and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke about business for Tangier about money, and then to Sir Stephen Fox to give him account of a little service I have done him about money coming to him from our office, and then to Lovett's and saw a few baubling things of their doing which are very pretty, but the quality of the people, living only by shifts, do not please me, that it makes me I do no more care for them, nor shall have more acquaintance with them after I have got my Lady Castlemayne's picture home.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Up and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke about business for Tangier about money, and then to Sir Stephen Fox to give him account of a little service I have done him about money coming to him from our office, and then to Lovett's and saw a few baubling things of their doing which are very pretty, but the quality of the people, living only by shifts, do not please me, that it makes me I do no more care for them, nor shall have more acquaintance with them after I have got my Lady Castlemayne's picture home.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 51: March 1666-67 Samuel Pepys 1668

Up and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke about business for Tangier about money, and then to Sir Stephen Fox to give him account of a little service I have done him about money coming to him from our office, and then to Lovett's and saw a few baubling things of their doing which are very pretty, but the quality of the people, living only by shifts, do not please me, that it makes me I do no more care for them, nor shall have more acquaintance with them after I have got my Lady Castlemayne's picture home.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Up and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke about business for Tangier about money, and then to Sir Stephen Fox to give him account of a little service I have done him about money coming to him from our office, and then to Lovett's and saw a few baubling things of their doing which are very pretty, but the quality of the people, living only by shifts, do not please me, that it makes me I do no more care for them, nor shall have more acquaintance with them after I have got my Lady Castlemayne's picture home.

Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1666/67 Pepys, Samuel 1667

"baubling shallop," which had first suggested to Peter's mind the idea and the possibility of giving Russia a navy.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various