All 20 Uses of
trifle
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "I will go on," he said; adding hesitatingly,—"Since you are not very well off, perhaps you would accept this trifle from me.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- Nothing was heard in reply to the signal but the gurgle and cluck of one of these invisible wheels—together with a few small sounds which a sad man would have called moans, and a happy man laughter—caused by the flapping of the waters against trifling objects in other parts of the stream.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- a trifle more than nothing.
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1) *trifle = little
- To be long-headed enough for a baily's place is a poor mere trifle—yet a trifle more than nothing.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- Far from coquetting with Boldwood, she had trifled with himself in thus feigning that she had trifled with another.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- Far from coquetting with Boldwood, she had trifled with himself in thus feigning that she had trifled with another.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- The unfastening was not such a trifling affair.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- This trifling provokes, and—and—†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- "If you do care so much for a silly trifle of that kind, then, I don't mind doing it," she uncertainly and doubtingly answered.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- The other day they said you were trifling with him, and you almost proved that you were not; lately they have said that you be not, and you straightway begin to show—†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- I don't trifle with him; but then, I have nothing to do with him.
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2) *trifle with = treat thoughtlessly or without respect
- Oh, could I but have foreseen the torture that trifling trick was going to lead me into, how I should have cursed you; but only having been able to see it since, I cannot do that, for I love you too well!†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- Yet I would rather my trifle were hid; though, perhaps, a high nater is a little high, and at my birth all things were possible to my Maker, and he may have begrudged no gifts….†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- Gabriel was almost blinded, and he could feel Bathsheba's warm arm tremble in his hand—a sensation novel and thrilling enough; but love, life, everything human, seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 1)
- Here's—wretched—the merest trifle.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 1)
- He mostly makes a point of seeing me upon the most trifling errand.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- In the worst attacks of trouble there appears to be always a superficial film of consciousness which is left disengaged and open to the notice of trifles, and Bathsheba was faintly amused at the boy's method, till he too passed on.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 1)
- Her voice was then a little clearer, and trifling colour returned to her face.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 1)
- A runaway wife is an encumbrance to everybody, a burden to herself and a byword—all of which make up a heap of misery greater than any that comes by staying at home—though this may include the trifling items of insult, beating, and starvation.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 1)
- Troy's face was very expressive, and any observer who had seen him now would hardly have believed him to be a man who had laughed, and sung, and poured love-trifles into a woman's ear.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity
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(2) (trifle with as in: trifle with her affections) to treat somebody or something thoughtlessly or without respect