All 10 Uses of
trifle
in
Sons and Lovers
- And the neighbours made broths, and gave eggs, and such invalids' trifles.†
Chpt 1.3
- Indeed, the little manufacturer, although he spoke bad English, was quite gentleman enough to leave his men alone and to take no notice of trifles.†
Chpt 1.5
- She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill.
Chpt 2.7 *trifles = unimportant things
- After calling for Paul regularly during the whole spring, a number of trifling incidents and tiny insults from his family awakened her to their attitude towards her, and she decided to go no more.†
Chpt 2.7
- And Paul felt he had done something for her, if only a trifle.†
Chpt 2.8
- It was his mother's custom to bring him some trifle for supper on Friday night, the night of luxury for the colliers.†
Chpt 2.8
- "But, you see, it's only a trifle.†
Chpt 2.10
- She would obey him in his trifling commands.†
Chpt 2.11
- For they had both come to the condition when they had to make much of the trifles, lest they should give in to the big thing, and their human independence would go smash.†
Chpt 2.14
- Dawes glanced at him again, with dark eyes that agreed with everything the other would say, perhaps a trifle dominated by him.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity