Trifles
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He moped to school gloomy and sad, and took his flogging, along with Joe Harper, for playing hookey the day before, with the air of one whose heart was busy with heavier woes and wholly dead to
trifles
.
More example sentences with word trifles
his life with his wife had not shaped itself differently, but was all made up of those petty
trifles
which he had formerly so despised, but which now, against his will, assumed an unusual and incontestable importance.
Levin saw that the arrangement of all those
trifles
was not at all so easy as he had formerly supposed.
Kitty's absorption in these trifles, quite contrary to Levin's early ideal of lofty happiness, was one of his disappointments; yet that sweet absorption, the meaning of which he could not understand but which he could not help liking, was also one of his new enchantments.
They don't!...Well then, would you like me not to see anybody?'For the first moment his jealousy had offended her: she was annoyed that the least relaxation, even the most innocent, was forbidden her; but now she would gladly have sacrificed not merely
trifles
like that, but anything, to free him from the torments he was suffering.
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