Trifled
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The thing failed this time, however, so the boys shouldered their tools and went away feeling that they had not
trifled
with fortune, but had fulfilled all the requirements that belong to the business of treasure-hunting.
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Judging from his finely shaded and two-fisted portrayal of the cunning, not to be
trifled
with Pando, Bryan Brown undoubtedly qualifies as one of the finest actors to ever grace celluloid.
I saw Jan in "Buster and Billy" and he kicked the crap iota two dudes and than smashed their skulls in with a cue ball, plus he killed Charles Bronson in "The Mechanic" (with a chase scene that must have inspired the DeNiro flick "Ronin"), so Jan Michael was not to be
trifled
with at that time, no way.
His attire was strictly in conformity to the prescribed rules of the service to which he belonged; but while his air was erect and military, his fingers
trifled
with a kind of convulsive and unconscious motion, with a bit of crape that entwined the hilt of the sword on which his body partly reclined, and which, like himself, seemed a relic of older times.
On seeing this, Don Fernando, persuaded that Luscinda had befooled, slighted, and
trifled
with him, assailed her before she had recovered from her swoon, and tried to stab her with the dagger that had been found, and would have succeeded had not her parents and those who were present prevented him.
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