Trifling in example sentence
'Describe the occasion to which you refer.''My Lord,' said Mr. Winkle, trembling with anxiety, 'I--I'd rather not.''Perhaps so,' said the little judge; 'but you must.'Amid the profound silence of the whole court, Mr. Winkle faltered out, that the trifling circumstance of suspicion was Mr. Pickwick's being found in a lady's sleeping-apartment at midnight; which had terminated, he believed, in the breaking off of the projected marriage of the lady in question, and had led, he knew, to the whole party being forcibly carried before George Nupkins, Esq., magistrate and justice of the peace, for the borough of Ipswich!'You may leave the box, Sir,' said Serjeant Snubbin.