1 and even this trifling sum is beyond me.
2 You come with such trifles, my good sir, it's scarcely worth anything.
3 He was obviously in an exceedingly good humour and perhaps a trifle exhilarated.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 4 One trifling circumstance upset his calculations, before he had even left the staircase.
5 But those were all trifles which he had not even begun to consider, and indeed he had no time.
6 As for getting the axe, that trifling business cost him no anxiety, for nothing could be easier.
7 He doesn't jeer at things, not because he hasn't the wit, but as though he hadn't time to waste on such trifles.
8 You seem to be offended, sister, at my making only such a frivolous criticism on the letter, and to think that I speak of such trifling matters on purpose to annoy you.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 9 But a sort of blankness, even dreaminess, had begun by degrees to take possession of him; at moments he forgot himself, or rather, forgot what was of importance, and caught at trifles.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 10 Forgive my troubling you about such trifles," he went on, a little disconcerted, "the things are only worth five roubles, but I prize them particularly for the sake of those from whom they came to me, and I must confess that I was alarmed when I heard.