How To Use Rifling In A Sentence
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Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange!
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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Clay, read how ishawooadescribed that round and think, high pressuer, could it have been an overcharge ... undercharge ... could the rifling been shot out at the chamber mouth .. all these can cause the indicators he listed, bullet set out alittle could not cause this "unless" there was an excessive gap at the chamber mouth.
An Unequal Progress in Accuracy
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The hurt or injury need not be serious or permanent but must be more than trifling or transient.
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The money involved was a trifling sum.
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Spent on some trifling matter?
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain; 'and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr
Martin Chuzzlewit
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He drew from his pocket a sheet of folded paper and placed upon the end of his nose his famous gold 'lorgnon': "It is very trifling, one of those directives, as Monsieur de Moltke says, which serve to guide operations, a plan of action which we will modify after discussion.
Cosmopolis — Complete
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In theory it keeps your shots more consistent because the amount of force it takes to launch the bullet into the rifling is uniform from shot-to-shot.
Rifles of Interest: Remington Model 700 Custom Shop AWR II
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The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast.
Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River
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Outside California these difficulties may seem fairly trifling.
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He was the humorous and satirical idyllist _par excellence_, and laid the scenes of his romances in idyllic surroundings, using the trifling events of daily life to wonderful purpose.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
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Rifling through a funky set that included bass-heavy grooves like "It's Ice," "NICU" and "The Moma Dance," Phish kicked off its fall tour in improv-laden style.
Colin St. John: Phish Maintains Its Colorado Connection
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The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.
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The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look.
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I would have bet that the conventional rifling of the Douglas barrel would have been more accurate.
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And, what's even more galling, we've been told that the sum involved is comparatively trifling, a drop in the ocean of the department's annual budget of €41 billion.
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The rifling for the entire length of the tube must be smooth and free of burrs and scars.
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When compared to the whole federal budget, the money spent on welfare is trifling, especially when you look at other, truly wasteful federal budget items.
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This may seem a trifling matter considering his wealth but famous people don't often do that sort of thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is interesting as this type of rifling generally yields poor results with cast lead-alloy bullets unless they are gas-checked or very hard.
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Bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage (where the bullet goes from being supersonic to subsonic) the reason for this as best as I understand is due to the change in the way the air flows over the grooves in the bullet that the rifling engraves in its surface.
Best caliber for 600+ yard shots
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I discovered my husband rifling through the filing cabinet.
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All were loaded with the bullet seated .010-inch off the rifling, in Winchester cases with CCI large rifle magnum primers.
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After its risible opening - Princeton admissions officers rifling through applications under cloying voiceover - the movie only sinks lower.
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The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.
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It was something trifling; in fact, I didn't even remember what triggered it.
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Little bits fall off the car, some trifling part has been improperly milled, a mechanic makes a mistake.
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He picked up the loose ball, cut inside then out onto his left foot, before rifling the ball past Julian Speroni into the far corner.
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With the Stoney Point tool we determined it would be impossible to seat these short 40 gr. bullets anywhere near the rifling in either rifle.
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a trifling matter
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What seems to many a trifling matter of wording could have profound consequences.
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For will any of sound discretion approve of my being beaten as a boy, because, by playing at ball, I made less progress in studies which I was to learn, only that, as a man, I might play more unbeseemingly? and what else did he who beat me? who, if worsted in some trifling discussion with his fellow-tutor, was more embittered and jealous than I when beaten at ball by a play-fellow?
The First Book
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For those of a certain tribal cast of Irish-Australian mind, such questions of geography and chronology are trifling.
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This measurement must be made on the bullet ogive where it first contacts the rifling.
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I still don’t know if “cut” rifling is better than “button”, or if a hammer-forged barrel is best.
The Most Important Part of a Rifle
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The barrel can be rifled and this rifling causes the projectile to spin, increasing its accuracy.
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I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness; but there are moments when, if any one performs an act of kindness towards him, or does him any the most trifling service, his whole countenance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
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I got up, dragging the base of the corded phone across my floor so I could reach my closet, and began rifling through the shirts on the shelf.
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I am rifling through the cupboards in rising irritation, through the dirty laundry, through the collection of "bags for life" that clog the hallway.
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The leading pair brushed off one another going around the turn but it was only a trifling matter.
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Because of their lack of self esteem and self-confidence, says Lucy, many self-harmers tend to have very extreme emotional reactions to things which to many people would seem trifling.
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The Big Girl chooses to pester me with her pleas to get her ear pierced just before school, just before bed, or when I'm rifling in the refrigerator with a wolfish look. She couldn't pick worse times.
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To the unrefined or under-bred person, the visiting-card is but a trifling and insignificant piece of paper; but to the cultured disciple of social law it conveys a subtle and unmistakable intelligence.
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Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it.
The Imperialist
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Delaney was not for trifling with and while others around him were off their game he compensated, and then some more!
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The child sat trifling with the burnt bread upon his plate.
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They hope their words and deeds can cause the attention of other, peacockish , egocentric, ego abandon, often react to trifling bagatelle mood too intense, sometimes for no reason gets angry.
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For the patient's sake as well as his own, he must endeavour to strike the medium between negligence and ridicule on the one hand, and too much solicitude about every trifling symptom on the other.
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Christian should reluctantly give up, one by one, the pleasures of the world; and look back upon them, when relinquished, with eyes of wistfulness and regret: because he knows not the sweetness of the delights with which true Christianity repays those trifling sacrifices, and is greatly unacquainted with the _nature_ of that pleasantness which is to be found in the ways of Religion.
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.
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But the Scottish champion didn't seem bothered by such trifling details, opening up an early five-point lead to close out the opening set in double quick time.
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I took it, but my relief was mingled with insensible annoyance at the trifling penalty.
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Outside California these difficulties may seem fairly trifling.
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Another method of barrel rifling is rotary-hammer forging.
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Set against estimates of the infrastructure needed to sustain GDP growth at about 8 per cent, the sum is trifling.
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Humboldt considers the Mexican Indian as destitute of all imagination, though when to a certain degree educated, he attributes to him facility in learning, a clearness of understanding, a natural turn for reasoning, and a particular aptitude to subtilize and seize trifling distinctions.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
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Alas! that love is certainly very lukewarm which can be extinguished by so trifling an offence; that scornful rigour, which is displayed so readily, sufficiently shows to me the depth of her affection.
The Love-Tiff
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I shall from this day take the firm resolution to study with renewed assiduity, to keep my attention always well fixed on whatever I am about, and to strive to become every day less trifling and more fit for what, if Heaven wills it, I'm some day to be.
Archive 2008-01-01
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The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed!
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
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As a general rule an injunction will be refused only where the interference with the claimant's right is trifling or slight.
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The foremost portion of this auxiliary chamber incorporates many small rifling grooves to just stabilize the bullet before it engages the bore.
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The following afternoon she came into the store from the stockroom, stopping in the doorway as she saw the tall blonde man rifling through the cash register.
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The heavier bullet necessitated a change in rifling twist.
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(Other words that had me rifling through the dictionary: “gryke,” “rachitic,” “siwash,” “loess.”)
A White-Line Nightmare, After the End of the World
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It featured broach cut rifling, was lapped by hand, and was made from 4140 carbon steel.
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Roederer, Boulay, even the Second Consul himself, now perceived how trifling was their influence when they attempted to modify Bonaparte's plans, and two sections of the Council speedily decided that there should be a military commission to judge suspects and "deport" dangerous persons, and that the Government should announce this to the Senate, Corps Législatif, and Tribunate.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
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Are you sure that you want to proceed against your neighbour over such a trifling matter?
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Twenty-caliber cartridges are not a new idea but have not been a popular one because of the difficulty in rifling bores that small and making good bullets to fit them.
Ammunition
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Yet if the results of ‘public consultations’ are trifling, the effect on our political culture is insidious.
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Its rifling was so shallow it wouldn't accurately shoot lead alloy bullets, although I must admit it would shoot jacketed ones OK.
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After ballasting his ship with silver from the rich Potosi mines, and rifling even the churches, he hastened onward in pursuit of a richly laden galleon nicknamed _Cacafuego_ -- a name discreetly translated _Spitfire_, but which, to repeat a joke that greatly amused Drake's men at the time, it was proposed to change to _Spitsilver_, for when overtaken and captured the vessel yielded 26 tons of silver, 13 chests of pieces of eight, and gold and jewels sufficient to swell the booty to half a million pounds sterling.
A History of Sea Power
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After having a a little descanted on this Adventure, we resolved to go to the Rose, to wash down our Disappointments, and try to meet some of our Acquaintance as they came out of the Play, and hear what Transactions, what Intrigues, and other little trifling News the House afforded that Evening.
The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
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When you get a tube smoking hot and keep it that way, its rifling is going to erode.
Barrel Life, Part II
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The impact of our emotional wellbeing on our health is not a trifling problem.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such men, where all else failed, could get themselves admitted into some smaller religious house by the interest of the patron; sometimes bringing in a trifling addition to the common property, sometimes simply 'pitchforked' into a vacancy, it is difficult to say how.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
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Let me denounce this piffling, trifling, self-satisfied world; these horse-hair seats; these coloured photographs of piers and parades.
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The girl sat there trifling with a pen.
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One type is a round chrome moly steel liner that is button rifled to produce an ultra-smooth bore with uniform rifling.
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I can still see his slight frame darting past defenders and rifling over points with unerring ease and accuracy.
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Meanwhile they are mouldering up there on what might be some absolutely trifling offence.
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Philip Hexton must have walked in and out quite a couple of miles, examining ventilating-doors, seeing that the boys who opened and shut them for the corves to pass were doing their duty, and the like; and, trifling as it may sound, a great deal depends in a coal-mine upon such
Son Philip
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Meanwhile they are mouldering up there on what might be some absolutely trifling offence.
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It spoke of the difference of the two in the means and ends proposed, and of the trifling grievances of our fathers compared with the wrongs and sufferings of the slaves, which it forcibly characterized as unequalled by any others on the face of the earth.
The Complete Works of Whittier
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Whilst he was rifling through years of documents, Emily noticed a playbill from the ‘Collisseum’ London playhouse owned by Albert Colliss, a promotion of the new Irish verse-play ‘The Secret Flower’.
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Even when they're rifling through your bins, abducting your children or conducting audacious raids on privately owned pic-a-nic baskets.
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And it largely worked because people instinctively recoil at the idea of nosy creeps like him rifling through other people's underwear drawers.
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The fermentive action of the bile is trifling; it dissolves fats, to a certain extent, and is antiseptic, that is, it prevents putrefaction to which the chyme might be liable; it also seems to act as a natural purgative.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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They were rifling through a rack of clothes at a shop on the boardwalk.
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You will contrive to let my Mother have the enclosed letter as soon as possible, as she may want some trifling article before she starts. and if they agree to ride on Monday the 18th you will apprize me of it by letter to be received on Monday morning.
Letter 133
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Those men go on, as they say, in one uniform tenor of speaking, bringing nothing except their facility and equalness of language; or else they add something, like reliefs on a pedestal, and so they embellish their whole oration, with trifling ornaments of words and ideas.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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It appeared that while his comrades had been attending on Giuseppe, the third Corsican (whom they called Ste, or Stephanu) had filled up his time by rifling our camp; and of all our possessions he had chosen to select our half-dozen spare muskets and a burst coffer, from which he now extracted and (for his comrade's admiration) held aloft our chiefest treasure -- the Iron Crown of Corsica.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
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He is trifling with her
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Other apps, such as ToyCamera and Plastiq Camera, have more options and more intuitive interfaces, but they miss the point — retro-fied photo apps should be ugly until they're beautiful, and as thrillingly random as rifling through a shoebox of vintage Polaroids.
Style Meets Substance
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There's no rifling in the barrel, and you call it a rifle?
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Singing for the most powerful man in the world is a trifling matter when you have the biggest global gig to think about.
Times, Sunday Times
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Zanders led the way through a dark, somber hall, wide and high-ceiled, to a farther gate, where a second gateman, trifling with a large key, unlocked a barred door at his bidding.
The Financier
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Outside California these difficulties may seem fairly trifling.
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Housekeepers are routinely accused by guests of stealing money from nightstands, making international calls from the room phones, rifling through luggage and pocketing jewelry.
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We see this even in so trifling a fact as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree.
XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion
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The rifling is scorched about a third of the way up the barrel.
.270 vs.
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The rifling is not cut “Sharp”, there’s rounded edges … to my eyes anyway.
Some Random Thoughts on the Election
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The grooves are the depressions in the rifling.
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To rectify the problem, the Enfield form of rifling based on five grooves and lands is introduced, so the last of the British military Martinis are called Martini-Enfields.
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`I go break his neck,' said Dayo, holding up a pair of unartistic hands that would have found the task trifling.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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Puccini was expert not only at describing the trifling matters of daily life, but also at using various melodies to expose the distinctive personality of each character.
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In their six grooves, Colerain barrels feature round bottom rifling that holds less fowling; square bottomed grooves reportedly retain more fowling.
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y aun en albricias le di even gave a trifling fee al Escultor no sé qué. to the sculptor who carved it.
Don Juan Tenorio
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This would seem a trifling amount considering honey bees pollinate the majority of our fruits and vegetables and have been experiencing serious population decline.
Edward Flattau: Frivolous Pork
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Surely, in the face of such injustice, the trifling matter of a turkey can wait?
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Hayton, who is in his 40s, found the thief rifling through the purse in an enclosed yard but the man drew a cutthroat razor and advanced, waving the blade from side to side.
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Almost all the highways of Italy were erected on a foundation four feet deep; when a space of marshy ground or bog was on the track of the road, it was filled up; and when any part of it was mountainous, its precipitousness was reduced to a gentle and trifling inclination from the general line of the road.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The sums deducted in fees may seem trifling but, over a number of years, they eat away at savings.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had not intended this kind of recrimination, but he was exasperated with her wearied acceptance of his reproaches and by a sudden conviction that his long-cherished grievance against her now that he had voiced it was inadequate, mean, and trifling.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories
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Rifle shooters know that seating bullets out closer to the rifling almost always improves accuracy.
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I have an aversion to tame poetry; at best, perhaps the art is the sublimest of the difficiles nugae; to measure or rhyme prose is trifling without being difficult.
Selected English Letters
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Sometimes it can also be something trifling like getting a mosquito bite.
The Sun
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Such stuff may not have seemed so trifling to women playgoers, since women exerted greater control over movable objects than did men.
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Sometimes it can also be something trifling like getting a mosquito bite.
The Sun
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Persicaria to grow in solutions of humate of potash, and found a very trifling diminution in the quantity of humic acid present; but the value of his experiments is invalidated by his having omitted to ascertain whether the diminution of humic acid which he observed was really due to absorption by the plant.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
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He was not a cruel man, but he held landsmen and women in a kind of placid contempt and so felt little sympathy for their trifling complaints.
The Mistaken Wife
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To found a national character has never been a trifling matter.
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The drapery is Greek, with one trifling variation, -- the fastening of the dress is shown upon the right shoulder.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886
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You may be a little puzzled that two of the country's biggest intelligences should be so preoccupied by such a trifling matter as the future of a second-rate footie outfit.
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Spiral grooves are impressed on inner surfaces of the barrel of every gun, a step known as rifling.
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The barrel can be rifled and this rifling causes the projectile to spin, increasing its accuracy.
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I am sensible that the mention of such a circumstance may appear trifling
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Burgundian" is the name given, since the reign of Charles VI., to those noisy detonations, the result of which is to fling upon the carpet or the clothes a little coal or ember, the trifling nucleus of
Study of a Woman
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The frame and barrel are a single casting, which allows for easy manufacturing, but poses challenges to drilling, reaming and rifling.
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A tab on the shroud engaged a small slot in the frame to prevent it from turning and the rifling twist made everything self tightening.
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His hands were rifling through her pocketbook and wallet.
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We made signals of distress to them for something to drink, which they understood; and on receiving some trifling presents of knives, and some buttons cut off our coats, they brought us a cag of good water, which we emptied in a minute, and then sent it back to be filled again.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
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I assumed he had been rifling through my wallet, and that he was now asking me trick questions.
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I perceived within myself, saying, "He is disturbed, and listens to my advice with impatience;" and, having called the sahib diwan, or lord high treasurer, in virtue of a former intimacy that subsisted between us, I stated his case and spoke so fully upon his skill and merits, that he put him in nomination for a trifling office.
The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
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The hurt or injury need not be serious or permanent but must be more than trifling or transient.
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But aside from such trifling accomplishments, the superhero is also symbolic of an era of remarkable technological change.
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Pao-yü, literary persons and pretty girls are, for the most part, brought together in marriage, through the agency of some trifling but ingenious nick-nack.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
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asteria" of Pliny (so called from their containing a movable six-rayed star), are to be had at Ratnapoora and for very trifling sums.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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I can still see his slight frame darting past defenders and rifling over points with unerring ease and accuracy.
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All guns still have the mirror-smooth polygonal rifling that produces such fine accuracy with jacketed bullets.
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And, O my Guardian Angel, too remissive of thy Charge! why had I not some secret Warnings of my future Fate? why did I range so long in Foreign Courts, in search of trifling Pleasures, and unavailing Knowledge, while my
The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress
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Those who disclaim trifling and obvious qualities are called humbugs and are more contemptible; and sometimes this seems to be boastfulness, like the Spartan dress; for both excess and great deficiency are boastful.
The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
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But this servant then met a fellow servant who owed him a trifling sum.
Times, Sunday Times
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This allows a tight brush or patch to correctly follow the rifling twist for better cleaning.
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It was such a trifling sum of money to argue about!
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It is the relationship between the street thug, Arnold, and the siblings that awakens the sleeping racism within this trifling trichotomy.
Eat, Drink, and Be from Mississippi (copy)
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The fermentive action of the bile is trifling; it dissolves fats, to a certain extent, and is antiseptic, that is, it prevents putrefaction to which the chyme might be liable; it also seems to act as a natural purgative.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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Unprepared for such transgressions, the sort of penances handed out by the confession booths suddenly seemed rather trifling.
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Because of its greater technological complexity and problems of scale, it took longer for the advantages of rifling, then breech-loading, and then rapid firing to be applied to artillery.
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It is a trifling matter on a weekend when there will be a momentous meeting of the Old Firm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost penniless, she bequeathed a "few trifling memorials' to friends.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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It is a pity that such an ability as him should be employed about such trifling matters.
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For a very long time I could barely distinguish one coin from another, and would spend countless hours at cash registers painstakingly rifling through the contents of my wallet like a senile woman.
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The sign on the door tells the visitor he can have a tooth extracted for a trifling sum.
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In the third place, Her Majesty's authorities are not concentrating a military force at the Grand Falls; the same trifling force of sixteen men is now stationed at the post of the Grand Falls which has been stationed there for the last twelvemonth.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
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You end up with ministers claiming that they were too busy and important to pay attention to trifling matters, such as declaring 100,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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S & Ws gain-twist rifling should help conventionally constructed bullets, and reduce throat wear.
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Or perhaps he is shot with a Winchester rifle, this being the usual mode of despatching a friend who has asked another to put him out of the world on account, perhaps, of some trifling but troublesome ailment such as earache or neuralgia, which the sufferer imagines to be incurable. [
From Paris to New York by Land
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It was such a trifling sum of money to argue about!
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He drew from his pocket a sheet of folded paper and placed upon the end of his nose his famous gold 'lorgnon': "It is very trifling, one of those directives, as
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The advantage claimed for cut rifling is that it creates no stresses within the barrel because nothing is bashed, pounded, or stretched.
Roll Out the Barrel
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In a high magnification boroscope, most stainless rifling looks like a polished mirror while most chrome moly rifling looks a little more like a plowed corn field, especially in stamped out prodution barrels like those used on over-the-counter retail rifles.
Stainless Steel Barrels - Are they worth the extra cost?
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I thought the "trifling trichotomy" was kinda clever, too!
Eat, Drink, and Be from Mississippi (copy)
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It (the race welfare) alone corresponds to the profoundness with which it is felt, to the seriousness with which it appears, to the importance which it attributes even to the trifling details of its sphere and occasion.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Both Morris and Pemberton noted the first small submission, the trifling point of the acceptance of a name.
LOHENGRIN
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The extra money had gone, I couldn't exactly say how, in sundry "trifling expenditures," such as pomatum, a scarf-pin, and a steel chain for my waistcoat, all of which it had seemed no harm to indulge in, especially as they were very cheap, under my altered circumstances.
My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life
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Also, Most of the air flow across the rifling grooves is inconsequential since most of the bearing surface is in the boundary layer created behind the ogive.
Best caliber for 600+ yard shots
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Fortunately, the stormy waves caused trifling damage to the boat.
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a "bibliomane" who in his dreams supposes himself to be purchasing "early editions on vellum" for "trifling" sums (18). close window
'Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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The Englishman can no more be trifling and light-hearted in the Gallic manner than a Polar bear can dance the _maxixe brésilienne_ in the jungle.
Nights in London
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We are not talking trifling sums here.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sign on the door tells the visitor he can have a tooth extracted for a trifling sum.
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Those who disclaim trifling and obvious qualities are called humbugs and are more contemptible; and sometimes this seems to be boastfulness, like the
The Nicomachean Ethics
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Also, I failed to mention that I have tweaked my C.O.A.L. a bit, putting the ogive of my Sierra's closer to the rifling.
Field & Stream
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And yet to save a trifling outlay compared with the injustice now done, the representative of Her Majesty is compelled to carry about under his skirts a parcel of convictism; to deposit these tokens of imperial interest he is driven to have recourse to artifice, trickery and falsehood.
A Source Book of Australian History
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But human rights are not trifling matters and the EU, if it is to remain true to its founding principles, must not gloss over such matters.
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Why does this sort of trifling semantic difference matter?
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Refrain from killing knowingly even the trifling insects like a louse, a bug or a mosquito.
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Sure enough, the surveillance set-up soon captured the toff ne'er-do-well rifling Allen's wallet.
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It definitely is worth the joy of leaving a bank over something as seemingly trifling as a 6 charge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Harriet (will you ask) mean l x by thus trifling with you, and at this time particu-larly?
Sir Charles Grandison
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A 23 year old with big hair, a spray-on tan, and no discernible history of ever having to actually work for the riches she's received will be signing books while I'm rifling my car for change to buy my next cup of coffee.
Jane Devin: A Writer's Rant About Simon & Schuster's Dip Into the Celebrity Cesspool
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Without appearing to suggest anything beyond a trifling blemish in this story, replete as it is with edifying illustrations of the frailties of human nature, it would be well to remember that the helmet shell (CASSIS FLAMMEA) is not nacreous and could not therefore produce a true pearl, but merely g porcellaneous concretion, which, however, might possess a most attractive tint, possibly pale salmon or orange.
Tropic Days
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We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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What Halberstam and Berube share, ultimately, is a plain impatience with if not disdain for trifling old literature.
Satirical
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We were to make for Chigwell in four glass coaches, each with a trifling company of six or eight inside, and a little boy belonging to the projectors on the box — and to start from the residence of the projectors, Woburn – place, Russell – square, at half – past ten precisely.
Sketches by Boz
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The telescope makes claims for the internet look trifling.
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This is not some trifling matter.
The Sun
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This figure now seems trifling in relation to recent double-digit domestic energy cost rises.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any perceived manipulation of honours for political purposes is no trifling matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
The Return of the Native
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There is some conventional wisdom that says, for varmint rifles, simply seat the bullet to touch the rifling.
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I went quietly about the room, picking up the discarded clothes, straightening the trifling disorder on the table, putting fresh charcoal in the brazier, adding a pinch of elecampane to sweeten the smoke.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Suddenly my concerns about looking a bit sweaty in public feel rather trifling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dressed as I was in the mollah bashis clothes, my first care was to make such alterations in them that they should not hold me up to suspicion, and this I did for a trifling expense at an old clothes shop, although, at the same time, I took care not to part with any of the valuable articles which had fallen into my possession.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
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The Foster slugs have very shallow rifling and since these slugs obturate in shotgun bores, most of these grooves are ironed out in the process.
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There are too many penalties in the game, and too many for trifling infringements.
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To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain;’ and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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She was celebrated for her poetic talent, her stunning beauty during her youth, her trifling with amorous men, and her suffering from decrepitude and destitution in old age.
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Have they not, as Paul says, become vain in their disputations, always trifling about universals, formalities, connotations, and various other foolish words?
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It is not very easy to see how such very trifling surnames as this last came into existence, but its exiguity is surpassed in the case of a prominent French airman who bears the appropriately buoyant name of
The Romance of Names
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There is a general keeping in this gorgeous equipage, which is highly creditable to the taste of the marchioness, for the marquis, "good easy man," (though a Bruce), he is too much engaged preserving his game at Ro-er-n park, and keeping up the game in St. St.phen's (where his influence is represented by no less than eight "sound men and true"), to attend to these trifling circumstances.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
