| 1. | Just a trifle more, I fancy, Watson. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Maybe I'm a growing a trifle old besides.. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | "Oh, a trifle of sea-sickness--I've been staying in my berth. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 4. | It was merely a trifle abridged. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | "Speak up--just a trifle louder. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 6. | She is a trifle stouter, and her cheeks are a lovely rose-pink. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 7. | "'Oh I was expecting you, but you are a trifle before your time. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | "A trifle more of that man," he would say, "and I shall explode.. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 9. | A trifle made him blush at any time and now he felt warm and excited. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 10. | "He trifles here," said he, "as to the temptation. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 11. | I must not be trifled with, and I demand an answer. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 12. | A mockery, indeed, but in which his soul trifled with itsel. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 13. | Pugnacity over trifles costs the average Muscular many business chances. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 14. | is it Dispense with trifles what is i. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 15. | That I some lady trifles have reserv'd. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 16. | But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 17. | His tyranny for trifles his own bastardy. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 18. | She prizes not such trifles as these are. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |