Some facts that looked large were small; other factors, mere trifles, were highly important.

The worthy captain took advantage of his enthusiasm to charge double fares; but we did not trouble ourselves about mere trifles.

In this weird trail of death, the merest trifles might prove important.

But these were mere trifles, and they assured their mother that the experiment was working finely.

While some accounts are mere trifles - New York will not return any account worth less than $3.01 - many are quite large.

Dr. Carr considered his other works to be mere trifles on which he set little value.

He always worries about me, and moddley-coddleys in the merest trifles.

These were mere trifles compared with the royal title I coveted.

Although, often, peculiar things may be the merest trifles.

But rivers see decades, even centuries, as mere trifles.