But more trivial causes have given rise - and that no long while ago - to consequences equally eventful.

To think we may sink into barbarism for so trivial a cause.

He was not to be awakened for trivial causes, and certainly not by accident.

Nearly all the shooting affrays arise from the most trivial causes in saloons and bar-rooms.

It could happen that entire worlds would be annihilated for trivial causes.

These must be the most prudent rebels with trivial causes that the nation has ever thrown up.

I wanted to get drunk, to cross epees with someone over some trivial cause, to be in finamor, to be back in my old apartment.

He knew that at any time, and for any trivial cause, the love which the mob bore him would readily turn to hate.

It seems a trivial cause to you but you don't see through this man's eyes.

Most unlikely; Casmir, a practical man, wasted no emotion on trivial causes.