Be serious with the serious, gay with the gay, and trifle with the triflers. |
Our suspicion that his was not a room for triflers was confirmed by the wine list, which had the heft of a big-city phone book. |
The officers, almost all nobles, rarely showed much concern for their men, and were often mere courtiers and triflers. |
I have read and known certain kabbalistic triflers, whose insanity provokes my unceasing as astonishment. |
But this minority was denounced by the orthodox as innovators and triflers. |
Once the poets and the sages were held to be pleasing triflers, fit for hours of relaxation in the lulls of war. |