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On my entrance, his highness motioned to me to sit beside him, and through the medium of the interpreters began with some commonplace courtly insignificancies, as a prelude to more interesting conversation. 

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

It is he who sits in busy and brooding anxiety over his speculations, wrinkled, perhaps, by care, and sobered by years into an utter distaste for the splendors and insignificancies of fashionable life.”

From Sowing and Reaping by Moody, Dwight Lyman

It is therefore completely indifferent whether such insignificancies are duly vouched for by documents, or, as in the romance, invented to suit the character and ascribed to this or that name and circumstances.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

This was for Gibbon or Carlyle, rather than for my potboiling insignificancies.

From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon