Example Sentences

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Why did you teach that fatal mouth to draw, Child, impermissible awe, From your old trivialness?

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

Her thoughts, affections, desires and occupations never rise above trivialness.

From Serious Hours of a Young Lady by Sainte-Foi, Charles