Hall can't stop us agreeing with Auden that Max was a trifler.
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He had been called a dawdler and a trifler and a do-nothing.
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But Percy was not entirely a trifler, as a few weeks after proved.
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He had been called a dawdler and a trifler and a do-nothing.
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Sometimes he really is a trifler, but for some things he is very reliable.
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As long as you are no trifler you will be welcome at my wagon.
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Last night, and most of the time today, you were the trifler, the incorrigible jester.
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It is also used in reference to the trifler and dabbler in art and science.
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Oh, Mr. Westrip, I wish you'd try to find the last number of the trifler.
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He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant.
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What was to be done in Ireland was not work for a trifler or a dupe.
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He cannot afford to be a trifler or a loiterer on the way, but must push on continually.
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Thus we learn, to nobody's very great surprise, that he was a depressive, a drunk whose intake makes, say, the late Kingsley Amis look like the merest tap-room trifler.
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Born in Maryland, she later moved to Washington, where she attended high school and normal school, from which she graduated in 1882. She then taught in the public schools, specializing in mathematics. She married educator Francis Ransom Lane in 1891. She started writing at age 16, when she also started an occasionally published magazine called The Trifler.
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He was born on 28 September 1770 at Broughton, Oxfordshire, the youngest son of Thomas Twisleton, later Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele. He was educated at Westminster School, where he was a scholar, played cricket and other sports, and participated in The Trifler, a periodical, with John Hensleigh Allen and others. He matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford on 2 February 1789, aged 18, graduating B.A. in 1794, and M.A. 1796. Twisleton was ordained in 1795, and became a curate at Charwelton.
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After the publication of Cathay, Pound mentioned that he was working on a long poem; in September 1915 he described it as a "cryselephantine poem of immeasurable length which will occupy me for the next four decades unless it becomes a bore".Moody (2007), 306–307 In February 1916, when Pound was 30, the poet Carl Sandburg paid tribute to him in Poetry magazine. Pound "stains darkly and touches softly", he wrote: Pound by E. O. Hoppé on the cover of Pavannes and Divisions (1918) > All talk on modern poetry, by people who know, ends with dragging in Ezra > Pound somewhere. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, > poseur, trifler and vagrant.
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