trifle away

"There are more cafes in Paris than one, at which to trifle away an idle hour."

As it was, he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without benefit from books or anything else.

After all, it cannot be said that we trifled away our time in thoughtless or even wanton play.'

Gentlemen, is the happiness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away, by such shallow artifices as these?

His family was rather wealthy, however after his father died, the wealth was quickly trifled away by family members.

No less the New Englander than Adams, Dana was equally ill suited to trifling away his time.

One of the images seemed to drift a trifle away from the others; sweating, he unclutched his gyros and nudged the ship by flywheel.

He merely closed his tired eyes and at the same time let his lower lip fall a trifle away from the upper, as his breath came brokenly between them.

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.

Just as I got into the woods, he came up and told me to stop my cart, and that he would teach me how to trifle away my time, and break gates.

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed."

Not only was the fiber rubbery, as Boranova had said, so that it compressed slightly under the force of the collision, then rebounded, pushing the ship a trifle away - but the slimy intercellular fluid served as a cushion and a friction reducer.

He saw also clearly enough that if the month of September were, to be trifled away in unsatisfactory negotiations, as the month which preceded it had been, it would be difficult in October to strike a blow at the house of Austria on the side of Carinthia.

Living High on Illicit Cash Adding to the public's outrage at the idea of politicians trifling away millions of dollars of illicit contributions over a mah-jongg table is the fact that Mr. Kanemaru appears to have diverted huge amounts of political contributions for his personal use.