With the harvest over the farmer would fill the less hectic winter hours with the unending minutia of the farm.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
And this is shown even in the excessive refinement and elaboration of trifles, the minutia of reflection, the keenness of analysis, the unrelenting pursuit of every social topic into subtleties untouched by the older essayists.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner
I leave this place to-morrow morning in company with a friend of the name of Bowles: no relation to the reverend gentleman of that name who held the doctrine that a poet should bore us to death with fiddle-faddle minutia of natural objects in preference to that study of the insignificant creature Man, in his relations to his species, to which Mr. Pope limited the range of his inferior muse; and who, practising as he preached, wrote some very nice verses, to which the Lake school and its successors are largely indebted.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton