At this thought, however, the paltriness of such revenge struck him with horror, and with a hasty impulse he snapped the pipe in two, and flung the pieces on the ground in front of the apple-stall.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
The opportunity of contrasting the paltriness of earth with the sublimity and reality of the unseen was too great to be resisted.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
All this homage helped Jared to gloss over the paltriness of their actual check.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller