She paused and, in a different tone, went on: "Don't you think it's rather rotten to have this piffling argument when I've come all this long way to see you?"
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
Compared with her calamities, half of which would have been the stock-in-trade of a Greek dramatist wherewith to wring tears from mankind for a couple of thousand years, what were his own piffling grievances?
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
The desire had stung him all the time, and every now and then he must have yielded to it, stealing away from the piffling duties of the magazine office-spat on popular art, so to speak-and shut himself away somewhere to forget and to do.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick