insignificancy
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For my part, I never return so much into myself, as when I think of you, whose friendship is one of the best comforts I have for the insignificancy of myself.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
Many I know will be inclined to smile at the insignificancy of the cause pointed out.
From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Samuel Wilderspin
The revolution had entered into a new phase, the Legislative Assembly had become the Constituent Assembly, which despoiled the monarchy of the last appearance of power and degraded it to a mere insignificancy.
From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
If you take notice, there is hardly a rich man in the world who has not such a led friend of small consideration, who is a darling for his insignificancy.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Henry Cabot Lodge
Pleased, as I gazed upon thy lofty brow Where Nature seems her loveliest robes to wear, I felt that Pride at such a scene must bow, And own its insignificancy there.
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Eliza Paul Gurney
It is therefore completely indifferent whether such insignificancies are duly vouched for by documents, or, as in the romance, invented to suit the character and ascribed to this or that name and circumstances.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
On my entrance, his highness motioned to me to sit beside him, and through the medium of the interpreters began with some commonplace courtly insignificancies, as a prelude to more interesting conversation.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
This was for Gibbon or Carlyle, rather than for my potboiling insignificancies.
From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
It is he who sits in busy and brooding anxiety over his speculations, wrinkled, perhaps, by care, and sobered by years into an utter distaste for the splendors and insignificancies of fashionable life.”
From Sowing and Reaping by Dwight Lyman Moody
