petty sum

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Perhaps a petty sum is all; but, to the austere justice of banking, this is as bad, nay, worse than millions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

The lives of those which we have lost in fight Be counterpois'd with such a petty sum!

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

Five thousand dollars is no petty sum, and the discrepancy in the two sets of figures which seemed to involve me in so considerable a loss set me thinking.

From Agatha Webb by Green, Anna Katharine