The pianist played the difficult bagatelle with surprising ease. From LearnThat.org.
A bagatelle is a short piece of music, usually for piano, and with a light mellow character. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
'bagatelle', the player's demands to leave Old Trafford are guaranteed to overshadow the game at the Britannia Stadium. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And here is a gift from myself, a mere bagatelle, but. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
"This is a mere bagatelle!" eagerly laughed lady Feng. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Last time I was here I wanted money, a mere bagatelle to you. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
“A mere matter of detail, a bagatelle,” said J.T. Maston. From Wordnik.com. [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference
That which occurred was a mere bagatelle to what was threatened. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference
In the evening Spahi officers came to the bar to play bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Yet the government could not dismiss the outrage as a bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Any bombardment this world has ever known was a mere bagatelle to this. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
After all, in the face of death, financial ruin seemed a mere bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
Besides being so convenient the cost of the apparatus is a mere bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
It's a bagatelle -- very mild, compared to some of the stuff we've been getting. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
But when you've been called on to play as many parts as I have, it's a bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
I know that and I also know they will vote for McLame, anyway, so it's all a bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [Oregon Exit Polls: Obama Handily Beat Hillary Among Whites, No-College, Less-Than-$50,000 Voters] Reference
TWP is neither Brooklyn-Gone-North, nor cultural bagatelle for bored, wealthy summer folk. From Wordnik.com. [Risa Shoup: Converse Welcome, But Not Required] Reference
"I humbly appeal to you all," said Bertram in seriocomic tone, "is my rotundity a mere bagatelle?". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
Merely for the payment of a trivial sum, a bagatelle, they would soon have Bobby back, safely home. From Wordnik.com. ['For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb] Reference
The four balls, with which they played, were not much bigger than those generally used at bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
It is not yet too late to supply this defect, and the expense to government would be a mere bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829] Reference
But to such a bagatelle as the likes or dislikes of a parcel of children Miss Timms-Kelly paid small heed. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
But all this is but a bagatelle to the fashions in deformity which we find among nearly all American women. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
N.Y. city, a large bagatelle board with marbles, for a collection of not less than 300 foreign stamps only. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
Polden, with a bowler hat and a white collar, with the mere bagatelle of a thousand or two head of sheep!. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
This was a mere bagatelle to what Miss Eliza would say if she knew What had happened at the January Cotillion!. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
The thing is, it's true, a mere trifle, and the amount only a bagatelle, but it doesn't seem to be quite proper. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
He realized that two miles a minute was a mere bagatelle to the pace now accomplished by the runaway locomotive. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
A good illustration of the transmission of wave-motion may be shown with a number of ivory bagatelle or billiard balls. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The Crown is side lined and the people who answered our call when we were on our knees are treated as a mere bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
He could, of course, spend his money at the rate of £2,000 a year, a mere bagatelle in these days of fantastic, senseless luxury. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
We were all well mounted, our horses were fresh and full of vigor, and to all but one of us the ride itself was the merest bagatelle. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Cheapside, having invested some money in two desks, several pairs of richly-plated candlesticks, a dinner epergne, and a bagatelle-board. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
The question of the franchise was a bagatelle: a soap-bubble would have been pretext enough for war when the right hour and moment arrived. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
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