At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle Bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by a strange caprice of his employer's was admitted to table though the position of that
insignificant individual was such as could certainly not have caused him to expect that honor.
The tall masts holding aloft the white canvas, spread out like a snare for catching the invisible power of the air, emerge gradually from the water, sail after sail, yard after yard, growing big, till, under the towering structure of her machinery, you perceive the
insignificant, tiny speck of her hull.
As for himself, he would in this case be but an
insignificant instrument chosen by God.
"I can't describe how I felt when I was standing there, waiting my turn to be registered -- as
insignificant as the teeniest drop in a most enormous bucket.
If a part is
insignificant, the greater our credit in making anything of it.
But that the end of it, like the Rhine, was very
insignificant, proved, in his opinion, the author's want of invention; he was without genius, etc.
The pride and obstinacy of millers and other
insignificant people, whom you pass unnoticingly on the road every day, have their tragedy too; but it is of that unwept, hidden sort that goes on from generation to generation, and leaves no record,--such tragedy, perhaps, as lies in the conflicts of young souls, hungry for joy, under a lot made suddenly hard to them, under the dreariness of a home where the morning brings no promise with it, and where the unexpectant discontent of worn and disappointed parents weighs on the children like a damp, thick air, in which all the functions of life are depressed; or such tragedy as lies in the slow or sudden death that follows on a bruised passion, though it may be a death that finds only a parish funeral.
In the account of Abyssinia, and the continuation, the authors have been followed with more exactness, and as few passages appeared either
insignificant or tedious, few have been either shortened or omitted.
"Only those very
insignificant ones of Victuals and Drink."(answered she.)
Then their brother, who was a little
insignificant dwarf, went out to seek for his brothers: but when he had found them they only laughed at him, to think that he, who was so young and simple, should try to travel through the world, when they, who were so much wiser, had been unable to get on.
(and it could not have been
insignificant), its period of occultation continued.
Besides the trees, the number of plants is exceedingly limited, and consists of
insignificant weeds.