petty sum

Example Sentences

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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

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