trite remark
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He vaguely realized an indirect confession expressed in that trite remark made by Rosas.
From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts
One by one the shams had yielded to his prying gaze, and, but too well, he knew the truth of Tom Moore's trite remark, "False the light on glory's plume!"
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Richard Savage
A trite remark, but the only one that occurred to her.
From One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
It began loftily with the words, "It is a trite remark," a phrase which seemed to the boy very masterful.
From Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach
Lees had been no great favorite of late, and it had been the trite remark for a year that he was looking like death; but at this juncture the tidings came ominously enough.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend
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