| 1. | How can you deliberately get up such paltry falsehood. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 2. | But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 3. | "Oh, merely a paltry fifty louis.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | About a hoop of gold, a paltry rin. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | I have a horror of a paltry wedding. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from _duty_ and _humanity. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 7. | I'll pit him against that paltry creature, unless it bestir itself briskly. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 8. | be our messenger to this paltry knight. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |