How To Use Puny In A Sentence
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I filled him up with tarry spunyarn, nailed sheet copper round him, bent some parts in the fire; and we are paying-in without more trouble now.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
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Surely, as this puny, completely drunk man lay on top of that poor child, any one of them could have yanked him off?
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All the youngsters look terribly puny, as if they need to sign up for a bodybuilding course.
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Acerbic performance practices and pinched, puny instrumentation made these works seem severe.
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I'll have to shoot a deer at Thanksgiving with my 338 from stem to stern to see if I can get the bullet back, and show you guys that the big X bullets are expanding, even in puny deer.
The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot
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But such a weak, puny, wailing princelet as he was!
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
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Don't pit your puny wit against my massive intelligence.
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Sama halnya seperti jika kalian mempunyai satu termos air jeruk segar, maka kalian tidak akan menuangkannya ke dalam gelas yang kotor untuk meminumnya, ya kan?
Planet Terasi
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The period in force is to be for the duration necessary forOUR military of all OUR nations to depose the puny yes-men'encharged 'with our military' chains of command 'to carry out the orders ofthe puppets put in position to rule all our countries for the benefit of the international vermin who install and pay them and thus exercise their tyranny over us all.
ATTENTION! WE DEMAND MARTIAL LAW!
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Of the hands forward, some of the watch were aloft, working at odd jobs about the rigging, while the drowsy clinking of a spunyarn winch somewhere on the forecastle, in the shadow of the head sails, accounted for the remainder.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
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The play is to be perceived as a satire on big business, which these piddling rogues try to emulate and, in their puny way, supposedly mirror.
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The answer that, ‘We are too puny to understand the purposes of God’ is not an explanation.
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Jarvis Cocker: "Why do they call a puny person a weed, when weeds are tenacious plants that grow in adverse circumstances?
Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body
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Also it came with a rather puny dab of sour cream.
Times, Sunday Times
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And in that time, in a large cage of concrete and iron, Ben Bolt had exercised and recovered the use of his muscles, and added to his hatred of the two-legged things, puny against him in themselves, who by trick and wile had so helplessly imprisoned him.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Instead of countering these puny charges, let me just say that these allegations of inferior innards recall those of the phrenologists and racial purists in one of the darkest eras of modern history.
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He has a puny physique, so he cannot be only an action hero,.
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When he got home, he went to the kitchen looking for Puny and saw instead an unusual sight in his backyard.
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The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village.
The Nigger of the Narcissus
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A puny midwife fumbles with exploding plaster wombs, plastic foetuses, rubber birth canals and disintegrating umbilical cords.
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The biceps of Hercules was a puny affair when he rolled about in swaddling-clothes.
Jack London: On the Writer's Philosophy of Life
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Babylon the great and its superior people greet you. I, Hammurabi, desire peace with all my neighbors - even your puny culture.
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My lack of faith and fear about writing now seemed puny and indefensible.
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A starter confit of duck turned out to be one very puny, dry and underseasoned duck leg which tasted roasted not preserved in salt and fat as a proper confit should be.
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Plauen and the Safire attacked the Toal with the puny spells at their command.
The Swordbearer
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Their thigh muscles are long and lean but their upper bodies can sometimes appear puny.
The Sun
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Puny though he looked, he was as brave as a lion.
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But a too short, too skinny, too old quarterback with a puny arm could be changing that.
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More unusually for a great entrepreneur, the Commodore was neither small nor puny.
Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
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About five minutes after she started I cut the spunyarn.
Doctor Luke of the Labrador
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Our efforts look puny beside Fred's.
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After a few hours, the muscles on my pathetically puny arms were beginning to ache.
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Yet their puny efforts to resist the invader brought upon them death and destruction out of all proportion to any military accomplishment.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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As a kind of farewell to 2003, I wrote a little squib for Warren Ellis this morning, as part of a series of ruminations on the future that he's putting together on Die Puny Humans.
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You've got muscly legs, which are the size of pins, and muscly arms, which are puny!
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Their thigh muscles are long and lean but their upper bodies can sometimes appear puny.
The Sun
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He was a puny little thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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They often don't offer tourists sambal in restaurants, presuming our puny systems can't handle the heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the new post-Anderton age, the fireworks were quite puny and the brave pipers on the roof had their skirls lost in the wind.
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The summer rains in Britain may feel like a complete washout, but they look puny compared with elsewhere in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Years pass, and the wild, reckless Ishmael is seen ridiculing Isaac, his puny brother and coheir.
Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?
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It had to be puny if a relatively weak top break handgun mechanism could safely hold it.
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Grendel, a puny lean man with a wicked narrow face and a long nose, was enjoying a pink bubbling liquid in a gold bath.
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Yet say that sort of Englishmen where of I told you, that is puny and sore adread, that the Lond is poisonous and barren and of no avail, for that Lond is much more hotter than it is here.
Letters to Dead Authors
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But at the same time, its efforts appear puny compared with the scale of the problem.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a puny drive and paltry track record, he has only accuracy off the tee to commend him, but it has not prevented the galleries accepting him as one of their own.
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His size might've been puny, but his strength and his lust for battle made up for it all.
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It is a reminder that for all that the human race has accomplished in increasing its power over the environment, it is still puny in the face of the great natural forces.
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We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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Can you imagine Sachin Tendulkar being reduced to tears by some puny little coach?
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I thought of shouting "Dad!" but the word somehow seemed too puny.
My father the superhero
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That's when our own efforts can seem puny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Severe infections result in pale, puny reds and weak whites.
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Puny had left baked chicken, and green beans cooked with new potatoes, one of his favorite meals.
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Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin berkata, dasar berkenaan mempunyai enam teras strategik, termasuk menubuhkan pusat keusahawanan di setiap IPT untuk merancang, menyelaras, memantau dan menilai program serta aktiviti pendidikan keusahawanan.
Utusan Online
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He did not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always had good health.
Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius
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At a gut level, however, $35 million sounds puny compared to the devastation in the region.
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While America is being purposely distracted by Bush's puny, paltry and poor-spirited "War on Terror" and Noah is out shopping for Gucci knock-offs at Target instead of keeping an eye on the ark, our country is being left defenseless, unprotected and without lifeboats while the biggest Flood ever is rapidly heading our way.
Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat & Crowded": Replacing the "War on Terror" with a "War on Global Warming"?
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This is no hard-and-fast rule, but: Isn't that the phrase extraterrestrial armadas always use--right before they blast the puny humans to kingdom come?
Faces Of The Week: Jan 16-20 Forbes Faces Of The Week: Jan 16-20
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Our relatively puny magnetic field holds the Solar Wind at bay, at the magnetopause, a distance of 60,000 km from Earth.
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Gila buruk sial dia punya postcard. * falls off chair laughing*
Natinski Diary Entry
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Mayat seorang lelaki yang hanya berseluar dalam dan mempunyai tatu ditemui terdampar di tepi pantai dekat Pantai Geting, di sini.
Utusan Online
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As in his cubhood he had been made to feel his smallness and puniness on the day he first came in from the Wild to the village of Grey Beaver, so now, in his full-grown stature and pride of strength, he was made to feel small and puny.
The Southland
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But more than the well-prepared blue-chip comfort food, the real joy of a dinner chez Puny is watching the man himself perform.
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Have grandiose aims but puny abilities, great ambition but little talent.
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This was more for effect than from any defect of vision, for he was as sharp as a needle; and could see a bit of spunyarn adrift or a rope out of place aloft even quicker than the commander, keen-sighted as he was.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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The Viking soldiers tried to attack but most had fled and the others were weak and puny.
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puny excuses
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To this she sayd it was not the wysest counsell to appoint her servantes to comptrolle her in her owne howse, and that her servantes knew her mynde therin well ynough, for of all men she might wurst endure any of them to move her in any suche mattiers, and for their punyshment my Lordes may use them as they think good. 87
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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He'd bought shares in various companies, attended shareholders 'meetings and "quizzed" the directors about their puny return (it said in my cuttings file).
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Abaft that again was the sail-room, well-stocked with bolts of canvas of varying degrees of coarseness and several sails, many of which seemed to be quite new, neatly rolled up into long bundles, stopped with spunyarn, and each labelled legibly with the description of the sail.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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Third, stay in the book business long enough to change the market dynamic and plow all those pitifully puny stores under.
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Despite being puny, I could beat all the boys at school.
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They put up little or no fight, either - they just aim a puny punch at your hero, who then blocks and either stuns or kills them.
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Next to the two-horse cultivator, it was a blunt and puny tool, a simple adjustable V that runs between the rows, teeth on the bottom, a clevis for the horse at the pointy end and handles for the humans behind.
The Dirty Life
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The reaction so far has been a sweeping condemnation of the team's hitters, who are described as inept and puny and feeble.
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On the highway, you can get quite a thrill overtaking all those puny vehicles passing for buses.
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They have been called aloof, spineless, uncoordinated, strung out, two-faced, and puny—and by some of the most respected scientists in the world.
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Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of
Ulysses
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It would probably be hydroponic lettuce garnished with a few puny tomatoes that I have eked out of the bulldust in my backyard.
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He was an old hand who had been at sea so long that he seemed to smell of salt water and tar; while his face was like a piece of pickled beef covered with a quantity of hair that resembled spunyarn more than anything else, being as stiff and wiry as an untwisted rope.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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Through the puny window of this train called life, what we see is just our own morning blues, afternoon lows, sagging hopes and soaring mercury.
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Amid these careless warders glided the puny form of a little old Turk, poorly dressed like a marabout or santon of the desert — a sort of enthusiasts, who sometimes ventured into the camp of the Crusaders, though treated always with contumely, and often with violence.
The Talisman
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My kouhai (juniors) kat sini, kalau tak tengahari takkan bangun punya.
Kieli Diary Entry
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But Stack carries the comic weight of the show on his puny underdeveloped shoulders and succeeds as an Atlas of anarchy.
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A white Mustang was reported heading away from the Lorraine at a high speed within a half hour of the shooting, and witnesses reported seeing a sharp-faced, puny white man in the area.
Burial for a King
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The puny flatscreen telly doesn't cut the rock'n'roll mustard.
Times, Sunday Times
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She and her husband had an ailing child, born healthy but then turned puny and unthrifty.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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a puny physique
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For the coral, they lower down a swab, composed of what is called spunyarn on board our ships of war, hanging in distinct threads, and sunk by means of a great weight, which, striking against the coral in its descent, disengages it from the rocks; and some of the pieces being intangled among the threads of the swab, are brought up with it above water.
Travels through France and Italy
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By any historical standard this has been a puny recovery with little or no feel-good factor.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘housewife’ and ‘hussey’; ‘hanaper’ and ‘hamper’; ‘puisne’ and ‘puny’;
English Past and Present
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Encouraged by his brother Tim, Clifford Possum, who had already begun teaching woodcarving at the settlement, joined Bardon's painting group, which later became the Papunya Tula Artists Company.
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All twelve of Devil fighters scrambled and accelerated to top speed and engaged the puny defences of Sky Base Beta.
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Your pathetic and puny mind is incapable of any true thought, and merely lurches from situation to situation.
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She was awarded a puny ￡1,000 in compensation.
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We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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Passengers called to him; their voices were puny against the whine of the storm and the crackle of cooling metal.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Finally, there's a shot of my two daughters, arms around each others’ necks, proudly displaying a puny little bullhead that got tangled in their line while fishing off the Berkeley pier.
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What a puny little creature!
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Their gigantic footballers have seen off the puny English opposition.
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The new always looks so small, so puny, so unpromising next to the size and performance of maturity.
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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Father never really liked me, because I was weak and puny, the smallest amongst all my siblings.
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A meagre, whitish soil, thirsty and unrecuperative, afforded grudging sustenance to a puny, grotesque growth of blackjack and chincapin, even the renovating pine -- the badge of the State -- being in many places a rarity.
"The Free Negroes of North Carolina"
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Delightful haven to pigeon-hearted malefactors -- inconsistent criminals, who fear the puny look of mortal man, and, unabashed, stalk beneath the eternal and the killing frown of God.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
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Why so? for the power whyche fortune had geuen vs, it to consume in the punyshement of them whom the same fortune a lytle before had set in hyeste degree, were agaynste reason.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
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Jabbing me back, exactly as the infant Cymbeline once did with her puny fists!
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Also it came with a rather puny dab of sour cream.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tangled streets surrounding the expired emporium offer little competition: just ragged lots and puny structures in even more advanced stages of decay.
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Lupa atas segala kejahatan yang telah dilakukan pemimpinnya asalkan dia punya duit banyak.
Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Soeharto’s son aims to be president?
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He did not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of octogenaries who, like M. de
Les Miserables
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So, here's one reason why we've not heard a dickybird out of ET yet: our searches so far have been puny compared with the scale effort that would be required to do a thorough audit of the Milky Way.
BBC News | Technology | World Edition
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Trees are wooden giants, towering over us puny animals.
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Their thigh muscles are long and lean but their upper bodies can sometimes appear puny.
The Sun
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It is simply not worth the hassle to deal in such a puny amount - dealing costs will take out a hefty chunk of any profit on the shares.
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Before becoming a cook in the Papunya canteen, he worked, as his name implies, as a stockman at Napperby cattle station.
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These seeming contradictions cannot be reconciled by the puny human mind.
Christianity Today
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In Angel's mind, she thought Gunther was short and puny but sweet.
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If that fails, however, I'd much rather tackle that bruin with a puny .45 than fight him off with a fly rod.
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Don't get gobby if you're puny or outnumbered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nama resmi acara itu adalah "Festival Gastronomi Kucing" dan punya sebutan "pembantaian 'moggies' (kucing).
ANTARA - Berita Terkini
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Our efforts look puny beside Fred's.
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The new guest was followed closely by a puny boy in puke - green and two heavy bumbling guys in brown.
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His rage, when it does spurt out, seems puny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Be prepared sebab nak pi servis kete sat, aku punye aircond control lever tu dah stuck kat tempat kaki aje.
Kieli Diary Entry
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One of the truly distressing studies of recent times showed that a majority of Scottish men choose to be overweight because they don't want to appear puny.
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Wasting a precious 10 minutes of airtime on a puny regional news bulletin was not going to happen.
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Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of
Ulysses
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Upon entry into this world the delivery nurse was apparently so taken with the copious mop of curly locks attached to the puny infant that she got the name wrong on the birth certificate.
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But ask them we must, for the human barbarian seeks explanations & meaning for what is inexplicable & unanswerable in the terms our puny brain can understand.
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They had been beaten by a puny little girl, at least eight inches shorter and scrawny.
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Today he will take on the puny plotters and spell out how to save Britain from economic meltdown.
The Sun
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It is to his puny praise and pathetic shopping list of desires that God, the Creator of All, elects to listen to daily.
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If he was a puny bloke, I'd carry the heavy things.
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Her list of credits would make your puny little life look like a bad joke.
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Moreover, the English bathtub, then as now, was a puny and inconvenient contrivance — little more, in fact, than a glorified dishpan — and filling and emptying it required the attendance of a servant.
Is H.L. Mencken Alive and Well at the NYT? « Isegoria
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Today he will take on the puny plotters and spell out how to save Britain from economic meltdown.
The Sun
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Many babies were too puny, sickly and "unstimulated" (un-loved) to survive.
Thanks For Our Memories
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The organized system of plunder and anarchy, exercised under different forms more or less sanguinary, produced no permanent result beyond an incontestible proof that the versatility of the French nation, and its puny suppleness of character, utterly incapacitate it for that energetic enterprise without which there can be no hope of permanent emancipation from national slavery.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7
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Coz aq punya kebiasaan kaya gitu. hildan saya suka makanan diatas tapi mengapa saya lupa masih tetap lupa
10 Makanan Pemacu Ingatan – Netsains.Com
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It was puny, totally lacking in the requisite shot of caffeine direct to the brain.
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They show how puny the supposed threat can seem, how feeble strutting columns of third world soldiery can abruptly become.
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David Pogue, has been that its offerings are "puny" -- a mere 60,000 e-books so far -- compared to what's available on the Kindle or other e-readers offered by competing retailers like Barnes
DailyFinance
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'What will they send me next! ' said Edmund Hillary's gym instructor of the puny school boy now known as the man who conquered Mount Everest.
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The play is to be perceived as a satire on big business, which these piddling rogues try to emulate and, in their puny way, supposedly mirror.
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Any potential increase in engine power will always be puny in comparison to the amount of drag faced.
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He is a dreamer, a schemer, but truth is young Ruskin is puny, skinny and, in the tradition of geeky leads, he wears glasses.
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Do my insane ramblings ring a delicate bell in your puny, thoughtless brain?
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Do you think that that woman, who sits at Barchester in high places, disgracing herself and that puny ecclesiastical lord who is her husband — do you think that she would not immure me if she could?
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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I have to say that even if the dicta were obiter, the explanation advanced by the Home Department shows a refreshing courage that many a puisne puny judge, including myself, would lack.
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The puny flatscreen telly doesn't cut the rock'n'roll mustard.
Times, Sunday Times
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My car only has a puny little engine.
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These seeming contradictions cannot be reconciled by the puny human mind.
Christianity Today
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And he that so dyd not, was punyshed with a certayne nombre of stripes, and was kept thre days without meate.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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'What will they send me next! ' said Edmund Hillary's gym instructor of the puny school boy now known as the man who conquered Mount Everest.
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Puny filled the scrub bucket and went to work with her brush.
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Two days before the 'Jessie Dodd' was put ashore I broke the wheel chain and tied the links with spunyarn.
Doctor Luke of the Labrador
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Even worse, the hotels in which our scribes were billeted were deemed ‘puny’.
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Skuad Perancis tidak mempunyai jersey ke-3 dikejohanan Piala Dunia 78, disebabkan oleh pertembungan warna baju dengan pihak lawan dan kehendak penyiaran TV, skuad Perancis selaku pasukan pelawat meminjam baju belang hijau, putih sebuah kelab kecil dari liga daerah bandar Mar del Plata, Kimberly FC.
France World Cup 1978 Argentina
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It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
Gerry Canavan
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Mr. Hawley, he laffed kind of puny and feeble like there was somethin 'furrin weighin' onto his stomach.
Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis
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On the 22d of August, 1696, this baby, a puny, fretful boy, was carried down the street of Port Royal, Jamaica, and on board the "barkentine
Stories of Childhood
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The summer rains in Britain may feel like a complete washout, but they look puny compared with elsewhere in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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No poser attitude with Diane, she just got on with the job and proved her worth to Papunya Community, not to mention the kids, many times over.
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In Irving's short story, the Hessian was killed by a cannon ball rather than a bunch of puny colonials.
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Our efforts look puny beside Fred's.
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Have grandiose aims but puny abilities, great ambition but little talent.
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Japanese policemen's guns are small and sort of puny.
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James Brown has funk power, and had it even when his bands were playing through puny PA systems in rooms that were too large for them.
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The females, for whom size apparently does matter, find the males puny and unappealing.