If his puling wife were to die I might condescend to succeed her, but that is not just now within the limits of the probable.
A while since that sufficed to keep her handsome and cheery, and there she sits now a poor, little, pale, puling chit enough.
Mrs. Northey continued viciously, "I've seen you puling and pining and making Wortley eyes at him these three weeks.
As for you, you white-faced puling thing, I should like to know who you are that you should not be glad of a good match when it is offered you?
The other phrase was in a scene of Banks's puling tragedy, "The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex.
You turn the sheets of THE DAWN, and it is the manhood of the land addressing you, no longer that alternately puling and insolent cry of the coffers.
He passed with a shrug Nevil's pulingoutcry for the enemy as well as our own poor fellows: 'At his steppes again!
But these puling lovers--I cannot but laugh at them, and their encomiums of their mistresses.
I've never puled in this world, thank God, and let come what will, I ain't going to begin puling in the next.
Why, until this evening, have I gone puling about my life as if such things as disgrace and poverty were sufficient to crush the strength out of a man?
Look at that dandelion, now--it has filled two hours chock full of thought and colour for me when I might have been puling indoors and nagging at God Almighty about trifles.
All these things the judge shall teach thee of the land thou hast reviled; Get thee o'er the wide Atlantic, worthless London's puling child!
These foolish, puling sighs Are good for nothing, but to endanger buttons.
It is a blessing that such puling brats need no iron collar when sentenced to the garotte.
The power, splendid and potent as he now is, was once the pulingnursling of thy faithful care, and tender arms!
Gird yourself as a man to it, and no puling puny whining for pity!
In no life are the grit and efficiency of the well-bred in such marked contrast with the puling whine and shiftlessness of the settler from the cesspool of the city slums.
There has been no weak-kneed, puling greedy mob bellowing for pap from the breasts of a state treasury--demanding the rewards of industry and thrift which they have been too weak and shiftless and useless to earn.
Men were thought wise who could not understand His glories; with a puling infant's force They sway'd about upon a rocking-horse, And thought it Pegasus.
The others are puling things, easier to rear, because they bend better; and less esteemed, though they give less trouble, rouse less care.
But all the while his eye was served We dare not think his ear was sterved: But that there was in place to stir His fire the pittering Grasshopper; The merry Cricket, puling Fly, The piping Gnat for minstralcy.
I'm free from thee; and thou no more shalt hear My puling pipe to beat against thine ear.
The power, splendid and potent as he now is, was once the puling nursling of thy faithful care and tender arms!
It was a complaint frequently made by her against her friends Caroline and Olivia that they debased their voices, and taught themselves the puling British mode of speech.
But that will be better than puling and moping about without daring to tell my tale.
He contrasted her in thought with the wife he had put away, told Margaret that Laura was always puling about duty and getting her conscience pinched and whining about it.
Henry, I want the advantage of my strength in this world and I'm not going to go puling around, golden-ruling and bending my back to give the weak and worthless a ride.
He regarded Smithson kindly, whereat that rather puling gentleman once again assumed his martial bearing.
Even the puling creature writhed under the lash of Mary's tones.
She had once "run" a restaurant in a Western mining camp, had then or later carried him as a puling baby under her shawl or cloak across the Mojave Desert, on foot a part of the way.
Dick, in addition to his genuinely lively mental interests, was a most romantic person on one side, a most puling and complaining soul on the other.
Quickly, with the agility of the brute, she thrust toward him the little, puling thing that lay upon her lap.
Flowers, torn from their tender stalks, lay prostrate in puling puddles.
Hearken, you and your puling babe, to the Princess Ysolinde!
Instead of puling for mercy I will have had my revenge.
Therefore make your reckoning with that, and put aside puling shams and whimpering subterfuges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
