Not one of the great Eastern cities of antiquity could collect eleven thousand Pagan virgins at one time, far less a puny Western city.
He seemed to have affronted a goddess of antiquity; he a poor puny mortal.
And all these prodigies of porphyry cut and polished like crystal, not rough hewn as in our puny structures.
So terrible was this inarticulate burst of fury, that Jorian's puny ire died out at sight of it, and he stood looking dismayed after the human tempest he had launched.
Was it hunger that drove it, or cold rage for these puny opponents?
Men will struggle and fight with their puny weapons, but these monsters will win, and they will have their way with us.
The Marmadukes were not at all a puny family; on the contrary, they were all rather above the ordinary size.
They may be such puny little Londoners that they may not be able to walk a dozen steps.
A diurnal is a puny chronicle, scarce pin-feathered with the wings of time.
Heaven send us a sharp campaign, I am weary of these puny quarrels.
Instead of disputing the power with the Achæans, I allow that power to weigh heavy on their puny shoulders.
I was fortunate enough not to have sprung from an enfeebled and puny and privileged race; and I have throughout my tempestuous career, preserved my natural vigor intact.
They are borne in patient silence, the cruelties inflicted by the puny arm of flesh, cannot extort a groan or a murmur from the holy sufferer.
The mind shudders at contemplating the awful fate of those who dare to lift their puny arms in rebellion against Zion's King, and the language of whose hearts till death is, "we will not have this man to reign over us.
The punyattempts of an undisciplined rabble, and their hot-headed leaders, will recoil upon the agitators who will not subvert the Empire, but be crushed themselves in ruin.
We are often led to observe how puny are the efforts of little man, with all his free-will, to alter or disturb the general laws of providence.
What, in comparison with your noble life, is that of the puny descendant of a line of decadent kings?
The teachings of old Simon will not tend to make a leader or a king out of the puny brat whom you chose to drag out of our keeping.
The carts were small, with puny horses, long-tailed and droop-necked, in harness of more rope than leather.
Heartily did Rob of the Angels insist on peace, but his words had the less force that he waspuny in person, and, although capable of great endurance, unnoted for deeds of strength.
My immense strength, my abounding physical glory drew her--who had known me a puny invalid--irresistibly.
For the world had always been cruel to me, because I was afraid of it, and was a puny thing in it.
Thou shalt in puny wood be shown, Thy image shall preserve thy fame; Ages to come thy worth shall own, Point at thy limbs, and tell thy name.
Timon Croesus is the puny caricature of a man, mentally, morally, and physically.
I try to resist the irresistible march of improvement, if I decline to build a great house, which, when it is built, is a puny copy of a bad model.
Children born of over-worked mothers, are liable to be a dwarfed and puny race.
If marriage is delayed too long in either sex, say from thirty to forty-five, the offspring will often be puny and more liable to insanity, idiocy, and other maladies.
Weakly and delicate fathers have weak and puny children, though the mother may be strong and robust.
There is no puny planet, sun or moon, Or zodiacal sign which can control The God in us!
Poor puny man Alone doth strive and battle with the Force Which rules all lives and worlds, and he alone Demands effect before producing cause.
Man makes a mountain of that puny word, But, like a blade of grass before the scythe, It falls and withers when a human will, Stirred by creative force, sweeps toward its aim.
Frightful jaws in front and mighty, poisoned sting behind made my relatively puny long-sword seem a pitiful weapon of defense indeed.
In despair I tried to force the thing, but the cold, unyielding stone might well have laughed at my futile, puny endeavors.
They seemed puny and futile implements of safety against an even ordinary swordsman, but I was later to see the purpose of them and with what wondrous dexterity the yellow men manipulate them.
The puny pinnace yonder you, my friends, discern, Of every ship professes agilest to be.
My own translation, The puny pinnace yonder you, my friends, discern, whatever its defects, is at least a pretty exact representation of a pure iambic line.
Puny insects, left too long unhurt, may turn out dangerous enemies irretrievably damaging the fertile vine on which they fastened in the security of their minuteness.
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love in eighty years as much as I could in a day.
He saw, in one moment, the vast chasm between the man and the princess; in the next, he laughed at the puny space.
This puny ray grew perceptibly when Anguish brought him to feel that she needed his protection from the man who had once sought to despoil and who might reasonably be expected to persevere.
As well might the wild goat strike with puny hoofs when the tiger springs.
Their home has been ravished of the protection they had raised with half a lifetime of labour, and in their puny way they want vengeance.
And that Being Who made us, laughs to scorn the lying faith, Whose puny precepts, like a wall of sand, Would stem the full tide of predestined Nature!
These dull abortive sounds that fret the silence 10 With puny thwartings and mock opposition!
Leave now thepuny wish, the girlish feeling, O thrust it far behind thee!
These dull abortive sounds that fret the silence With puny thwartings and mock opposition!
At the further end A puny cataract falls on the lake; And there, a curious sight!
The poor, pale, puny infant had weighed but little the first time he took the breast.
Beauchene asked her as he looked at the pale, puny child on her arm.
When the stricken man passed before her, her puny little frame stiffened and grew.
And it was then necessary for Cecile to intervene and turn him out of the place; for, however puny she might be, she had a brave heart.
