6 QUOTES WITH «PUNY»
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puny.
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Sometimes I think that our laboratories are but little earthworks which men build about themselves, and whose puny tops too often conceal from view the Olympian heights; that we who work in these laboratories are but skilled artisans compared with the man who is able to observe and to draw accurate deductions from the world about him.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNY»
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puny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
puny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Delicate, Backward,
Puny and Stunted Children
Delicate, Backward, Puny & Stunted Children - Their Development Defects & Physical Mental & Moral Peculiarities Considered As Ailments Amenable to Treatment by Medicenes.
James Compton Burnett, 2001
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Delicate, Backward,
Puny and Stunted Children: Their ...
Again, some children do not see, hear or speak properly; or they are unclean in their habits, wet their clothes or their beds, and cannot be taught nice, sweet ways like their fellows....Many of the earliest books, particu
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Pipsqueak's
Puny Peepholes
Definition;. Flare. Star. A variable star whose brightness as seen from Earth, (its
apparent magnitude), fluctuates. That means it gets brighter sometimes and dim
other times, just like people do. A flare star is a variable star that can undergo a ...
The Aggies kept Bo McMillin bottled up, and meanwhile an Aggie named Puny
Wilson ran wild, largely on deceitful end-around plays. "Why do they call him
Puny?" Betsy asked. "Because he ain't," Ben said. "Puny's a pretty good-size boy.
puny: How you come on, Mr. McCranie? Can I warm my hands a minute?
Freezing cold sitting on that wagon seat. [He moves up to the stove and stretches
his hands above it.] abe: Help yourself. Be a snow before night, I believe. puny:
Yeh, ...
Paul Green, Laurence G. Avery, 1998
Miriam Toews. all my puny sorrows MIRIAM TOEWS For Erik.
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Don't Give Me That Pricely, Princely,
Puny Purple Pony, Neither
Poor Prince Hubert will not leave his bed since his pet goldfish died. The stubborn little Prince is not satisfied with any of the replacements offered him.
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The Social Mode of Restoration Comedy
character of Puny especially attracted Lamb's attention and appeared to him "the
prototype of the half-witted Wits, the Brisks and Dapper Wits" 62 of Congreve.
This admirable, although apparently forgotten, criticism is also applicable to The
...
Kathleen Martha Lynch, 1965
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Delicate, Backward,
Puny and Stunted Children
This book shows that medicines can restore enlarge and dislocated wombs to their proper size and position the aurthor has included the subject of sterility as enlargments and displacement are very commonly its cause.
Do you think that comic books are all about heroes being heroic and villains being, um, not heroic? Bah! Comic books are also about heroes sleeping with their costumes on...under their pajamas.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUNY»
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puny is used in the context of the following news items.
Google Driverless Car Crashes Are Your Damn Fault, Puny Humans …
That's because “Google's driving” is always the computer, helming one of its self-driving robo-cars. And they're probably right, as Chris Urmson, the head of ... «Jalopnik, Jul 15»
Your puny roof and walls won't stop this snake from stealing an egg …
Imagine walking into the kitchen of your home and seeing a somewhat large snake descending from your spice cabinet into the carefully arranged basket of ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
Miriam Toews: 'I worried people would think, what is wrong with this …
But while All My Puny Sorrows, which is very funny, may not be a natural ... There was another motivating factor in writing All My Puny Sorrows: “I had so much ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Puny humans flub ANOTHER Google cloud patch
No-one says running a globe-spanning cloud is easy, but Google's just borked its own cloud for the fourth and fifth time in a few weeks. This time the problem ... «The Register, Apr 15»
All My Puny Sorrows review – a raw tale of a pianist's death wish
Miriam Toews, whose All My Puny Sorrows 'sheds light on the darkest of places'. ... All My Puny Sorrows is based on the author's own experience of her sister's ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Puny postman fined after dumping his mail bag because it was 'too …
A weedy postman who dumped hundreds of letters because he claimed they were too heavy has been fined more than £2,300. Sandeep Singh, 27, refused to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
A Real-Life Nine-Inch Nail Gun Puts Puny Nerf to Shame
Played Quake recently? Or listened to any Trent Reznor? This man's insane, semi-automatic nine-inch nail gun will make you want to do both. That and also eat ... «Gizmodo, Jan 15»
This planet's rings make Saturn look puny
When J1407 was discovered in 2012, it seemed like a fairly run-of-the-mill star. But the researchers who spotted it saw signs of a strange eclipse -- a period ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
Mastering Apple's Gigantic iPhone 6 Plus With Puny Hands
When I held an iPhone 6 Plus for the first time, I laughed. It looked comically huge in my little grip. Now I can't imagine life without that big screen. If you've ... «ReadWrite, Dec 14»
A life-affirming romp through death in 'All My Puny Sorrows'
"All My Puny Sorrows" is a novel about suicide, a 320-page contemplation of the point of human existence that asks why we bother slogging through our ... «Los Angeles Times, Dec 14»
