ЦИТАТЫ СО СЛОВОМ «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.
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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.
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All My Puny Sorrows review – a raw tale of a pianist's death wish
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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, Фев 15»
A Real-Life Nine-Inch Nail Gun Puts Puny Nerf to Shame
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This planet's rings make Saturn look puny
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Mastering Apple's Gigantic iPhone 6 Plus With Puny Hands
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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, Дек 14»