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The door grumbled ajar to reveal a doleful, puny young guy in green stripy pyjamas standing beneath a thick mass of curly black hair
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Frenchy had his puny little arm around
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flex those puny muscles of his
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As the ball of light neared, Ostedes saw a shape at its center – a puny, weak, humanoid form
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The only weapons I had were my bare hands and a puny dagger
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Sunset was first heralded by the Cuban bugler, but his puny notes were soon drowned by the harmonious burst of trumpets, as the beautiful “retreat” of the American army was sounded by the various regiments encamped at Sevilla, about a mile behind
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Several houses were demolished; but with such precedents as Sebastopol, Strasburg, and Paris, it was easy to realise that Shafter's threat to knock Santiago to pieces with his puny field-guns was futile; even aided by a powerful navy, it might take a prolonged action to force surrender
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It is estimated that over three thousand people lost their lives through the humanity that allowed non-combatants to escape the puny bombardment which destroyed but a dozen houses
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In other words, I am offering you a much more civilized way out, because I haven’t got the time to grind your puny rebellious followers into oblivion
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Argyl, small weak man, turned to him, turned to him and thrust my puny blade at him
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Might even this mighty tower come tumbling down due to an extraterrestrial catastrophe, with the puny insensate remains of Man strewn widely afield as the price of his arrogance? It has, according to science, happened to the dinosaurs, masters of a different kind of arrogance in a bygone age
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much effect from puny men
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much for the soul of a puny being to bear, I suddenly
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realized that this puny cup of salvation we hang onto
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We are too puny to have much effect on it even if it was a problem
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The wildly curling crest sailed over the abutment unopposed by anything that this puny obstruction offered only to come crashing to ground as its base of support disappeared
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Thus marked the puny remnants of man, his machinery, and other detritus left stranded by an
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over the abutment unopposed by anything that this puny obstruction offered only to come
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replacement that would bolster the ratings and hopefully keep at least the puny
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pleasure of my puny bod and you should have more faith in me
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much different than the puny protestors who were against
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The puny figure just continued to weep into its hands
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In his last minutes he had called upon every shade of darkness to try and preserve his puny life but it was to no avail
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It comes from the earth, the stone, the crystals, even from the very air you suck into your puny lungs
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Whoever would buy such an inferior tin box with that puny engine in the trunk? We were made from sterner stuff, ready to look directly into the gun barrels of T-34s - or Shermans, if we were lucky
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I slowly drew one of those self-propelled bazookas from under the twigs, pulled the safety wire, lifted the primitive sight, stood up about chest high, aimed and pushed the puny little red button on the side
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Long lines of enemy trucks and tanks standing still, soldiers walking, smoking, gesticulating, looking down on us as we approached the underpass with all the speed that puny 125cc engine would give us
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nology looks puny in the face of the vast multiverse – with universes in all
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He had to admit that they looked a bit puny, but it was worth a try
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Once I was a runt, tiniest of the litter, weak, puny
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“For starters, give me that cape, you puny freak!” he said as he tugged at my reward
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I had to temper her inclination to rend the puny mortals to
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Naturally I didn't mind, and was heartened to discover I was reasonably close to the magazine’s ideal, although puny when compared to Renaissance nudes, showing that great Art is inspired by nature, not a copy of it
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Fortunately, the thick skins that unattractive kids develop to cope with bullying, preserved them from understanding that their two new friends were forcing a comparison between their sexy fitness and their classmates’ puny bodies
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Those 25 puny nukes at the major domes did little damage, the blasts were mostly contained
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While someone raced to the sickbay, Robert fought with himself, surrendered, rolled the enemy onto his back, pressed his thin shanks as hard as he could into his belly, then released them suddenly, repeating this several times until, with a shuddering of breath, a fit of coughing and gasps and heaves of his puny chest, Lance’s colour gradually returned
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How dare these puny humans harm a member of my family
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I calmed myself, ruthlessly crushing down the rage, the solid conviction that it was my right to destroy these puny vermin if I so chose
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Females, especially puny ones, they thought, had no business trying to take charge of anything
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How would he have reacted to France being wiped out? Or Hitler, dropping puny bombs on Rotterdam early in the World War: how would he have reacted to an atomic bomb on Berlin?"
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wanted to without the necessity of explaining himself to puny Science Masters
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How anyone can think that the puny missiles from a P I ship or destroyer can possibly hurt it is beyond me
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“Didn’t you use the same missiles? You called them puny as I recall
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Twelve puny P I ships attacked a force that included two of the super battleships that had been at Everest, eight cruisers, a few dozen destroyers and more small ships than the sensors could sort out
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She deployed all her ships including the med-evac ships with their puny defensive lasers
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Fishmael hurled obscenities from his puny vessel, but he was powerless to stop the fish from having its way – he was left as purple and pointless as a plum
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But just as it was about to fall, it jumped off two trees, set into a glide in the air that struck awe and fear in the puny hearts of the aliens below
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without this puny land; I have responsibilities enough
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this world will always be mine, and it is time you puny humans remembered that
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A pathetic land troll, and a rather puny descendent of the once-mighty mastodon
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For the trolls, it was a sign of their obvious superiority to the puny creatures of the land
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He stared at the wizard, astounded that such a puny excuse for an individual should
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The government of Macedonia has recently changed the name of its puny airport to "Alexander the Great"
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You guys remember the plan-o-graph? How big is David on the plan-o-graph, and how big is Goliath? Goliath was like 9 foot 6, but the idea that David was some kind of small, puny guy – not true
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Very much similar to this puny, isolated cloud ap-
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“Rest assured that these puny Zhuge Multiple
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Father will not care about her puny little mortal life
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The creature turned and instead of a face Ceri saw only an endless abyss, and in that darkness saw a reflection of herself, as others saw her, puny, ineffectual with powers that were of no use to anyone, erratic, awkward, useless
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'Anyhow held forth on the unworthily puny outer conditions of my existence
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Blindly the fly lord confronted ranks of zombies, numbed by the circulation of his puny minions
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His breathing labored and shallow, Sound coughed again, a puny puff of air that was almost silent
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The hole in the swamp where he was born a puny human being
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“For instance here, in Northern England a castle is drawn in such a way that if it were to scale it would have taken up three counties where as this one here,” He pointed to a puny speck in the lower Irish Isle “ Drawn with the same scale in mind could have fit in the first one's master bed chamber
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Perhaps this was his jeer to his own puny
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“You! A puny boy
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He is a puny, dirty wretch
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was the son of God, and the puny human laws he did not have to
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At what cost was the benefit of dynamite to the Earth? And to mankind? What has Science cost the Earth? What has Science cost all living creatures on the Earth? Then look at the meager, puny benefit compared to the huge cost
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There’s always plenty of people who have more time than you and they’re not interested in your puny little suffering
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� If the other hears that voice and believes that we saw each other as fellow beings, it might hold some meaning for that person, answer some small need of theirs puny as the two dollars really is
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It made her own beloved forest look puny and incomparable to the unmatched majesty of the forest that pressed in all around her now
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“She didn’t protect your puny Valharans! She protected that insignificant King of theirs
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There is a feeling of being lifted out of one's puny self to something bigger and more stable
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No spells, no blades - just to feel the neck bone of this puny creature crack in his hands
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With her other hand she was pulling along a poor puny little fellow, his face covered with scrofula, the son of a Rouen hosier, whom his parents, too taken up with their business, left in the country
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day
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ABOUT twelve o'clock that night, was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights: a puny, seven months' child; and two hours after the mother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss Heathcliff, or know Edgar
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For a few days I said he seemed regardless of the puny successor to the departed: the coldness melted as fast as snow in April, and ere the tiny thing could stammer a word or totter a step it wielded a despot's sceptre in his heart
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Yes; and what else would you expect, I said, when you think of the puny creatures who, seeing this land open to them--a land well stocked with fair names and showy titles--like prisoners running out of prison into a sanctuary, take a leap out of their trades into philosophy; those who do so being probably the cleverest hands at their own miserable crafts? For, although philosophy be in this evil case, still there remains a dignity about her which is not to be found in the arts
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Miss puny little Edy's countenance fell to no slight extent and Gerty could see by her looking as black as thunder that she was simply in a towering rage though she hid it, the little kinnatt, because that shaft had struck home for her petty jealousy and they both knew that she was something aloof, apart, in another sphere, that she was not of them and never would be and there was somebody else too that knew it and saw it so they could put that in their pipe and smoke it
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It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently 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 a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred
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puny child of clay? Perish the thought! I shudder to think of the future of a race where the seeds of such malice have been sown and where no right reverence is rendered to mother and maid in house of Horne
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There was evidence to show, however, that he was honestly devoted to the interests of Monsieur Caratal, and that the latter, being a man of puny physique, employed the other as a guard and protector
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Oh, suppose she should lose everything! Suppose she should have to start all over again with only her puny weapons against this mad world! To have to pit her red lips and green eyes and her shrewd shallow brain against the Yankees and everything the Yankees stood for
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They were playing some beat music, but the amplification was so puny it was hard to hear with your head half underwater
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Some such collapse had been probable, so tender and puny was its frame; but the event came as a shock nevertheless
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That time seemed like an arrow only because people’s brains were too puny to handle the everything that would otherwise be present
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It took her a beat to remember what he was talking about, and when she did fetch the test tubes from her bag, he seemed disappointed at how puny the polverone looked, clumped there at the bottom
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With her other hand she was pulling along a poor puny little fellow, his
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That distance may appear puny, but a computer rescales it to fill the screen (Figure 23
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My Epick lost at a Coaching Inn! My Juvenilia lost I knew not where! My Romance lost at Sea! How would I e’er become the Bard I wisht to be if I kept losing my Life’s Work so carelessly? Yet perhaps ev’ry Author must serve an Apprenticeship, and perhaps indeed ’tis better that no other Eyes than hers behold the puny Fruits of that Apprenticeship, and no other Lips savour their insufficient Juice
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Their performance will look puny when compared to their growth-oriented peers
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At first glance the boy looks small, as puny as a preteen, but that’s only because his arms and legs have wasted away to skin and bone
