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Usage examples of puniest.

Yet at that moment such nervous power did I gather from my rage, that I swung him from his feet as though he had been the puniest weakling.

I could only mourn, and I had no right to mourn, having never loved him--or if I did, even in the puniest of ways, it was never his person I loved, but what I had from him, the things awakened in me by what had happened.

I could only mourn, and I had no right to mourn, having never loved himor if I did, even in the puniest of ways, it was never his person I loved, but what I had from him, the things awakened in me by what had happened.

I did, even in the puniest of ways, it was never his person I loved, but what I had from him, the things awakened in me by what had happened.

Moreover, he did not choose to analyze the mystical reasons as to why he had been permitted by Fate or Chance to obtain such mastery over one human soul,--he preferred to attribute it all to his own discoveries in science,--his own patient and untiring skill,--his own studious comprehension of the forces of Nature,--and he was nearly, if not quite oblivious of the fact, that there is a Something behind natural forces, which knows and sees, controls and commands, and against which, if he places himself in opposition, Man is but the puniest, most wretched straw that was ever tossed or split by a whirlwind.

The puniest man in camp could cow him with a look, yet none was prompter than he to face the grave perils of breaking a log-jam, and there was no cooler hand than his in the risky labors of stream-driving.

Directly in front of them was the bridge, although it was the puniest such one Lou had ever seen.

Women, or those who sell to them, created panties, scanties and nighties, while male merchandising is designed to make even the puniest man feel outdoorsy.

I, a mere man, the puniest of creatures, had slain the moving mountain of slime with the fury of a captive sun.