In adolescence, ponine becomes a pale, puny, meagre creature, with a hoarse voice like a drunken galley slave's, having been roughened by brandy and by liquors.
en.wikipedia.org For these gains seem to me puny, and scientific psychology seems to me ill-founded.
en.wikipedia.org A puny, dehydrated, wailing baby boy was brought by a rickshaw puller, who had found it, abandoned in a cinema hall, after a night show.
en.wikipedia.org It was immoral for the older generations to consort with the younger generations, whereby puny women begot unusually large children.
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