Sentence examples for puny child from inspiring English sources

Descartes had been a puny child with a weak chest and was not expected to live.

If parents ignored the laws of 'Nature', they would continue 'bringing into the world feeble and puny children, born but to suffer and die'.

Recall that the mythical feats you loved to read about as a child are puny beside the accomplishments of human beings on earth.

Her calves were not puny or Pillsbury Doughboy mushy like the other children's — they were muscular and strong.

At 12 years of age, Hakob is skinny and puny, but he begins working when most children and even their parents are long asleep.

He blames his wife's death four years after Martin's premature birth on the strain of bringing up a child Paul cruelly describes as a puny stuttering weakling who barely survived.

But most of the entries fall somewhere in between — contented but bittersweet, like the touching account by the performance artist Teller (of Penn & Teller) of his bond with his aging parents; or the observations of the biographer Judith Thurman, who compares the child in a three-person household to "a puny sun around which two mighty satellites revolve".

Got any more advice?" With the stock market so volatile and interest rates on savings accounts so puny, how do you invest the small amount of money that your child has earned?

Blessed with children whose internal clocks obey no commands, even that one puny benefit is denied me.

Looking back on the college days of one-eyed pea Mike Billy Crystall) and hulking bully-turned-pal Sully (John Goodman) as they learn the art of professional child-scaring, it's essentially a string of family-friendly frathouse gags, with puny Mike's mastery of his inner ogre providing the bare minimum of pathos.

He had a child in tow, a boy of eight or nine, with the same sandy coloring and quizzically interrogating look — only the child seemed puny and lethargic, while Julian exuded a kind of restless satisfaction.