...pueril, puerile, childish...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...; the morning having been wasted in puerile talk with the owner of the canoes at the ferry...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...I find everywhere only vain and puerile entites; nowhere do I discover an idea...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...As soon as I had done it, it struck me as a puerile and portentous thing to do, with that great blind house looking down at me, and all the empty avenues converging on me...
Edith Wharton 「Kerfol」
...Buthow did it get there, so far from the point of entry? A very triflingquestion, it is true; puerile even, if you will...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...I have just been practising on insects tricks which to allappearances are as puerile as those which we practised on the Turkeysin the days when the farmer's wife used to run after us cracking herwhip...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...That hope justifies my cruel studies, which, though apparently so puerile, are in reality worthy of serious consideration...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...But this puerile parody met with the indifference it deserved, and,accompanied by the Section Manager, we commenced our journey, travellingfor some hours over the land which is in his charge...
Various 「Argentina From A British Point Of View」
...Such are the puerile solutions which philosophy, always guided by the leading-strings of theology, was obliged to bring forth to explain the problems of the physical and moral world...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
... We can say that the prophecies of the Old Testament adjusted to the New, would be very absurd and puerile things...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
...The puerile conception of heaven and the savage conception of hell arestill, in modified form, deemed necessary for a religious morality...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
...His genius was cramped with puerile pursuits, mechanical devotions, sacred trifles...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) Samuel Wilkinson 「The System of Nature, Volume 2」
...Wherein then lay the magnitude of the man?—not in his theories, whichwere puerile, but in his observations, which were magnificent...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
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