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Meanings of puny efforts in English

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Usage of puny efforts in English
1
The cunning of the ages defeats your puny efforts at every turn.
The Black Box
2
The forest seemed impenetrable, beyond all his puny efforts to make a footing.
In Search of the Okapi / A Story of Adventure in Central Africa
3
They reveal my puny efforts to be none other than myself.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
4
Better so, they said, than that he should fret himself with puny efforts to escape.
Last and First Men
5
He only laughed at her puny efforts to hurt him, laughed and goaded her afresh.
The Keeper of the Door
6
He is tired of your vain puny efforts.
Ten Boys from History
7
But he merely laughed at her puny efforts.
Bought and Paid For; From the Play of George Broadhurst
8
The good seed has taken root, and my puny efforts will yet bear fruit in due season.
The Statesmen Snowbound
9
They did, but with no more success than had attended their puny efforts against the smaller exit.
The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership
10
And her soul was sick within her at his peril which her puny efforts could not avert.
Further Adventures of Lad
11
Now, as silver-grey streaked the sky, the motion was easier; dawn had come to mock their puny efforts.
Colors Aloft!
12
More and more ineffective became her puny efforts, and at last she ceased almost entirely the futile struggle.
The Mucker
13
What is to be-isto be; and your puny efforts will not alter a single letter in the book.
Mufti
14
It was almost pathetic, these puny efforts, because faith always sprang afresh in the success of each new venture.
The Relation of Literature to Life
15
Sometimes she laughed softly at his weakness, as a mother might laugh at the first puny efforts of her baby to stand alone.
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
16
"How invariably Nature asserts herself in the end, and defies the puny efforts of man to alter her ways," said Mr. Jones to himself, musingly.
Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines
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