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Meanings of puny strength in English

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Usage of puny strength in English
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How his puny strength enabled him to do this, he never could say.
Adventures in Many Lands
2
Her puny strength matched against his was conquered in a moment of futile resistance.
The Emigrant Trail
3
You exert all your puny strength to struggle to live.
The Sea-Wolf
4
You are not to be compared with the widow's son, despite his puny strength.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution / A Course of Lectures in History, G...
5
Do you suppose your puny strength can hold us apart?
The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
6
This is the one bright spot in its world, towards which its puny strength goes forth.
Letters of Two Brides
7
But my puny strength could not hold him.
Brigands of the Moon
8
Yet still with her puny strength she held him, for she dared not let him go.
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
9
And what is my puny strength to hers?
Margaret Tudor: A Romance of Old St. Augustine
10
Despair wighed on Iydahoe, pinning him to the ground, a physical weight that overwhelmed his puny strength.
The Kagonesti (A Story of the Wild Elves)
11
But Rosa did not respond; her puny strength had flown and she lay inert in his embrace, scarcely breathing.
Rainbow's End
12
Together they had exerted their puny strength in the face of violent nature, and together they had outwitted her.
The Cruise of the Dazzler
13
In a frenzy of fear she threw herself upon him, struggling with all her puny strength to hold him back.
Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
14
Pathetic and tear-compelling was the courage of these three men pitting their puny strength against the pitiless violence of the elements.
Where the Sun Swings North
15
You cannot hope to pit your puny strength and simple weapons against the numbers and the guns of the Arabs and the Manyuema.
The Return of Tarzan
16
Each time you throw your puny strength against me, and each time, in the end, you know which of us is the master.
To the blight: the eye of the world
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