Innumerable are the instances of princes having sought to perpetuate their memories by the building of palaces, from the Domus Aurea, or golden house of Nero, to the comparatively puny structures of our own times.

"Mighty puny this mornin'Becky is.

If the litter is a large one, the last born may be noticeably puny, and this disparity in size may continue to maturity.