" <Young, youthful, boyish, girlish, juvenile, puerile, immature, callow, adolescent.

I distinguished the very words in the successive tones, which the school-boys and puerile imaginations at Chiswick used to combine with them.

And these vices are mixed with a puerile superstition which disgraces their understanding.

It was always a contradiction,lofty while degraded, seeking to comprehend the profoundest mysteries, yet debased by puerile superstitions.

The literature of the Church was puerile and extravagant, yet Christian,consisting chiefly of legends of martyrs and Lives of saints.

The subject was carefully dropped, but as the pallium was Saint Peter's gift, it was brought to Canterbury and placed upon the altar, and the Archbishop condescended, amid much pomp and ceremony, to take it thence and put it on,a sort of puerile concession for the sake of peace.

Talk about burning pitch and brimstone: how futile were the imaginations of the old fellows who conjured up such puerile torments.

This puerile antithesis of fire and water, fire and ice, light in darkness, silence in speech, together with such pretty turns as wounding one's-self in wounding others, and the worse sacrifice of consistency and truth of feeling,lovers making long speeches on the least fitting occasions, and ladies retaining their rosy cheeks in the midst of fears of death,is to be met with, more or less, throughout the poem.

The puerile conviction prevailed that legislation could completely blot out the past and radically transform the character of a society.

Historically it was puerile.

In serving the puerile ambition of one manits chief, for there will be a chief, will there not, Monsieur Courbet?and the puerile rancours of a parcel of daubers, without name and without talent.

In serving the puerile ambition of one manits chief, for there will be a chief, will there not, Monsieur Courbet?and the puerile rancours of a parcel of daubers, without name and without talent.

Twould be well if our legislators, instead of their puerile and frothy declamations against revolutionary principles and the ambition of Napoleon, would occupy themselves seriously with this subject.

The Column, erected to commemorate this glorious victory, has been thrown down by order of the Austrian governmenta poor piece of puerile spite, but worthy of legitimacy.

I do not say that he was a Filibustero, but he was universally supposed to be identified with that party; and if he were not so identified, he showed a puerile ignorance of the requirements of a Minister, quite beyond conception, when he received a serenade of five thousand people at New York, who came in procession, bearing aloft the accompanying transparencies, he being at the time accredited to his new ministry.

" This puerile avowal decided the measures of the confederates; and ere long they succeeded in convincing the King that it would be quite possible to accomplish the overthrow of Concini without exposing himself to the anger which he dreaded.

Even as they sailed up the river looking for a place to found their colony, they robbed the stream of its Indian name, Powhatan, that so befitted the bold, tawny flow, bestowing instead the name of the puerile King of England.

It was not to be expected that he would descend to the level of such puerile feasting.

On the strength of this omission one or two of St. Clair's apologists have striven to represent the whole account of Washington's wrath as apocryphal; but the attempt is puerile; the relation comes from an eyewitness who had no possible motive to distort the facts.

Henry II., what with his ripeness of age, his ability, energy, and perseverance, without any mean jealousy or puerile obstinacy, had over Philip every advantage of position and experience, and he availed himself thereof with discretion, habitually maintaining his feudal status of great French vassal as well as that of foreign sovereign, seeking peace rather than strife with his youthful suzerain, and some-times even going to his aid.

The great historic fact of the St. Bartholomew is what we confine ourselves to; and we have attempted to depict it accurately as regards Charles IX.'s hesitations and equally feverish resolutions, his intermixture of open-heartedness and double-dealing in his treatment of Coliguy, towards whom he felt himself drawn without quite understanding him, and his puerile weakness in presence of his mother, whom he feared far more than he trusted.

But a mind tortured to madness by the sufferings of her country, was not likely to be shaken by such puerile malice; and, when interrogated under this disguise, she still preserved the same firmness, mingled with contempt, which she had displayed when first apprehended.

Hardly able to believe my eyes, I read that you should write, with as little imagination as possible, that plot in a novel or in a play was illiterate and puerile, and that the art of M. Scribe was an art of strings and wires, etc.

The mass can only appreciate simple and naïve emotions, puerile prettiness, above all conventionalities.

Hugo's vanity was Titanic, Goncourt's is puerile.