Benton tried to throw the blame mainly on the bankers and politicians, who, he alleged, had formed an alliance for the overthrow of the administration; but he made the plea more half-heartedly than usual, and probably in his secret soul acknowledged its puerility.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
But while he was pondering I thought proper to make my exit; and leave him to settle the contest between his pride and his puerility as well as he was able.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
It found the greater portion of the noblesse luxuriating in pleasure, and thinking only of selfish, if not of criminal indulgence, in pursuits equally marked by puerility and vice.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner