"You shall only drink two cups more," said the punier villain.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
The religious reaction was a punier thing; the great Abbe, who was the Newman of France, was himself unable to remain within the fantastic church that he built out of medieval ruins.
"Oxford"
Lang, Andrew
If the German intellectual colossus, whose conversation bestrode the narrow world from comparative anatomy and scientific optics to the principles of art, could not talk of Shakespeare; if a poet whose writings, next to those of our own unrivalled bard, are most thickly studded with great stars of thought, could not talk of Shakespeare, what is to be said by us punier men who are compelled to peep about for matter of discourse?
"Platform Monologues"
T. G. Tucker