This was the place they had discovered first - except for some puny creatures who had been long gone before they arrived.
What fools the Tanu were, sending this puny creature against him!
Nature is too vast and wonderful for puny creatures like us to say flatly that it can't do certain things.
No one had described Irisis as small before, but to a lyrinx the largest humans were puny creatures.
It was coiled in a huge knot at the corner of the sty, ready to spring on whatever puny creature dared to attack.
I'm sure I don't want his puny little creatures visiting me.
We will return for those puny creatures later!
"If these puny little creatures could harm him, would he be following us down into the gorge?"
The young King, as he grew up, proved to be very unlike his great father, and showed himself a miserable puny creature.
Wait for me there while I watch for a little longer the consternation of those puny creatures down in the valley.