...; the morning having been wasted in puerile talk with the owner of the canoes at the ferry... 
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Their notions of geography are equally puerile...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...They are capable of infinite variation, upon which it would be puerile for me to insist...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...I find everywhere only vain and puerile entites; nowhere do I discover an idea...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Buthow did it get there, so far from the point of entry? A very triflingquestion, it is true; puerile even, if you will...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Full of errors, idleprejudices, and discussions foreign to the subject, a largeportion of their pages is taken up in vapid conceits, personalaccusations, and puerile reasoning, destitute of method...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)」
..."I can probably predictyour puerile argument, but go aheadand present it...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
...Such are the puerile solutions which philosophy, always guided by the leading-strings of theology, was obliged to bring forth to explain the problems of the physical and moral world...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
...It has created a fear oftruth, and our minds are still brutish and puerile in our methods ofreasoning...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
...Wherein then lay the magnitude of the man?—not in his theories, whichwere puerile, but in his observations, which were magnificent...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
... We can say that the prophecies of the Old Testament adjusted to the New, would be very absurd and puerile things...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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