| 1. | This puerile feature in a nature which was conspicuously manly had often given rise to comment and conjecture. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked--a tear of disappointment and impatience ashamed of it, I wiped it away. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, which is puerile and honest. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | A useful and graciously austere half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |