We are accustomed nowadays to a great deal of puling over the circumstances in which we are placed.
The Pocket R.L.S.|Robert Louis Stevenson
Are all her laws suspended, that she might transform, in an instant, a puling trifler into a perfect woman?
Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.|W. H. Rhodes
We came in puling and naked, and every stitch must come off before we get out again.
The Return|Walter de la Mare
The puling voice is crushed by the chorus, which protests that the heavens are above Count Orso.
Vittoria, Complete|George Meredith
Away with this whimpering, this puling, these blubbering tears, and these wet eyes!
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.|Thomas Dekker