punies

Florio says "Cimici, a kinde of vermine in Italie that breedeth in beds and biteth sore, called punies or wall-lice."

Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Ces pratiques barbares devraient être interdites et punies!

Maghreb Netizens Respond to 8 year-old Yemeni Girl's Petition for Divorce 2008

All of this with the diabolical Dr. Hess on his trail and potentially a case of the space punies.

Row Three » Finite Focus: Of Vowels and Mammarys (The American Astronaut) - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

In such an instance, to make me “whole” the damage award should be grossed up so that I have $20K left after paying the taxes.... so the logical solution lies in the civil court judgments for P&S which are supposed to make one “whole” being grossed up rather than trying to eliminate the tax liability, and then punies and lost wages not being grossed up.

Tax Prof Commentary on Murphy 2006

Le bourgmestre _examina_ l'affaire, puis il déclara que l'employé ne méritait aucun reproche, et que les mouches, _auteurs_ de tout le mal, devaient seules être punies: il permit _donc_ au _paysan_ de les tuer sans _pitié_ partout où il les _rencontrerait_.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

A l'avenir les localités situees près de l'endroit ou a eu lieu la destruction des chemins de fer et lignes télégraphiques seront punies sans pitié (il n'importe qu'elles soient coupables ou non de ces actes.)

A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918

It is because they are raised in this fashion from their boyhood that there are many punies who, like the dwarf maple tree in the flower pot, mature gnarled and twisted.

Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891

En 1770, il y avait 160 offenses punies de la peine de mort, et le nombre s'en était beaucoup accru au commencement de ce siècle.

Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

Therefore they LOVE supreme court decisions which say that you can’t have punies that are more than the actual damages, or 1.5 time actuals or whatever.

Matthew Yglesias » The Madman Strategy 2009

Following the clergy, in capes exceeding rich, came many couples of little singing choristers, which, pretty innocent punies, were so egregiously deformed that moved great pity in any relenting spectator, being so clean shaved round about their heads that a man could perceive no more than the very rootes of their hair. "

The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893