pule

Once everyone is present, Tūtū opens us with a pule, prayer.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

We pule again, and then we line up to scoop food onto our plates.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

In the translation of this pule the author has found it necessary to depart from the verse arrangement that obtains in the Hawaiian text.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

He can neither speake nor goe, nor eat, otherwise than he is trained to it: and, to be short, apt and good at nothing he is naturally, but to pule and crie.

From Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

Let pessimists potter and pule, and let savages slaughter and harry; Give me Hendry, and Tammas, and Jess, and a smile, and a tear born of Barrie.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

McGinnis clung to the hearing room door as police puled him away.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026

The user contradicted Optus's claims the breach was "sophisticated", saying they puled the data from a freely accessible software interface.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2022

A raft rocked angrily as burly men puled on wires to tame it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2015

These my toys, my gauds, That in the cradle—aye, 't my mother's breast— I puled and lisped at,—'Tis impossible, Tho', faith, 'tis not so, forasmuch as 'tis.

From Seven Men by Sir Max Beerbohm

June 17. come down to Guantanamo Bay this morning, put some 300 tons of coal on and throde some shells over in an old Fort and then puled out right away for Santiago.

From The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898 by R. Cross

“Some sectors are puling back on hiring intentions because their broader economic outlook is starting to become less rosy or they have industry-specific concerns,” said Nick Bunker, head of research at Indeed’s Hiring Lab.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022

“I think he got caught and now he’s puling an excuse out from under the bed,” Adams said.

From Washington Times ● May 23, 2020

BST16:14 69 min Coleman drills a long one from right-back towards Walters, puling left.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015

After the doors swung open, the crowd grew to more than 200 to collect their free issues with staffers puling titles from boxes on a wheeled, metal cargo crate by the counter.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2011

Nobody could doubt he spoke the truth; he was already old and wise when the most elderly among them was a blind hairless mite, puling and whimpering for a feed from its mother.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques