4.Now, plantation after plantation was going back to the forest, and dismal fields of broomsedge, scrub oak and runty pines had grown stealthily about silent ruins and over old cotton fields.
5.Mr. Arable smiled. " Certainly not, " he said, looking down at his daughter with love. " But this is different. A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another."
6.Garrett had lit the braziers, and their glowing coals filled Jaime's tent with a ruddy heat. Ser Daven shrugged out of his cloak and tossed it at Little Lew. " You a Piper, boy" ? he growled. " You have a runty look to you" .