How To Use Luff In A Sentence
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Having met a good deal of the sea, they knew, like a man who has felt a good deal of the world, that heavy endurance and patient bluffness are safer to get through the waves somehow than sensitive fibre and elegant frame.
Springhaven
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All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles.
The Wind Bloweth
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I picked a piece of fluff off my shiny black suit.
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‘Ah Dublin, you're giving it away,’ he wailed in the 55th minute, as the Dublin defence fluffed its lines yet again, giving Laois another unearned scoring opportunity.
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Just like playing poker, it's all about bluffing.
The Sun

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‘We have to win,’ the Scotland coach affirms with a bluffness which only Australians can pull off.
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WHAT are the white fluffy bits on my moth orchid?
The Sun
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Vanishing, with a quick flirt of gingham apron-strings, she reappeared in considerably less than a "trice" as a fluffy
Strictly business: more stories of the four million
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It appears one of the (ahem) podium girls (aka fluffers) is measuring Alberto's johnson (or juan-hijo) and reporting the result as "five".
The Schlock of the New: Dirty Salutes, Bold Claims, and Loud Prints
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Then came a game of bluff with his club spread over two weeks.
The Sun
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He fluffed up pillows and put them against the bedstead.
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Wool is fluffy and airy so it serves as an insulator to prevent the heat of the body from escaping.
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DK, teh oringinal nowncement wuz awn teh cheeztown cryer bak in Aprilz, Ambercat, SJMartoonie, Tidmum an Teh Angsty Wun r partisipatin inna 5km “run/walk/stagger” teehee, ai luffed taht in ayd uv cansur reeserch.
And STAY down! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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He hoped to strike the camp simultaneously from the north and south, but had not counted on the maze of bluffs and ravines he would have to contend with to get there.
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She clutched a fluffy toy dog as both were arrested.
The Sun
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To me he is false, a bluffer, a hypocrite, a sectarian, a coward and an opportunist.
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To finish the portrait, the bearing of the gracious Duncan was brief, bluff, and consequential, and the upward turn of his short copper-coloured nose indicated that he was somewhat addicted to wrath and usquebaugh.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.”
The Fruit Hunters
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The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.
Main Street
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As wet, fluffy snow fell throughout the day, many protestors began tossing snowballs at riot police.
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The Welshman fluffed his lines with five minutes to go when he was clean through.
The Sun
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Behind Luff has soccer association president after all the tribulus prosperous uneven standard support.
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Second, he must not be sophisticated enough to read right through your semi-bluff raise.
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Although my teacher certainly wasn't bluffing, I suspect we were both looking for the same thing: a cheap fix of escapism.
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He fluffed his shot and missed the goal.
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And when it comes to yearly televised fluff (that is, if we have to choose one), there are Oscar people and there are Super Bowl people.
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Serve with fluffy rice for a tasty supper.
The Sun
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She started clawing at the mattress until she broke it open and scattered the fluffy insides all over the cell.
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It's time to call their bluff.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mid-afternoon sun shone down from a sky only occasionally enlivened by the odd fluffy cloud.
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He is a man of little bluff and much nous.
Times, Sunday Times
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His performance yesterday - including fluffing a great chance early in the second half - displayed little to suggest that this will change.
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Next thing you know, she's on "The Today Show" calling the blackmailer's bluff by tearfully going public with the pictures.
CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2007
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Feather mattresses removed, aired and fluffed before being put back in their place.
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His answer was a soft mew from Fluffy, the cat at his feet.
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Cream white and brown sugars, salt, butter and crunchy peanut butter thoroughly in large mixing bowl. Beat egg and vanilla into creamed mixture until light and fluffy.
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For the coconut and sesame seed crisps: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle, combine butter and sugar and beat until fluffy.
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Today we have seen him fluff and flounce; he has been full of verbal flatulence all day.
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This amounts to little more than a game of blind man 's bluff.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also enjoy a light, fluffy omelet, or maybe basted eggs with bacon or strawberries and dry toast.
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The cake came out of the oven flat, not fluffy.
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The leaves of the great poplar he climbed in gleamed as though polished; bead-like fruit dangled, inviting young hands to burst the green capsules open and release the fluffy seed.
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Buy premium fluffy towels and shower mat for use on viewing days only.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then potter about in a fluffy robe and visit the gym, sauna and steam room.
The Sun
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He missed in the twelfth and fourteenth minutes, although his second effort did hit the upright, and fluffed his dropped goal attempt early in the second half.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her never-ending winsomeness seems to ignore the world around her, and the film never calls her bluff.
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We enjoyed delicious fresh scallops cooked in the fluffiest batter with chips.
Times, Sunday Times
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Are the starch grains tightly packed, or open and fluffy?
Times, Sunday Times
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She's taken off her high heels and wears pink, fluffy slippers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Placing bets and calling bluffs, it's a way to blow off steam from a rigorous course schedule, a camaraderie they all share.
Whatever Happened To ... Derek O'Dell, Virginia Tech shooting survivor
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The feathers are all fluffy and downy, too soft to even make a pillow out of.
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She made the bed over again, turning the sheets and pillowcases inside out, fluffing the pillows.
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Second, a sense that writers, readers and books should dwell in a pure, fluffy space in the clouds, removed from tawdry concerns of image… or even, perhaps, human physicality.
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What if it's all fluffy white clouds and precious thoughts from here on out?
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He is a man of little bluff and much nous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps you fluffed your lines or found your mind going blank?
Times, Sunday Times
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Some people may swoon over fluffy animals - but not Maria.
Times, Sunday Times
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The show's executives called her bluff and she walked out.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the story is enlivened by photographs, Evon Zerbetz's striking linocut illustrations, and excerpts from the Marzluffs' journals, which add a certain immediacy to recollections now more two decades old: "We hear the deck and even the trees popping, like shots from a rifle, especially when the temperature drops below 0° F," Colleen writes.
Coming of Age as a Bird of Prey
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Of course, every columnist is allowed to self-fluff their outrage gland in order to spaff out their wordcount.
Times, Sunday Times
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Claire Leigh and Julia Gillick, both 29 note their ages, it's important, were thrilled at the can-do response to their letter which complained that the women's fiction section was "very light, with lots of pink fluffiness and there were no classic authors".
There's nothing wrong with judging a book by its cover | Viv Groskop
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We also take more risks than men give us credit for which means it can be very hard to tell when a woman is bluffing.
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Cream butter and vanilla essence in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
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Using a hand-held electric whisk, cream together the butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I used to play the trumpet and totally fluffed the first line.
Times, Sunday Times
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On October 14th the "Schuylkill" arrived at Gashayes Bluff, on the island of St. Simon, where he found Mr. John T. Morgan, superintendent of cutting the timber, but not "a stick of wood cut.
The Story of Commodore John Barry
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The latter had the most alluring nutty, almost sweet scent, and a light fluffy, loose texture.
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You have to call his bluff.
The Sun
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Whisk for 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead they have all called his bluff, and rightly so.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still early, before eight, but power marimba was pounding out of the restaurant and the chuffs of diesel machinery and screeching of steel-tracked dozers was coming down from the top of the bluff.
Kook
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Fluff the couscous with a fork.
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Six miles above the forks, on the west side of the Jefferson, there is a bluff or point of a high plain jutting into the valley to the brink of the river, which bears some resemblance to a beaver's head, and goes by that name.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Once cooked, the flesh is almost fluffy, like a sweet potato - but without so much starchiness.
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He had been steering by the feel of the wind on his face and the luff of the trysail.
CORMORANT
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People are still worshipping cute fluffy kittens in direct contradiction to the UN Resolution 1441.
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Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff.
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A cloud like a fluffy white crocodile basked at the bottom of the vast open fan of fading turquoise sky.
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Because of the inherent fluffiness of the fluffy white bathrobe, you spend an inordinate amount of time snuggling down into it, like a kid in pyjamas waiting to be carried up to bed.
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Jung gave police a heads-up about Saturday's search, and two volunteer reserve officers were jea oreo 04 With over a dozen volunteers trying to catch her, Oreo, a goat that has lived in the bluff along Concorde Avenue in South St. Paul for several years, looks for escape route.
News
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Cover and leave for five minutes then fluff up and stir in grilled courgette and aubergine and chopped parsley and mint.
Times, Sunday Times
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I then decided that, while the designated keyboard-defluffing penknife should best stay blunt, my other penknives could do with sharpening.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the whole, though, this is either a specialist release for real dancehall heads or a bluffer's guide for those wanting to get into the scene.
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Being able to call bluffs and recognize poor hands would be especially useful right now in dealing with North Koreas torpedoing of a South Korean ship (and death of 46 sailors).
Crocodile Dundee Diplomacy For North Korea
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‘But there's too much splashy, flashy fluff out there,’ he added.
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Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
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They don't bluff about their toughness and certainly eschew the model of the stoical, macho male.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remove from the microwave and fluff with a fork (this makes perfect rice every time and no pots to clean).
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He was a bluff, domineering character who exuded confidence though politically he often showed signs of naivety.
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That's either big news or the fluffiest fantasy of all.
Times, Sunday Times
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The machine is suitable for fluffing, edging and polishing of outsole and heel.
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No trees, no bluffs, no cabins, no telegraph poles, nothin '," moaned Red Bill; "nothin 'respectable enough nor big enough to swing the toes of a five-foot man clear o' the ground.
JAN, THE UNREPENTANT
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It is hard to read the auguries, so complex is this interplay of deception, self-deception, bluster and bluff.
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A number of fluffy clouds had just covered part of the sun making the sky turn slightly orange.
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There were people in warm, woollen scarves and thick, tall boots, and there were others in large, heavy overcoats and fluffy ear muffs.
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And the baked potatoes were fluffy beneath a sea of sour cream and butter.
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Her head was tilted up, checking the luff of the mainsail, and she didn't notice him.
CORMORANT
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Fluffy Tag Cloud angry annoying bad cat basement cat bed box car cat cheezburger classics computer costume couch cute dog do not want fud ginger has helping hungry kitteh kitten lolbirds lolcats loldogs lolkittehs love mean movies murder nap nom nom nom oh noes outside playing plotting sad scared sleeping toy treasure video want work
Li’l Pink Jellybean Toes… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The aptly titled venue was surrounded by a huge gorge, rolling bluffs and a meandering river.
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Now that she had jot down in her hard cover dark green diary with her name in cursive on the inside cover, Connie then decided to call it a night and accumulate the last five and a half hours of sleep under her fluffy flannel red and black linens.
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I don't believe he'd really do what he threatens he's only bluffing .
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It's time to call their bluff.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were lights of the fishermen out on the jetty beneath The Bluff - and there was a white shape drifting in the water close to the shore.
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Using a hand-held electric whisk, cream together the butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy.
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Sure enough, early the next summer, the spiraea's fluffy white flowers bloomed in concert with the daylily's clear yellow trumpets.
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He was no fan of the writer, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
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From the interstate highway which runs nearby, nothing about this bluff looks any different from thousands of others.
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The rest of the list of Asia also include South Korea's food, and Cambodia "fry the dog meat Wolf spider (a big fluffy appearance.
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The female sat on the eggs, fluffing out her feathers.
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You know when others are doing it to you, so call their bluff.
The Sun
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My fluffy white pillow was uncomfortably protuberant and I couldn't sleep all night.
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Choose a jacket cropped at the waist, such as a fur "chubby"—a fluffy, short jacket—bolero, cashmere wrap or stole.
The Right Length for a Winter Coat
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He tiptoed around it, trying not to get any of the putrid matter slop onto his fluffy bunny slippers.
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One of these days someone was going to call his bluff and leap over that desk to clock him one.
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Of course, some one finally receives the books (call them the dumpee) and while there isn't much in them, they are too full of fluff to help level the dining room table.
Romney lands book deal
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We even saw retail moving toward the higher-end, more expensive "fluffy" embroidered wearable.
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Those serious about magick will eventually start finding that the fluffy books don't delve deep enough and this will motivate them to search for deeper texts on the subject.
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For the cake batter, cream the butter, caster sugar and orange zest together until light and fluffy.
Times, Sunday Times
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A fluffy cloud above the majestic Royal Yacht Britannia marks it out as a centre piece.
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Whisk until light and fluffy using an electric hand whisk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once I'd escaped I walked a few blocks to the European Climate Exchange (which trades in carbon credits), where a very different, "fluffier" protest was taking root.
The Nation: Top Stories
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The bedspread was white as snow, the pillow large and fluffy, the room screamed spring.
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Just fur you Use this fab fluffy find to liven up any outfit.
The Sun
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He will use a bluff call to make contact with the target telephone and not hang up when the target does.
Corporate Cloak and Dagger
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Cream the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the beaten egg a little at a time while continuing to work.
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The bottom level below the bluffs along the riverside is the seat of the river shipping business, and has as well the usual fringe of low quarters; it is paved, and there is a broad public landing fronted by floating docks, wharf-boats, etc.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado
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In fact there are river banks and bluffs, coulees and crowns, sandhills and blue hills and unnamed prominences, ravines.
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They had just bought the most adorable little fluffy kitten.
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A good hatch from a small incubator is indicated when 70 percent or more of the eggs hatch, and the chicks are active and fluffy.
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The Pacific silverweed prefers sunny coastal dunes to marsh edges, sandy bluffs, wetland meadows and mudflats.
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HEAD north to get warm this winter by wrapping up in a fluffy bathrobe and indulging yourself at one of the region's brilliant hotel spas.
The Sun
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Even with Couric's fluff questions Palin bombed big-time.
McCain campaign adviser pushes back on Palin book
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I liked it very much, with its rich texture and flavorful bite, all fluffy batter, cheese bits and crunchy pieces of bacon.
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The "Southern Republic," from her immense size and unusually handsome equipment, was a novelty even to the river people; and each afternoon of her starting, crowds came aboard to bid farewell to friends and roam over the vessel, or collected on the bluffs above to see her swing out to the shrill notes of her "calliope," the best and least discordant on the river.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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One of the fluffy chicks takes some faltering steps under the watchful gaze of an adult flamingo.
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The fungus grows rapidly and morphologically appears woolly or fluffy.
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The bird fluffed out its feathers.
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It is characterized by a permanent stream meandering through steep sandstone bluffs.
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Fluff gently with a fork, add oil or cooking liquid, onion, bell peppers, tomato, and olives.
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He will use a bluff call to make contact with the target telephone and not hang up when the target does.
Corporate Cloak and Dagger
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In a food mixer (or with an electric hand-beater), cream the butter well then add the sugar and beat until fluffy.
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I meant to post this yesterday, but apathy repeatedly bludgeoned me over the head with a large fluffy pillow.
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I luffed for my life, for I thocht we were ower near Soa; but na, it wasnae that, it was puir Sandy Gabart's deid skreigh, or near hand, for he was deid in half an hour.
Merry Men
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Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
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It wasn't that eyes were drawn to me like I was drawn to delightfully fluffy chocolate cheesecake.
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January 17, 2008 at 5:54 am goggie came 2 us as a puppee, an we luffed him an he fit rite in wit our fambly. we luffs our goggie.
Meow meow - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The three or four monastery buildings stood alone on a grassy bluff above the river.
The Crossing-Place
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They think the government is playing a game of bluff.
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Staff there have named a small fluffy bilby after him.
The Sun
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We got into positions where we made a loose pass or fluffed it and they then shot the ball wide and took full advantage.
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The product uses many of the well-known diaper materials, fluffed pulp and super absorbent poly-acrylate, but the difference is that the plastic shell is reusable while the soiled pad can be flushed.
Richard Seireeni: How the Green Community is Giving Birth to New Brands
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Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach residents will have noticed roadside drains in their suburbs have been stencilled with the slogan ‘Water To The River’.
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She noticed some bits of fluff on the sleeve of her sweater.
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Forget the toy and just let Fluffy enjoy this colorful paper wrap saturated in pure catnip nectar.
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To no one's surprise, the plot is predictably weak, but who really cares if it's all just inconsequential fluff when the action's this much fun?
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During the breeding season, Prairie Falcons inhabit dry, open areas with cliffs and bluffs for nesting.
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Each day we saw many wild pigs ( "chancho moro") and various kinds of wild cats, including the splendid "gato once" or ounce cat, whose skin is one of the finest, and only to be compared with the "lobo" or golden otter, which has a most magnificent fluffy pelt with a golden tint on the tips.
Argentina from a British Point of View
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I was once more on the Great Conglomerate, -- here, as elsewhere, a picturesque, boldly-featured deposit, traversed by narrow, mural-sided valleys, and tempested by bluff abrupt eminences.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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His fur must hide a lot. *makes mental note to grow fluffy fur*
Duncan update « knitnut.net
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At the edge of the bluffs, visitors get beautiful views of the ocean and headlands.
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This is a bit of research into belly buttons and their fluff (or lint, as some may call it).
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Poor kitteh has a sad….*snugglols kitteh* But yur so fluffeh, yoo no can has sad!
Emo kitteh depressed - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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And then you'd write and release a song about what a stupid 14-year-old's bumfluff moustache he's got.
Hecklerspray
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I toddled into the bathroom, and first dried my eyes on a large, fluffy towel which was hanging low enough for me to reach.
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The best of it is, -- you will admit that this is neat, Fluffy, even if your slavery to the virtues compels your disapproval, -- the best of it is, the bandbox is the property of our Puggy.
Peggy
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The failure of computers to call our bluff is conclusive evidence that we are still on the winning team.
Times, Sunday Times
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You are absolutely not going to believe this, which takes us here, where irredeemably useless CPoC shill and Stephen Harper fluffer Sandy Crux has added the re-patriation of Suaad Hagi Mohamud as an official Harper Government "accomplishment" and part of his "record.
You have GOT to be fucking kidding.
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They often produce matchboxes or pill bottles with fluff, splinters and other debris that they insist are specimens that they have caught.
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Our 42nd president was another authority figure well-known for mulligans, not counting shots, and fluffing up his score.
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He was screwed; he knew it was time to stop bluffing.
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Our ‘content’ should be at all times inept, obscure, bluff, diatribe, baloney, codswallop or at worst irrelevant.
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It was obvious his agent was trying to cook up a 10m offer but we called his bluff and his game soon went off the boil.
The Sun
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The trick to a light and fluffy muffin is to not stir the batter too much.
The Sun
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anti-static anti - virus, Fang Zhu, fabric flexibility fluffy, feel comfortable.
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At the priority date, the commonest absorbent was what is referred to as cellulosic fluff or fluff pulp.
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And white bread is the fluffiest of them all.
The Sun
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It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff.
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Yet, the threat of military action, or rather the bluff, serves a purpose: Threats of military action militarizes the atmosphere.
Trita Parsi: Netanyahu and Threat of Bombing Iran -- The Bluff that Never Stops Giving?
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For another Sinhalese story of how a man and his wife "bluffed
Filipino Popular Tales
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Personal fave tracks on here would probably have to be the sublimely funky "Cool Steel" by The Firebirds, Wolf Baki's dreamlike "With You Alone" and the light and fluffy flutey "Street Waltz" from The Sante Palumbo Group.
Archive 2010-01-01
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When anybody calls their bluff and punctures this self-delusion, they can only cope by insulting and vilifying their critics.
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Such a policy would change the atmosphere and call the Abkhaz bluff -- forcing them to negotiate in earnest and confront the issue that holds the key to their future status: Abkhaz responsibilities to their prewar Georgian population.
Bullies of the Caucasus
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Liza was in there, a dressing gown falling off her shoulders to reveal a hastily retrieved nightie and slippers that were so fluffy they were hardly distinguishable as shoes at all.
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Beds are fitted with Egyptian cotton linen and the stylish bathrooms have fluffy towels and bathrobes and plentiful toiletries, which you are invited to take away.
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The bluff was wooded, and we could see but little.
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Phluff's ‘Fast Movers’ feels like we're in an alternate universe where breakbeat broke out in the 60s.
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The actress was so absent-minded that she fluffed her lines.
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The head librarian, who could have posed for Norman Rockwell, doddered about the place fluffing up the books and tidying the shelves.
1 800 GOA WAYY
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Cream the butter and icing sugar together until light and fluffy.
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Whisk until light and fluffy using an electric hand whisk and spoon into the cases.
Times, Sunday Times
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He will use a bluff call to make contact with the target telephone and not hang up when the target does.
Corporate Cloak and Dagger
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He lives in the lonely lands where mighty rivers twist in long reaches between the barren bluffs; where the prairies stretch out into billowy plains of waving grass, girt only by the blue horizon, plains across whose endless breadth he can steer his course for days and weeks and see neither man to speak to nor hill to break the level; where the glory and the burning splendor of the sunsets kindle the blue vault of heaven and the level brown earth till they merge together in an ocean of flaming fire.
Frontier Types
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His amiable personality and bluff manner had an impact and he came across as the straightforward soldier, doing his best for the country.
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The Yorkshire was superb, the vegetables flavoursome, the roast potatoes crunchy, fluffy and floury.
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I'd love to do something light and fluffy next.
The Sun
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They were to live at the Bluff homestead, a cob house built in 1860 of clay and chopped tussock.
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Below stretched Carnmore, a water-filled trench hemmed in by brooding peaks and startling rock bluffs, mile upon mile of rugged isolation.
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Blunt Limerick man and bluff Tipperary man did not enjoy the most harmonious of relationships.
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He will use a bluff call to make contact with the target telephone and not hang up when the target does.
Corporate Cloak and Dagger
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Finally, he takes a dear sweet little fluffy kitten and puts it inside a glass tank on a metal floor that is attached to the mains.
Times, Sunday Times