How To Use Puff In A Sentence

The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
The six-inch white plastic stick uses a battery-powered atomiser to create realistic puffs of "smoke," while the tip glows red with each suck. The Cigarette That’s Legal Indoors | Impact Lab
The sky began to clear and there were puffy white clouds forming as the evening faded away.
There wasn't a puff of wind for most of an unseasonally cold day and the heavy overnight rain had softened both the fairways and greens to make them more receptive.

Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
Like all the meals, the jerk comes with red peas (kidney beans) and rice, as well as plantains that are puffy, soft, and sweet like caramel.
Imagine trying to photograph a large pufferfish with the final frame while an eagle ray circles round your head - much to the amusement of the other divers from the boat.
It is becoming a taboo habit now and there are far more non-smokers than puffers.
Anyway, today we made a pistachio dacquoise (remember that a dacquoise is a meringue--whipped egg whites--with sugar and nut flour(s) folded into it), an apricot-passion-fruit gelee, some apricot glaze, two sablee dough shells (we didn't get to do those, as the only sablee dough left was too soft to work with, so we'll do it tomorrow), and each of us made an inverted puff pastry recipe and put four turns in the dough. Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts
Puffas/ subzero parkas are fine if you're sitting around doing nothing. Times, Sunday Times
In cold winter, birds puff out their feathers to keep warm.
This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets.
The parcel was in fact a huge piece of puff pasty filled with a rather creamy concoction of mushrooms and chestnuts.
As a long-time B-list critic and junketeer, my conscience has long been inured to the petty scams of the Golden Globes voter shoving another complimentary cream puff into his craw. House of Scams and Fog, Or How to Break Into Your Own Apartment
Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.
Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more.
Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall.
TSA bought a bunch of so-called puffer machines to detect explosives by blowing air on passengers, but they didn't work very well. CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009
My leg puffed up all round the insect bite.
These were beautiful altocumulus castellanus, and their puffy towers gave warning of a turbulent atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
I don't think I've ever seen so many little puffers washed up, or even just swimming around, in that part of the beach before.
A puffing kind of man
Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.” Archive 2009-03-01
She was panting: her breath forming strings of transient puffs in the cold air.
The puffed rice said shy: An artillery collapsed start others, did not know others.
After a lot of huffing and puffing, he eventually gave in to our request.
It's not fun, it does hurt, abominably, and I do feel like a lumbering bear, huffing and puffing like Pooh on a bad day.
Louise dabbed at her face with a powder puff.
This smoke or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and the hazy stretches of brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after their dispersal. The War of The Worlds
January 30, 2008 at 6:20 pm kitteh sneeks out fum unner da bed……….. sneeks into da libbing rooom ……….. throws arms out wide, dooing a mean shimmey singing shimmee shimmee coco puffs dat wuz enuf……… runs bak unner da bed paniky Son, iz time u knew… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
A dense fug of tobacco smoke hangs over them as they furiously puff away.
The Dynamo was accustomed to puffing his way through 40 unfiltered cigarettes a day, mainly in his office or his car, both now out of bounds.
He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.
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He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’
Remember that you're like a peacock on show, so puff your chest up as much as you can, try to keep your forearms just above stomach height so that your bi and triceps are slightly defined.
Gail agreed with the remainder of the fashion faux pas top ten, saving her most withering comments for shell suits and puffballs.
Venomous fish should not be confused with poisonous species, such as the infamous puffer fish, which harbor colonies of toxin-producing bacteria.
The lab is a windowless room with a blackout curtain puffed over the closed door, and when the lights are turned off, it's completely dark.
She used no make-up on her puffy face. Somewhere East of Life
Her Quaker-inspired picnic clothing is casual and fun with puffball hemlines, ruched details and delicate embroidery all in bright shades of orange and light yellow.
I was expecting to see puffins, exciting divers and a variety of waders.
During rush hour in the mornings and afternoons, Caribbean cities are dominated by metal, plastic and rubber objects, puffing hydrocarbons and other gases into the atmosphere.
It looked like a pat of butter caught in the midst of an ocean, with puffy marshmallows snuggling up.
The stupor becomes rapidly more marked, the eyes become puffy and swollen with excessive lacrimation, so that the tears run from the internal canthus of the eye over the cheeks and may blister the skin in their course. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
He added that while the majority of snakes in our area are non-venomous, the ones people should worry about are the boomslangs, puffadders and night adders.
One moment he was standing behind me, the next he had vanished in a puff of smoke.
Both men saw the rabbit race from the branches with his little puffy tail ablaze.
This plate holds a blouse piece, betel leaves and nuts, green bangles, packets of haldi-kumkum, flowers, a small packet of chivda, puffed rice ladoos and chaklis. Archive 2007-10-01
These little puff pastries are served on a white napkin with bowls of chocolate sauce and raspberry coulis for dipping.
There is no shortage of choice, a good variety of butterflyfish, an unusual striped damselfish, puffers and a shoal of small barracuda.
The couple were wearing matching Puffa coats and walking with matching strides. TICKLED PINK
The Rat Cutter took a few defiant puffs on his cigar.
Look at you in that picture – even your overcoat is puffed up and 2 sizes too big to try stop the world realizing how small you truly are. White House fires back at Bush comments: 'We won'
Foods with high glycemic indexes, including white rice, watermelon, puffed wheat and rice, and baked potatoes, contain carbohydrates that break down quickly.
The child with a tendency toward food intolerances and environmental sensitivities often exhibits certain characteristics around the eyes, such as puffiness, dark circles, or creases below the eyes. Gentle Healing for Baby and Child
He took a long puff of his cigar then sighed, blowing a steady stream of smoke.
He came puffing up the stairs.
After a few rough starts, the label hits it big, bringing fame to Puffy and everyone he touches. Filmstalker: P. Diddy replacement required
Both fish first expand their mouths to draw in water, but the puffer then pumps the water into its stomach, while the triggerfish opens its mouth and pumps the water back out.
After all, we can puff our chests out and congratulate one another: ‘We never sold out our principles.’
He puffs and winces, excruciated with chest pains - which recur horribly in joyless mid-coitus with his other woman.
He glanced back at Vincent, who was puffing and wheezing from the walk down the tunnel under the burden of ammunition, weapons and the oppressive heat of his coat.
Presently, on the path some sixty feet above them, but hidden from them by the mass of tumbled rocks through which they had descended, they heard someone puffing and blowing, a stick striking and slipping on the stones, and weird rays of light stole down the mountain-side, and in and out of the vast blocks with which it was overstrewn. The History of David Grieve
A puff of smoke from behind a distant rock, the boom of a jezail, and Desmond fell beside the Boy, stunned by a well-aimed shot on the edge of the cheek-bone, the slug glancing off perilously close to the right eye. Captain Desmond, V.C.
Clive puffed again, then slowly pulled the pipe from his mouth and leaned back in his chair, making it rock slightly as he held the pipe in front of his face.
Logically enough, the movie tackles the Powerpuff origins, the nitty details of how they came to be and how their superhero-ness was forged.
Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
Narvaez he described as puffed up by authority, and negligent of precautions against a foe whom he held in contempt. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
The old peasant was puffing at his pipe.
There had been a puffball big enough for ten-pin bowling.
From the window she could see the docks, the harbour, the tugs that brought cargoes in and out and puffed stertorously, shaking the very air with their efforts. Shallow Soil
The pears had been barely cooked and they perched on a puff pastry tarte with no caramelisation in sight.
Identification of Potential Transcriptional Regulatory Elements by Comparison of Human and Pufferfish Genomic Sequences.
The hill was very steep and I soon ran out of puff.
An average puff of a cigarette has been estimated to contain 4 billion particles of dust.
Women wore a huipil with short, puffed sleeves, a tightly wrapped skirt called a refajo, and a large, bright cotton cloth on the head.
To avoid morning eye or facial puffiness, sleep on your back so fluid doesn't collect there.
And all through this, his breath came in even puffs against my cheek.
He took a long puff of his cigar then sighed, blowing a steady stream of smoke.
This stagnant Japan myth put about as a consequence of some macroeconomic data and a rise in unemployment to levels that the United States would love, is journalistic puff-puff.
Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish.
The lesson here is that long and low is always chic, and to avoid at all costs what I call 'furniture on steroids': American designs are generally so supersized and big and puffy. Silver-Screen Décor
She has a lurid past of big yellow puffa skirts, fake orange tan and nun's habit dresses.
My arm muscles were cramped up and felt like they were made of lead, my eyes were swelling and my cheeks felt puffy and warm.
By the time the first fight broke out I was gripped - feathers were puffed up to ensure maximum hard-man appearance and then a very undignified battle ensued, involving lots of running jumps and flapping and pecking.
He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight.
She was puffing on a cigarette at the time.
With her puff of black hair and sharp violet eyes, she shone out from among the other homogenous bland and blonde MGM beauties of her time, suggesting intelligence behind the acting.
Colonel Fergusson had his eyes closed and was breathing out through his nose in long smooth puffs like a bellows.
These ‘resistance’ characters include such obvious traits as the quills on a porcupine or the puffing of a puffer fish.
That's why the cost of adopting a cute little puffin is the same as adopting larger, perhaps less cute, animals. 'Adopt' Your Favorite Animal On Facebook
I bought a delicious palmier, brioche, a jam pastry, sausage puffs, an éclair, a dozen cookies, a bag of shortbread for my mom and a bag of pastry cheese twists. Bon Ton Pastry, Sun Sui Wah & Tojo’s « I HEART BACON
But surely this is just as difficult as policing bars for errant puffers?
Her eyes were invisible in the puffy purpling of bruised flesh. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Typically, the ground grows warm enough to launch a big bubble of warm air that turns into a puffy cloud and rains. Times, Sunday Times
But after intermission Maazel and the Philharmonic turned to Sibelius, which predictably got a thorough workout -- what with all the huffing and puffing, harumphing and galumphing of its broadly built themes, its grandly simple, architectural layout. Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras
After the puffball has matured, the contents change into a brown, dustlike mass, and the top falls off; and it is then inedible. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)
The forehead is shorter, the cheeks puffier. Times, Sunday Times
On a recent visit to Arran, I talked to an elderly resident who recalled that during her childhood there were small puffer boats that people could hop on to travel short distances around the coast, rather than travelling overland.
Of course, it's not good to see a cherished icon of the community disappear in a puff of smoke, but I can't pretend my feelings about the disappearance of this old bird were anything but mixed.
The Vegas audience of polyester-clad gamblers and middle-aged couples contrast starkly with the fag-puffing, beer-swilling crowds at home.
His ankles and face looked puffy and swollen but there was no sign of sunburn or skin blistering. Times, Sunday Times
In between puffs on the ever-present cigarette he will reminisce about golf for hours.
The show will spotlight the classic Bunny costume, one of the most recognizable outfits of all time, complete with bursting cleavage, name-tag rosette and a tail that Norman Mailer once called "the puff of chastity. The Bunny Is Back
He looks far younger and, even with grizzle around the mouth, is incomparably better looking than the paunchy Officer Peterson of the puffy eyelids. A Story of Two Wives
Turning, she saw her husband puffing away at his brierwood pipe. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life
Gil puffed on his cigarette and sipped his brandy.
I wore my black and pink pleated skirt, blue puffy sleeved top, brown waistcoat and a brown bob wig.
His bare feet disturbed the red dust of the path down to the granite-basined river, and tiny clouds puffed out on each side of the way at every footfall. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
Grains rich in fibres are barley, oatmeal, maize, wheat flour, jowar, bajra, whole wheat, rice flakes, refined wheat flour (without husk) and puffed rice. Effective Home Remedies for Diabetes
The puff-and-serve chapattis, high-protein biscuits and vermicelli kheer are doing well at the retail market place, thank you.
One moment he was standing behind me, the next he had vanished in a puff of smoke.
He was too puffed up with his own importance, too blinded by vanity to accept their verdict on him.
And rather than go hungry, the birds are preying on other seabirds like puffins and kittiwakes.
The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ... Archive 2009-10-01
… So: dusk in the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing… Forgive me luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
As Levi points out, someone who is a casual or even first-time visitor might not recognize the dishonesty of a troll like dochunt, since he couches his trollery in puffed-up pseudo-academic arrogance. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 8, 2010
I suck a Ventolin puffer a few times a year when the dust gets too much and my pipes get tight.
England were able to shift the heavier Welsh pack around the paddock, presuming that the men in red shirts would run out of puff.
Simply cut croustades in desired shape and size from puff pastry dough sheets.
‘Wild puffins normally eat live whitebait, sprats and sand eels which they dive in the sea for,’ said Mrs Platts.
This ornamental grass is also called puffed wheat and big quaking grass. BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are the most favoured items of diet.
I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing.
I don't need to lead you through the thickets of distortion, deceit, and self-puffery here.
The light puff-pastry melts away to release the flavours of subtly seasoned potatoes or cauliflower.
And within the field, status comes from puffing up racial bragging points.
It can be hard to find that perfect Elvis-style shirt - something in pink and black with a tall collar, say, or a velvet number with puffed sleeves.
Signs that we're burning the candle at both ends often show up in and around the eyes as redness, puffiness and dark circles.
The so-called puffer machines, they're the ones where you stood. CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2009
Venomous fish should not be confused with poisonous species, such as the infamous puffer fish, which harbor colonies of toxin-producing bacteria.
Lady Hervey, who is your puff and panegyrist, writes me word that she saw you lately dance at a ball, and that you dance very genteelly. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Puffs of smoke billowed from underneath juniper and pinyon trees as flames licked at the trees. Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears
A sudden gust of wind from the open window puffed the candle out.
Let's face it, buttery puff pastry either needs to be warm to entice me, or feather-light crisp.
Puffed sleeves and flounces convey a playful, romantic look.
All this confusion and misery is going to blow away like a puff of smoke, and I'm going to be cured?
Similarly, tetrodotoxin is another blocker of certain voltage-gated Na+ channels that occurs in numerous species of animals, including the puffer fish, Tetraodontidae spp., and newts, Taricha spp. and Cynops spp.
This under ripe onion is harvested green, when the puffballs or blossoms are blooming.
Bake for 15 minutes until puffy and golden. Times, Sunday Times
Many species - including gannets, puffins, guillemots, and kittiwakes - nest on cuffs over 900 feet high.
Again, papads are rolled out paper thin whereas poppadoms are rolled out a little thicker and puff up more.
It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, prepared by itself, was most delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed to me superior even to salmon. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
This dazzling white 93-feet structure, the tallest tower in Oregon, is the centerpiece of the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, where puffins, murres, cormorants, and harbor seals make their home.
The galette was a cinch to put together- blitz some nuts and sugar in the Cuisinart and sprinkle on the puff pastry, place sliced fruit on top of sugar mixture, brush some egg wash around the rim, sprinkle the top with additional sugar and bake. Archive 2007-05-01
There was complete and utter silence as Maggie looked around and the train puffed slowly away, gaining speed until it was a speck at the end of the valley.
Bake for 30 minutes or until the pastry is puffy and golden. The Sun
There were only a few light puffy clouds in the blue sky.
Wind caught the sudden puff of dust and blew it inland.
From surreal puffball skirts to bulbous tops and slashed skirts, his clothes are not for the timid.
Other men sport a variety of eye-catching styles, such as the "shag" - picture a puffy mullet. Reader - MassLive.com
Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled. Chapter 9
She wore a flowing pale yellow skirt with ruffles and a silken blouse with puffed sleeves.
In operation, Puff's "flare kicker" illuminated the target, then the pilot used a mark on his left window as a gun sight, and circled slowly as three multibarrel machine guns fired 18,000 rounds per minute from the door and two windows in the port side of the rear compartment. Collins, Willard M.
Some ABC bunting waiting in vain for a puff of wind
My grandmother would send me to phys ed in a navy-blue, puffy-sleeved, one-piece cashmere sweat suit with a patent-leather belt, and warn me not to sweat in it, since it was dry-clean only. I know i am, but what are you?
There are some of those most densely coloured of sea-birds, Mediterranean Gulls with their deep black cap and blood-red bill of executioners, puffing and rolling against allcomers. Observer's Books for ever
He is middleaged, puffy faced and unshaven. Times, Sunday Times
Already he discerned an air of bustle about the house, for Lady Hester's abigail was hurrying up the stairs, accompanied by one of the maids, and the stout housekeeper, pausing only to bob a curtsy to her master as he came out of the parlour, set her foot on the bottom stair and began to puff her way up. Gatlinburg
Our concept of the fungi often ends with a few fleshy Basidiomycetes (agarics, boletes, puff balls) or even fewer Ascomycetes (morels and truffles). Huitlacoche
Casual gardeners may envision low shrubs with puffball blooms in shades of pink and blue, but these so-called mophead hydrangeas—technically known as Hydrangea macrophylla—are only the most common varietal out there, and in my experience, aren't reliable bloomers. Hydrangeas' Fall Flower Show
Our train puffed away from the station ten minutes late.
Scapa Beach has been particularly badly affected, with over 200 guillemots found as well as puffins, razorbills and tysties.
On September 15th we reached the top of the ascent which, from its many ups and downs, had often made us puff and blow as if broken-winded. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
There was a puff of steam from the engine before it stopped.
At other tables, several pasty-faced types in puffed-out shirts lazily gorged themselves on cruisers' cuisine.
He puffed a cloud of cigarette smoke into my eyes.
Snapping out of her trance, she stood up quickly and found herself staring at some stranger with spiked brownish hair and an extremely large puffy jacket.
As I completed my 26th lap the Porsche puffed blue smoke.
I believe in young folks makin 'all they can o' theirselves," announced Martin, puffing hard at his pipe and drawing a little farther still from the fireplace, because the scorching red coals had begun to drop beneath the forestick. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
Sometimes the train puffed between lines of grey slab fencing in which were armies of white skeleton trees that had been 'rung' for extermination, or with bleached stumps sticking up in a chaos of felled trunks, while in some there had sprung up sickly iron-bark saplings. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
He was in poor condition and puffed like a grampus, and he seemed to have no sort of head for heights. Greenmantle
Different tasty kickshaws baked in a puff pastry.
Cat looked down, and took a puff from her cigarette.
Generally he sat clasping one knee, staring directly in front of him, and puffing regularly on a "meerschaum" pipe he had earned by saving the tags of Spearhead tobacco. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
It may be due to some slight puff of wind or a tremor of the earth.
I was expecting to hear waves, wind, drops of water, a few puffins chirping away, perhaps even some crashing sounds as ice falls into the sea.
Profits for calendar 2003 are likely to be puff ahead by around £70m at £2.56 bn.
There in front of me a man-made object was seemingly defying the laws of physics, because it remained sideways moving at the same rate of speed with puffy white smoke billowing from the tires — the sound and smell of rubber being scrapped across pavement, in a way it was not designed to, filled the air around us. Driving story from heck
The biggest puffer in this Parliament has started to talk about how great the sense of having one's brain fogged up is for one.
At one point, a huge puffer vied for attention with an even bigger hogfish, while an eagle ray dug into the sand beneath an overhang of soft corals.
Shoving his hands into the pockets of his tremendously puffy jacket, he heard crinkling and pulled out a slight crumpled piece of paper.
I mixed in some spices - namely cardamon, tumeric, peppers, cinnamon, cloves, and coriander - into the potatoes and wrapped them in puff pastry. Samosa-esque left overs
Bert blew on his knuckles, like a gunman puffing smoke from the barrel of his revolver.
Daily Eye Benefits boost microcirculation and so coaxes excess fluid away from the eye area in order to reduce puffiness.
I want to set it down, push it away, but instead I take another puff — smaller this time — and manage to pass the burdenous arm back to Pablo without another episode. “ LuLu
dredger" came its rounds; and, for fear he should miss the warm consolations of a lower third "Scrunch," they organised one for his special benefit, and had the happiness of seeing him rising in the middle, scared and puffing, with cheeks the colour of a peony. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton
The runner puffed out the news of the victory.
She tried her darnedest, huffed and puffed her lungs out, but could not activate the gadget, much less register any reading even after several attempts.
There was something, too, of the frost-work's evanescent spiritual quality in the scene -- as though at any moment, with a puff of the balmy summer wind, the radiant glade, the hovering figure, the filagreed silver of the entire setting would melt into the accustomed stern and menacing forest of the northland, with its wolves, and its wild deer, and the voices of its sterner calling. The Blazed Trail
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She slid into the seat behind me, huffing and puffing like she was breathing with one lung.
He often puffs cigarette smoke in other's face for fun.
Bake for 30 minutes or until the pastry is puffy and golden. The Sun
The camphor in the gel will help soothe, while arnica, a natural astringent, will help reduce puffiness.
Is there a better example of truth in advertising than the name cream puffs? Cake Boss
Return for a further 10 minutes until puffy and golden. Times, Sunday Times
It was after 4pm by now, and Puffing Billy had gone for the day, so I looked around for the road back to Belgrave, to see if I could beat the train to the trestle bridge, the one in all the postcards.

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