How To Use Puffing In A Sentence

A battery powers an atomizer which is triggered by "puffing" on the cartridge of the device. Health and Medical Online News, Reports and Information
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.
A puffing kind of man
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.

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.
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.’
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.
He came puffing up the stairs.
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
The old peasant was puffing at his pipe.
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.
These ‘resistance’ characters include such obvious traits as the quills on a porcupine or the puffing of a puffer fish.
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
The Vegas audience of polyester-clad gamblers and middle-aged couples contrast starkly with the fag-puffing, beer-swilling crowds at home.
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
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
And within the field, status comes from puffing up racial bragging points.
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
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
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
Bert blew on his knuckles, like a gunman puffing smoke from the barrel of his revolver.
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
She slid into the seat behind me, huffing and puffing like she was breathing with one lung.
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.
There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Chimneys were puffing out clouds of smoke.
Saïd and Khaled spend most of their time drinking tea, puffing on a hookah and talking in circular logic.
The readers who were huffing and puffing in Downer's defence, or accusing you of gutter journalism, most likely have their snouts in various troughs themselves.
We were huffing and puffing by the time we'd climbed to the top of the hill.
Bill is puffing and blowing, but there is a look of ineffable peace and growing content on his rose-pink features.
He reminded his frantically puffing audience that smoking was a well-known antidote to the predations of the great horse fly, or cleg.
David chuckled, gurgled, and puffingly mounted higher. Janet of the Dunes
He shuffled his way around the streets dragging his right leg behind him, a bit like "the mummy" in the old movies, puffing away at a dowt he had picked up in the gutter and wearing a cloth cap and raggy clothes.
Sometimes he would throw himself down on the towel rack, panting and puffing in total exhaustion.
Matey Weyburn's object of worship rode superior to a morality puffing its phrasy trumpet. Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete
At least on the streets there was no pretend law being bothered with in a pretend way, just people puffing, victimising only themselves.
Beneath an elegant cornice of acanthus-leaf scrolls, the top two floors are delineated by a stringcourse of shells, tridents, and sea creatures, and a symmetrical pattern of square and circular cartouches, the latter of which depict a majestic eagle-like bird puffing out its breast and extending its wings. Ruffled Feathers on Fifth Avenue
Huston merely strolls around on the sidelines, puffing a cigarillo and looking rueful.
And didn’t she up in sorgues and go and trot doon and stand in her douro, puffing her old dudheen, and every shirvant siligirl or wensum farmerette walking the pilend roads, Sawy, Finnegans Wake
He sat puffing his pipe.
A table of four middle-aged Neapolitan men, puffing on big cigars with all the assurance of the beginner, while eyeing up the three unreachably teenage, unreachably American girls on the table next door.
Hubert was a huffing and puffing and smoking, and his heart was ready to crap out.
By the time Mr. Mineo had everything under control, he was huffing and puffing with the exertion.
A chilling hospital scene depicts zombified patients walking up and down a small corridor in rhythmic despair, pushing their IV stands and furiously puffing away on their oral fixatives.
Much of the travel was aboard a charming little narrow-gauge railway train hauled by elderly puffing steam locomotives.
The "puffing" from the AGB star converting into the PNN Planetary Nebula Nucleus is not like a switch that is instantly turned off, but is likely an intermittent affair. Red Giant Brightness Variations Still Mysterious | Universe Today
She lit up a cigarette and began puffing at it unconsciously.
Eventually all the beautiful people were puffing robustos and coronas while schmoozing, partying and sauntering among the paparazzi.
It is a million miles away from the romantic shots of steam trains puffing their way across rural landscapes that most of us are used to.
As for the lawyers, Dick Leighton informs me that he is the absolute very best false adverting lawyer ever to exist anywhere in the world to speak about puffing. Archive 2009-06-01
Puffing on the single-gauge track was a "dinky" engine, coupled to a flat car. Still Jim
But it didn't matter, for at that moment, the door burst open, and a short man entered the room, puffing and wheezing heavily.
Adam swayed back and forth, gasping and puffing.
Saxon heard the uptown train puffing and snorting as it pulled out from Center Street. CHAPTER IX
Natalie's eyes started watering and puffing up.
Eventually, puffing and panting, he arrived at the gate.
The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis. When You're Desperate
Patterson said: ‘He's short of match practice and he was huffing and puffing a bit towards the end but he gave his all and everything considered he did a great job for us.’
In the spring, the male attracts females by gobbling, puffing his feathers, spreading his tail, swelling his face wattles, and drooping his wings.
This here business is something that can be settled without any row, Mr. Hammond -- if that's your name," said the officer, puffingly. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
Here he was, dressed in corduroy trousers and a light-blue shirt; concentrating, eyes half closed or fully shut; defined gestures; confident breath; fingers flat on the open holes of his clarinet; the muscles of his mouth tight, yet not puffing out his cheeks around the mouthpiece; his upper lip surprisingly mobile, at times seeming to inhale and swallow the top of the reed and at times curling back as if to convey its decision to keep its distance, disavow that nasty instrument, and, all of a sudden, with sovereign authority, literally cut off its breath … In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)
Why did not he by testament leave them, at least, some jolly lumps and cantles of substantial meat, a parcel of cheek-puffing victuals, and a little belly-timber and provision for the guts of these poor folks, who have nothing but their life in this world? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
He was puffing slightly and grinning like a maniac.
Jimmy led them, his hands deep in his pockets, puffing white steam-clouds at regular intervals from his "meerschaum" pipe. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
The image of Gitanes-puffing, beret-clad Monsieurs enjoying a game of pétanque in the Provençal sunshine is about as idiosyncratically-French as it gets.
Admin blinked at the question, puffing some smoke.
And being Scottish we have about four layers of clothing too many and are pink-faced and puffing in a decidedly imperfect not straight-out-of-a-brochure kind of a way.
Even with his offending ankle numbed by a painkiller shot, he appeared uncomfortable, huffing and puffing and repeatedly tying his shoe between pitches.
She was still puffing from the climb.
The old peasant was puffing at his pipe.
Half the time, all Charles needs to do is point the camera: the Institute for Science and Halacha, in Jerusalem, is a mad nest of creaking, puffing, Sabbath-circumventing machines — no commentary required. An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
Antoine, who toiled puffingly, Jacques, who stepped daintily and seemed fearful of treading on stones and briars, and last of all François, who moved at a measured pace, with long strides, retaining his air of profound meditation. An Enemy to the King
WSJ's Daniel Michaels looks back at some of the world's speediest vehicles, from the Puffing Billy to the Concorde. Shuttles Find Final Homes
They are so preoccupied with puffing up their own image and self-esteem that everything else just has to go hang.
Most smokers know they will get lung cancer, but they continue puffing away.
Bill is puffing and blowing, but there is a look of ineffable peace and growing content on his rose-pink features.
As a new technology of food manufacturing, Microwave puffing tech no logy is becoming widely use in food industry, especially in snack food sector.
It caused uproar at the time, but the wily Italian must be sitting back with a smug smile, puffing on that metaphorical cigar.
He caught up with Gary, puffing for breath .
This is her kind of puffing out, you know, snorting out in sort of disgust. David Griffin on how photography connects us
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
Popo rises behind it with snow on his peak and smoke lazily puffing from the caldera. On the road to becoming an authentic "poblano"
He was sitting on his porch, as always, rocking in his rocking chair and puffing on his pipe.
I remember the smokestack on the train puffing thick black smoke into the air.
Cyril works as a co-bouncer (with the humourless Nigel) and occasional singer in a seedy niterie, the Blue Cockatoo Club, owned by the cigar-puffing Colwyn Stanley, a former bed-mate of Cyril's mother.
Ye scum -- ye recrement -- why do ye run? "said the knight, puffing with great vigour. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
Rain poured down, stinging her eyes, warm breath puffing in front of her face.
Video from a robotic submersible, which is making the rounds online, shows something puffing from the seafloor. Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil spill
The corridor is usually full of people puffing away and a thick blanket of smoke hangs in the air.
When he's not munching his way through a plate of bacon sarnies he's puffing away steadily on a succession of Gitanes, which no doubt help explain that gravelly voice.
We drew apart, the mist from our breath puffing into each other's faces.
But while such signs of speculation are troubling, there is little solid evidence that a real estate bubble is puffing up.
You sit alone in a bright, comfortable room; the clock ticks companionably; there is no other sound in the world except the constant scratching of your pen, and the occasional far-off puffing of a freight-train coming into Lichfield; there is snow outside, but before your eyes someone, that is not you exactly, arranges and redrills the scrawls which will bring back the sweet and languid summer and remarshal all its pleasant trivialities for anyone that chooses to read through the printed page, although he read two centuries hence, in Nova Zembla .... The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
Simone was now by my side, puffing on a cigarette.
We believe, we really do, that Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings will see us puffing dutifully around the rain-sodden streets or enthusiastically grabbing cozzie and towel and setting off for the local baths instead of curling up with a takeaway and a DVD. Home | Mail Online
They're off, huffing and puffing through this grueling physical education training under a blazing sun that's far away from home.
I could hear Milly huffing and puffing with the exertion of it.
I’m deeply, honestly, heart puffingly pleased with it. To da PIMPS | Her Bad Mother
To his left and right, men broke from the packing of their supplies to watch him run down the row, steam puffing from the horse's nostrils.
Similarly, the situation in Cuba should remind us that "strength" is not a politician puffing out his chest and pigheadedly walking into the very caricatures our enemies have been peddling, so as to potentially alienate indigenous populations that may have otherwise been sympathetic to our goals. Bush Walks Right Into Castro's Trap
I don't think any amount of huffing and puffing across the political divide is going to change Greencore's calculated business decision.
By the time I'm on the third or fourth interval, I'm huffing and puffing down along the Hudson River, wondering how the hell it was possible I actually ran a marathon some five months ago.
I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us
Sterne then wrote a letter puffing his work which he passed off as the spontaneous praise of the young singer, Catherine Fourmantel, then his mistress.
Any athlete, and perhaps especially any runner, can tell you some of the most sublime, lucid moments of introspection come to you while huffing and puffing and pacing in the heat of sport.
I was huffing and puffing, trying to get my breath back.
For everybody who figured there was no way he would manage the Tigers beyond this season, for all those who couldn't envision a comeback after Detroit fell behind by eight games in early May, Leyland sat in his office puffing on his own celebratory stogie, a black "2011 MLB Playoffs" hat on his head. Detroit Tigers Clinch AL Central Division Title
I was puffing after swimming so far.
Even during exercise, when we need more oxygen, we tend to get it by breathing faster - huffing and puffing - not by breathing deeper, says Davenport.
Himself stooped puffingly to pick up the segregated sack. The Enormous Room
I just wanted to say that all the huffing, puffing and finger-wagging from the left about this clip is really entertaining. Waldo Jaquith - Bush attempts to give German Chancellor a rubdown.
The track shows leading lady Priyanka puffing a 'chillum' (pipe) while she sings 'Dum Maro, yeh hai Sahara'. India eNews
As the man comes closer, you notice he is puffing at a pipe, while the other hand is buried deep in the pocket of his coat.
Anyway, an alert reader points out that a new, "fire-safe" type of cigarette is being foisted on the puffing public, by governmental mandate, and the new smokes are not going over well with the addicted consumers. From bad to worse (Jack Bog's Blog)
She pulled the door back and forth to make the smoke drift outside, and left it open before going into the kitchen where her dad was sitting at the table, lonesomely puffing away on his cigarette.
He was upright in an instant, huffing and puffing with such violence that his entire body seemed to quake and quiver with every breath.
Alternatively cooked and extruded rice products can be similarly improved with torula yeast prior to puffing.
One elderly man with a hookah at his table stopped puffing to say: ‘He's homesick.’
After circling the animal for a few minutes - and puffing on another cigarette - Wills began taking his photographs.
He was puffing in short breaths and barely noticed his daughter pointing in the direction ahead of her.
After a bit of huffing and puffing - men can't do anything without a bit of huff and puff - he will eventually slope off, only to return a few minutes later minus the mop.
After running 1 000 metres, he was panting and puffing.
He rolled his eyes at his mother, who was practically puffing up in indignation for the termagant who had all but threw him out of her home after the argument they had about the engagement.
Mack pounded over to them, puffing and panting like he'd just run the marathon.
Or maybe its a little pugilistic prestidigitation to avoid showing an aging action queen huffing and puffing in between roundhouses.
While I still had the same muscle tone, I decided - yes, once again - to get back on the wagon and start huffing and puffing the excess weight off.
Before long he was huffing and puffing, his dark neck thrust out at a sharp angle.
Lionel was puffing, and his speech came haltingly, in short phrases and words.
It was noon next day when he stood on the platform, the train breathing steam alongside like an impatient dragon or an old scholar puffing poppy heads.
The art ... the talent is all that matters to us, the public until our puffing up of said star's balloon bursts all loudly and messily when it touches the needle of human frailty. The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson
Phil, it’s disapointing that you are so ready to lampoon the excesses of Web 2.0 and other tech fluffery, but don’t perceive the limitations of your own background in puffing up another of the thousands of pointless developers’ concoctions. Wyacracker shoots skywards « Squash
I am distracted by Obama's purple lips and odd stickout ears, as well as his occasional cheek puffing. The American Spectator
Perhaps, his huffing and puffing is just venting and release of his demons. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 11, 2010
His mouth got wider than it seemed possible, puffing short bursts of air out trying to make it sound like a laugh.
He was huffing and puffing something fierce, distending his cheeks with every exhalation.
His light brown hair waved back almost to his shoulders while still puffing outward slightly.
Mist on the mountain draws me back sun on the sea so grand steam trains puffing on the railroad track away in the Isle of Man.
Even if trains aren't your thing, ask for a demonstration anyway, and be intrigued by the sounds of the miniature trains puffing along the track, the shovelling of coal and the hiss of the brakes.
The result was that Grattan was sought out and offered the post of chief of the knocking-shop police, which he accepted, puffing his long nose and bland as you please. Isabelle
Taylor wasn't the only Scottish forward puffing and blowing towards the end of the game, and when it came to tempo there was only one team dictating it.
In his footsteps walked a succession of talented Spaniards, such as Miguel Angel Jiménez, the ponytailed, cigar-puffing eccentric of Europe's winning Ryder Cup team in Wales last year. Seve Ballesteros: European golf's greatest hero is gone
With three adults on board, it was huffing and puffing up some of the steeper inclines.
‘I really think that's a little presumptuous of you to characterize me as such so early in the game,’ I said, puffing up like a blowfish.
Every time he halted, the better to trim some detail of the load, or puffingly to mop the greasy flow of perspiration, he furtively surveyed all the corners of the horizon and scrutinized the edges of the wood. Under Fire: the story of a squad
I'm deeply, honestly, heart puffingly pleased with it. To da PIMPS
There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
Nate looked proud, puffing on his pipe as he told us about his adventure.
Holding on to the halter around the neck of the cow as he tried to settle the riled up animal, was David, with two puffing dogs at his heels.
Now, how sorry we feel for those other globe trotters on the launch, birring along behind a hot, bubbling, puffing, steam kettle -- and so crowded, and in this heat too, whilst we extend at our ease in a white and sky-blue boat, with pink cushions, and dreamily listen to the silky frou frou of the southern sea. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
During the breeding season, groups of males do their courtship display together, puffing out air sacs in their chest and spreading their tails.
Regan gazed abstractedly up at the ceiling, puffing away at his cigar.
My father sat puffing contentedly on his pipe.
The first shot we get of the title character is his puffing breathlessly across a rooftop, face buggy-eyed.
The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis. When You're Desperate
Exhausted musicians huddle in doorways puffing on cigarettes and cradling warm coffee, trying to work the feeling back into limbs gone numb from nearly six kilometres of marching and holding heavy white tubas and bass drums aloft.
His fear is -- that Blackwood may come as Nemesis, and compel him to regorge any puffing and cramming which Tiff has put into his pocket, and is earnest to have a letter addressed in an influential quarter to prevent this. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
By the time they turn 15, they're puffing on 15 cigarettes every day.
Here and there a man is puffing at his beloved "gasper" with the nonchalance that marks your bull-dog breed when stern work is afoot. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14
Did she, in fact, see in the future taking some time off figuratively puffing on a corncob pipe and watching the sunset over the mountains from a porch swing? Holly Cara Price: Amanda Palmer on Life, Art, Music, and Smashing Paradigms: So Much is Possible, and I Want to Do it All!
He was wearing his work uniform, his hair flying in his face as he skidded to a stop before them, huffing and puffing from the exertion.
All their harp-jangling is to me so much coughing and puffing of phantoms; what have they ever known of the ardour of tones! Quick Review 01 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
He sat there, puffing away at a cigarette.
Again despite all the huffing and puffing, despite Cork's famous facility for interpreting the rule-book to suit themselves, that was wrong too.
There was the classic occasion which saw him run into the gym puffing, panting and dripping with sweat.
Beneath the darkening sky, wranglers make final adjustments to harnesses and jingling bells as the teams of locomotive-size draft horses shift impatiently, clouds of steam puffing from their noses.
Not far from Malbaie, he saw the so-called "porpoises," or white whales, (beluga, French, _marsouin_) that still disport themselves in great numbers in these waters, come puffing to the surface and writhe their whole length into view like miniature sea-serpents. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
He said Knapp was "puffing" - saying what he thought a real arms dealer would want to hear. Phillies Zone
The contention ceassing for the night season, Messer Currado, who though he had slept well, remained still discontented in his minde: arose in the morning by breake of day, and puffing and blowing angerly, called for his horses, commanding Chichibio to mount on one of them; so riding on towards the River, where (earely every morning) he had seene plenty of Cranes, he sayde to his man; The Decameron
It's difficult to imagine him as anything but the Dean of Students, as some lowly history major puffing on swag.
We were huffing and puffing by the time we'd climbed to the top of the hill.
I saw one guy guzzling a bottle of beer, another puffing happily on a joint.
These days the restaurant's patrons are more likely to be talking about multimedia money than to be philosophically puffing Gauloise smoke into the air.
Yes, I know that I just got through telling you that I've got my windows open, but I'm not out there huffing and puffing lots of the nasty stuff into my lungs.
We sat in silence for a few minutes until our peace was shattered as a messenger ran up to us, puffing and panting.
The brick chimney was puffing little gray rings of wood smoke.
The image of anxious and world-weary detectives puffing frantically on cigarettes outside interview rooms may still be a hallmark of TV drama.
I quite like the thought of it being written in a staff room by bored and bearded school teachers, puffing on pipes and whiling away dreary lunch breaks.
And didn’t she up in sorgues and go and trot doon and stand in her douro, puffing her old dudheen, and every shirvant siligirl or wensum farmerette walking the pilend roads, Sawy, Finnegans Wake
He rarely gave interviews, but in 1984 he told Reuters, described as professorial and puffing on a cigar, "I suppose I'm a piece of national treasure, well-protected and immune from all kinds of turbulence. Lineal Descendant of Confucius Fostered Tradition
Lance Darby, a fair-haired, rosy-cheeked lad, who was Chet's particular chum, was ahead and he came, puffingly, to a stop just before Laura. The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize
You certainly know it's a quaint country town, too, because the station master has mutton chops and immediately complains about a disagreement over the tea room, and because every sound effect is a duck quacking or the butcher's preferred refrain ( "scum!"), and because the narrator's ponderous delivery is continually enlivened by a "puffing conveyance", "vittles" or a "muuuurdeeeer". caribou nibbling the hoops (and believe me when I tell you there is no greater praise), but as you set about interrogating the town's charmingly stereotypical inhabitants you realise this is more than a convenient hook. Eurogamer
When I arrived, Schwarzenegger, in a blue suit and cowboy boots emblazoned with the California state seal, was contentedly puffing a stogie. The California Experiment
When he finally made it to the venue of Lord Fraser's inquiry into the new Scottish parliament building he was huffing and puffing - and was aghast to be met by a further flight of stairs to the waiting room for witnesses.
He finds her standing on the terrace in an old cashmere pullover, puffing on her morning cigarette.
Even the frog took a turn, standing on a shoebox and puffing his cheeks out so hard that he turned purple.
I sighed, watching my breath catch as condensation in the air, looking like I was puffing smoke.
The track shows leading lady Priyanka puffing a 'chillum' (pipe) while she sings "Dum Maro, yeh hai Sahara". Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
And within the field, status comes from puffing up racial bragging points.
He was wearing a deer stalker's outfit, puffing on a pipe and wearing a monocle, or would have been wearing a monocle if it weren't swinging in the air beneath him.
Casey ran around the small oval, puffing and panting, limping on her left foot, the blister throbbing excruciatingly.
The resulting amalgamation of sleek new blocks and bustling malls is worlds away from the conventional image of porticoes, pediments and municipal chest puffing.
My father propagated native plants in 1946 and 47, puffing seeds in the oven and pouring boiling water over them, then he'd surreptitiously go back and plant these plants as a means of reafforesting the hillside.
He'd sit there and stare into space, puffing at his cigarette.
In Victoria Square, under a clear blue sky with the frost just off the grass and a crowd puffing little balls of steam into the air, a mass of bands waited for the off.
By the end of the evening she was puffing her cigarette and blowing the smoke at Miss Poole in the darkness.

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