The Honourable Mr. Peter Puffwas in the Chair; another Honourable undertook the Vice; and a Bishop said grace before meat.
All charged in the East," responds an indiscreet Freemason, and then there is a shifting and shuffling, until the Honourable Mr. Peter Puff rises.
Mowgli watched him puff and blow with eyes that never changed.
Then she laid both mirror and powder-puff back in their places.
The Princess gazed at herself in the mirror, and reaching out again took a small powder-puff from its case and gently dabbed her face.
Indeed, he often got no fresh air except what was blown to him, and only a puff now and then.
The latter was now hove-to, under full sail, an occasional puff of smoke alone betraying the presence of the demon of destruction within.
At this point a prolonged puff in the shadow reminded them of Signor Giacomo's presence; he was leaning against the wall in one corner not daring to move, because it was so dark.
Pasotti at last, with Don Giuseppe, who at once began to puff out his: "Oh, good Lord!
The Baron shrugged his big round shoulders, and drew a final pufffrom his cigar before throwing the end away.
How the invisible silk bellows would puff as she ran up and down stairs, searching the house for Sabina!
A hoarse shout was heard from outside, and when a puff of wind had blown the smoke aside those who held the place looked upon a scene which would have awed the boldest.
Then a dull red flash spurted from her side, a puff of smoke belched into the night, and a ball, directed by no unskilled hand, hurtled across the water and hulled the little craft which was standing out of the bay.
It was delightful to inhale the fragrance, as the whirling aerial current brought us an occasional puff from the land.
Eastward, the sky was covered with pale cobalt; and in the midst of the far-spreading blue hung a white and crimson cloud, like a puff of bright-stained vapour blown up above the rim of the world.
He had felt about his head the short breath of a puff of wind that passed him, made every leaf of the big tree shiver--and died out in a hardly perceptible tremor of branches and twigs.
Over their heads the damp sails fluttered noisily in the first faint puff of the breeze; then, as the airs freshened, the brig tended to the wind, and the silenced canvas lay quietly aback.
Potato Puff The above mixture may have the whites of the eggs beaten and stirred in, and baked in the oven; serve in the same dish in which it was baked.
A flash and a puff of smoke was seen, and soon afterwards a low thundering noise boomed along the waters.
As he spoke, a puff of smoke was seen to proceed from the bows of the English ship, and the sound of the gun struck faintly on their ears.
The sound and the smoke-puff told Gringo where the man lay hid.
She sprang to her feet and made for the place where the puff of smoke arose.
Still prouder was I when we saluted the Queen, who was at Osborne--firing away first on one side and then on the other, with a flash and a roar, and a huge puff of smoke.
Once in a while a fresher puff of wind, or a change in the position of the ships, would give the jackies a glimpse of their enemy, and show fierce faces glaring from the open ports, as the great guns were drawn in for loading.
A regular running musketry fusilade of eager interest, enthusiasm, emulation, now went flashing from breast to breast, fanned by every puff of powder which rose in smoke as a rifle went off.
You may fan those miserable sweepings with a peacock's feather, or a holy-water asperger, or you may puff them away with a pair of bellows, but I and my poor book must suffer and pay the piper all the same.
There was a puff of white smoke from her side, and a shot flew screaming over their heads and plunged into the water just in front of the pursuing felucca.
A puff of fresh air now blew the smoke aside for a moment, and Harry saw what was the cause of his stoppage.
She now planned to fluff the edredon to a puff again, after Father had gone back.
Veron, the inventor of the modern newspaper puff -- Some specimens of advertisements in their infancy -- Dr.
Veron was really the inventor of the newspaper puff direct and indirect--of that personal journalism which records the slightest deed or gesture of the popular theatrical manager, and which at the present day is carried to excess.
He felt that he was conferring a favour, just as he would have felt in offering the advantage of a cleverly written puff of a premiere to a theatrical manager.
He saw the enemy in changing groups of scowling men, who seemed to eye him for an instant down the length of a gun-barrel and then disappear behind a puff of smoke.
The first bullet raised a puff of dust a little to the left of the Indians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
