The Chef de Gare, who had never in his long and honourable career had such a mob to lord it over, was so puffed up that he could not get down near enough to earth to hear our questions, so we decided to proceed to Alost and try our luck there.
He held his hat in his hand andpuffed at a cigarette like a mechanical toy, blowing out jerky clouds of smoke.
Joey closed one eye and puffed thrice at his pipe.
She was gazing fixedly at the nonchalant outsider who leaned back in the only rocking-chair and puffed at his pipe.
And with it all he can see a joke as soon as anybody, and isn't a bit puffed up.
The girls can wear the bloomers of their gymnasium suits fastened with a ribbon-garter, so as to make the puffed seventeenth century garb.
The coat of tattered, weather-stained brown velvet, the puffed sleeves slashed with tan satin that is soiled and frayed.
Chavela's broad chocolate face looked troubled; her big steady hands seemed to lift on strings as she brought the ember to the tip of her cigarette and puffed violently, close to Fernando's bed.
Once on the main trail, they quickened their pace and then--like a great swab--mist puffed over them and swallowed trees and boulders.
He puffed out a candle and watched her bend over another atop the armoire.
He complacently puffed a short clay nose-warmer, with his hands in his pockets, and taking first one side and then the other of the road, as his fancy dictated, found himself near the old distillery at the outskirts of the city.
All these thoughts passed through his mind, as he leaned back in a comfortable chair and puffed his Havana.
I didn't say anything to Roberts about it, because I don't want the lads to hear and get puffed up by pride.
So evening fell and found me hopeful and even puffed up; but yet, no sail.
Santos advanced leisurely, and puffed his cigarette over the poor wasted and exhausted frame.
The pipe gurgled as he puffed at it--a kind of death-rattle speaking of almost immediate extinction.
He puffed and he blew, bulging his cheeks out at the sky as he tugged at the oars, making a hundred and one grimaces--all the outcome of agony of mind, but none expressing it.
Imitative imp that I was, I sometimes took part in these strange conversations, and was mightily puffed up by compliments paid, in whispers, to my infant piety.
This was certainly required, for I was puffed out with a sense of my own holiness.
The workman puffed rapidly at his pipe, his face assuming a look of dislike, and at last he ejaculated, "Ho!
Billy's head was swathed in a huge, white cloth; his usually lean little cheeks were puffed out till he resembled a young hippopotamus, and his pretty grey eyes were almost invisible.
Antip puffed out his cheeks, the fire roared and hissed, and the glow was reflected in the samovar.
Trying to seem grave and sedate he pursed up his face and puffed out his cheeks, and he smelt of spirits.
Savely angrily puffed all the air out of his chest and turned abruptly to the wall.
Puffed up by my success, I now strove for higher things, and awaited, somewhat impatiently, an appointment to a great and respectable office.
Jake puffed at his pipe for a few seconds as if considering his reply.
Jake, his clay pipe between his teeth, puffed forth a cloud of smoke, and turned.
Then while she still watched him, he puffed a great cloud of smoke into the air, straightened himself, and made her an odd, clumsy bow.
Jake puffed at his pipe with immense deliberation, and in a moment the burning match sped past her into the flames.
He took his pipe from between his teeth and puffed a broken cloud of smoke out into the swift windy air, looking gloomily after the boat.
Dred looked keenly at him for a moment or two; then he took the pipe out of his mouth and puffed out a cloud of smoke.
There was lilac in bloom and red hawthorn, and a pile of tin trunks, and when the train had puffed on, Jenny could hear birdsong everywhere.
The head moved, puffed a stream of air through its nose, made a chewing sound and subsided.
It flew with the wind and not against it, like all the other birds, so that all its feathers were ruffled up and it was puffed out to the size of a hen and looked very angry and impressive.
At the same time they puffed out a vast cloud of tobacco-smoke, which rose to the ceiling of the room and collected there.
Moreover, if by any accident she should one day happen to fall in love, she would take great care that it should not be suspected, because the man she loved would then become so puffed up with conceit there'd be no bearing him!
The launch puffed and chugged its way up the river, running alongside the pretty Severndale dock sharp to the minute of four bells.
Scattergood rubbed his chin andpuffed out his fat cheeks, and smiled with deceiving mildness.
Scattergood placed the tin object to his lips and puffed out his bulging cheeks.
The time came when Ann Eliza had almost made up her mind to speak to the lady with puffed sleeves, who had always looked at her so kindly, and had once ordered a hat of Evelina.
She was not thinking of anything in particular, except perhaps in a hazy way of the lady with the puffed sleeves, who after her long eclipse had reappeared the day before in sleeves of a new cut, and bought some tape and needles.
Perhaps the lady with puffed sleeves would be able to get her a little plain sewing to do; or she might recommend the shop to friends.
He stuffed the large wad of small bills and fractional currency into his overcoat pocket and sitting down on a pile of soap boxes drummed on the lower one with his boot heels and puffed his cigar with evident pleasure.
As he said this, he leaned back in the sleigh and puffed his cigar savagely while Ezekiel was wondering if Huldy was thinking half as much about him as he was about her.
Exhaust pipes on roofs puffed out violent jets of steam; an automatic sawmill added a rhythmic screeching; a button factory shook the ground with the rumbling of its machines.
The other men eyed him with a brooding jealousy as theypuffed on their pipes.
Meanwhile, the steam engine could be heard as it puffed and snorted ceaselessly while cloaked in its white mist.
Anyone else would have died of it; he merely strutted about and puffed out his chest.
