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Example sentences for "puffer"

Lexicographically close words:
puff; puffball; puffballs; puffectly; puffed; puffers; puffery; puffeth; puffickly; puffin
  1. I don't know but I had better reconsider my decision and engage Professor Puffer instead of you.

  2. I never saw Professor Puffer till we went on board the Vesta.

  3. Just as the train was starting, Professor Puffer reached the station, and from the platform espied his ward in the act of leaving him.

  4. Professor Puffer would probably make an effort to get you into his clutches.

  5. As you may infer from my card I am a man of reputation," and Professor Puffer swelled out his chest and assumed a look of dignity.

  6. One thing, however, seemed evident: that it would be wise to part company with Professor Puffer as soon as practicable after he reached Europe.

  7. After a while, however, he reflected that Professor Puffer would not dare to make a second attempt.

  8. Professor Puffer will prove to be a good friend to you after all.

  9. But it appeared that Professor Puffer had nothing for him to do, and had only complained of his absence because he was irritable, and wanted something to find fault with.

  10. Mr. McCracken had told him that Professor Puffer would pay him twenty-five dollars a month, besides his board and traveling expenses, and this he rightly considered as an unusual salary for a boy of his age.

  11. To find Professor Puffer an inebriate was certainly a shock to him.

  12. Quite unprepared for a meeting with his old ward, Professor Puffer entered the room with a jaunty step.

  13. Nelson Sturgis was a tall, athletic man, and Professor Puffer was persuaded that he could carry out his threat if he was so minded.

  14. From the hackman who drove you here," answered Professor Puffer triumphantly.

  15. Scotty found a puffer and waved at him, but the fish paid no attention.

  16. On the surface, the puffer would have gulped air in the same way.

  17. In short, we cannot guess why the Princess Puffer hated Jasper, a paying client of long standing.

  18. We are only certain that Jasper was a bad fellow, and that the Princess Puffer said, "I know him, better than all the Reverend Parsons put together know him.

  19. The next shirt she did as all the others—puffer last, which mussed the ironed part—until some one stopped her work and did a whole shirt for Lucia correct, from beginning to end.

  20. Each girl had a large egg-shaped puffer on her own table as well.

  21. Don't you understand that when you iron a shirt you put the sleeves over the puffer first?

  22. Miss Clara Savage, of the New York Evening Post, was made chairman of the Press Bureau and Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan of Washington, D.

  23. The Spaniards on seeing it work had the good sense and courage to put aside the Watt report and adopt the principle of the small but active high-pressure steam-puffer engine.

  24. About 1814 Captain Trevithick erected a large high-pressure steam-puffer pumping engine at the Herland Mine.

  25. Watt engine; while the high-pressure puffer was no sooner unloaded than it was ready to work.

  26. This high-pressure steam pumping engine in 1802 may be taken as the first pumping engine of the puffer class using such strong steam.

  27. Herland pole puffer steam-engine of 33 inches in diameter would be equal in power to the Watt low-pressure steam vacuum engine, with a 72-inch cylinder.

  28. The trials between the whim-engines having continued a fortnight, showed that the high-pressure steam-puffer had lifted 83 cwt.

  29. Puffer would always come down to us, however tired, and let us stroke him and kiss his glossy head and neck.

  30. One day, no Puffer returned to us; and in despair we gave away all our remaining pigeons.

  31. Here they come," I exclaimed, and presently they were all settling as usual about the house top, Puffer in the midst quite safe.

  32. The length of boil averages about four hours, certainly not less than three should be given, and it is not necessary to give more than five hours in either ordinary kiers, with central puffer pipe, or in injector kiers.

  33. A jet of steam is sent in at the bottom of this pipe, and by its force any liquor at the bottom of the kier is forced up the puffer pipe and distributed in a spray over any goods which may be in the kier.

  34. From the bottom, and placed centrally, rises a pipe, known as the puffer pipe; this terminates at the top in a rose arrangement.

  35. A distinguished military and political character has challenged the inimitable satirist of the vices of the great; and the puffer is glad to learn that the parties have been bound over to keep the peace.

  36. Sometimes it is thought expedient that the puffer should put on a grave face, and utter his panegyric in the form of admonition.

  37. From his trade perhaps he had come to be called Puffer Kimball.

  38. Gilchrist abandoned the Sunday meetings and when Mr. Damon asked him for his reason he said he wouldn't have his religion strained through old Puffer Kimball.

  39. The seven boys were together, for Tommy Puffer had gone home.

  40. And Mrs. Puffer left, and everybody was pleased.

  41. And so poor starving Tommy Puffer had to carry his pudding-bag of a body home again without a chance to give it an extra stuffing.

  42. They were fed with the good things provided for the Sunday-school children, much to the disgust of Tommy Puffer and his mother.

  43. The young woman looked at him curiously and, when he had purchased a pea-puffer as well, she decided that he was a harmless lunatic; but took the precaution of testing the half-crown he tendered by ringing it on the counter.

  44. His method was to dip the end of the pea-puffer into the packet, then insert it in one of the holes and give a sharp puff.

  45. The swelling prelude to 'The Career of Puffer Hopkins' is kindred in assumption and manner with the preface to the 'Comedy,' to which we have already adverted.

  46. We have not the space, had we either the leisure or the inclination, to attempt a notice in detail of 'Puffer Hopkins.

  47. We should like to know whether all who hold our own opinions touching 'Puffer Hopkins' and the other 'writings' of its author are also actuated by 'personal pique.

  48. Puffer Hopkins;' and of being actuated in this by a spirit of malevolence and personal pique.

  49. Was it this which led the kindly 'Boston Post' to pronounce 'Puffer Hopkins' 'about as flat an affair as it ever tried to wade through?

  50. Mr. Puffer makes the statement that three-fourths of all boys are members of gangs.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puffer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adherent; booster; buff; fan; fish; promoter; tout