Little puffs of wind were coming up from the west, dimpling the water, which had been as smooth as oil, and making it all ruffled and pretty.
However, they satisfied their thirst before embarking, and Milly held her breath as she watched the old sail slowly swelling itself out as the puffs of wind caught it.
Instead he lighted a fresh cigarette, took two long puffs from it, and threw it on the floor.
Tanrade was busy between puffs of his pipe in transposing various passages in his latest score.
The last of the faint smoke puffs was just soaring into space, making four still in sight.
It was just at the most alarming of these places that a few puffs of dust and a crack or two of a whip betokened the approach of waggons, and the next moment the foremost of them appeared round a jutting corner of rock.
He draws a rough cherrywood pipe from his pocket, fills and lights it, sending forth vigorous blue puffs which hang upon the drowsy air.
A chill breeze stirs the raw atmosphere, and sweeps before it puffs of misty vapour which have been resting thickly alike upon hill-top and low-lying bottom.
Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing brand.
An odor of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory.
He puffed recuperative puffs for a space, and then he began: "What an angelic ass is this city of New York!
Morton, the imperturbable, lighted a cigarette and puffed bland puffs as though he in no fashion felt himself described.
Old Mike, puffing the puffs of him who is undisturbed.
He pointed to several moving specks of black and puffs of dust in the purple sage.
The horse disappeared in the sage, and then puffs of dust marked his course.
Several little white puffs of smoke appeared sharply against the black background of riders and horses, and shots rang out.
As it increased in strength the lulls shortened in length till there was a strong and steady blow all the time, and violent puffs at intervals, and sudden whirling currents.
Venters saw no puffs or dust, heard no whistling bullets.
At the account of one with flounces on the skirts and lace puffs in the sleeves, the youngest of the women showed a gleam of intelligence.
He caught a whiff of the odor from across the hall--from the fresh-air shaft--and hastily gave several puffs at his cigar to saturate his surroundings with its perfume.
And in the washroom they took a few hasty puffs before sallying forth again.
Warmed by the spring sunshine he sat in the caleche looking at the new grass, the first leaves on the birches, and the first puffs of white spring clouds floating across the clear blue sky.
The enemy's guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker.
He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, and mingling with one another.
These puffs of smoke and (strange to say) the sound of the firing produced the chief beauty of the spectacle.
The wheat harvest was over, and here and there along the horizon I could see black puffs of smoke from the steam thrashing-machines.
Blue puffs of smoke came from the stovepipe that stuck out through the grass and snow, but the wind whisked them roughly away.
Your servant puffs her hair at the sides, and, hang it!
On the feet, shoes of all materials, from cloth and velvet to leather beautifully worked, and of the most absurd length; these also were slashed withpuffs of white stuff.
The French breeches were tight and ruffled in puffs about the thighs.
As Horsfall came abreast of a plantation Parr noticed four men stooping behind a wall, and then saw two puffs of smoke shoot out.
Puffs in which use is made of whole-wheat flour instead of white flour are also an example of a thin batter that is made light by aeration.
She should avoid puffs and any suggestion of the pulpy and clumsy, and be careful not to sub-divide the body of her dress by plaits or braids laid on horizontally across or above the bust, or below the hips.
While a frog is a small creature, yet it puffs itself up until it almost bursts with the effort to be somebody.
The tourist climbing Ætna, or Vesuvius' rugged side, puffs on though they perchance have long since ceased to smoke.
The energetic Yankee bent upon the accomplishment of his ends, puffs vigorously at his cigar and with scarcely a passing notice, strides over obstacles that lie in his path of whatever nature they may be.
The following clever lines from The Tobacco Plant entitled "Puffs from a Pipe," convey much advice to all smokers of tobacco.
Amid all the cares and perplexities incident to life, he puffs away and as the ashes drop from his cigar meditates upon the probable future of tobacco growers and all users of the weed.
Ramon sat his horse, gazing at the little puffsof dust that shot from the hoofs of the big buckskin.
The sand sprayed to little puffs of dust as he swung to a lope.
Then they began to climb the long green slope, and it was very steep, and the hot puffs of wind seemed to rush down it to push them back.
The big puffs of wind grew hotter and fiercer, and the cloud spread until it was blotting out the blue of the skies quite fast.
The wind came in hot puffs and shook the tree tops, and the purplish-black cloud looked more ragged than ever, and was growing bigger and coming nearer.
White puffs of shrapnel from field guns were lathering the place persistently, so that when the German trenches were broken down it was difficult to repair them or move in them.
It was not a really heavy barrage--big black shell-bursts at intervals on the ground, helped by fairly constant white puffs of shrapnel in the air above them.
Lieutenant Colonel Burton led 100 of them towards a knoll from which the puffs came thickest, but he fell wounded, and his men, on whom the enemy instantly concentrated their fire, fell back.
Sharpshooters in the fort replied to their fire, and all day the fort was fringed with light puffs of smoke, whilst the cannon thundered unceasingly.
Presently, seeing a soldier fall at a short distance from him, he ran out and picked up his musket and cartridge box, and began to fire at the bushes where the puffs of smoke showed that men were in hiding.
The wind roared down the chimney and sent fitful puffs of smoke out into the room.
They talked quietly; out on Lashnagar the winds began to howl; in the passages they shrieked and whined, and whistled and groaned in the chimney sending out little puffs of smoke.
She watched a sail-boat, almost as idle as she was herself, lolling across the bay, the faint west wind coming in light puffs that gave it but little impetus.
Said the canoe would shrivel up, like a piece of hide in a fire, if it touched that beach; said they'd turn white and be blown away like puffs of smoke.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
