The master of the ceremonies hastens to put himself in the centre of the lodge, where he re-lights the pipe, and with every whiff of smoke utters a petition to the Great Spirit in behalf of the candidates.
At the last whiff of his pipe his head went into a great cloud, and the whole surface of the rock for several miles was melted and glazed.
Perk afterwards admitted that he had caught a whiff of the penetrating gas despite the covering helmet and close-fitting goggles but thanks to the haste with which Jack carried their ship past, the gas had little or no effect.
Then a whiff of the sea reaches us and the grey waves of the North Sea stretch out before us over the edge of the endless yellow sands, where bronze-faced Turcos are galloping their beautiful horses up and down.
A horrible whiff of burning petroleum and smoke blows in, and a Belgian soldier enters also.
How long since he had got so much as a whiff of untainted air, or a glimpse of wild fields and woods!
Smoke rose from the kitchen chimney, and on the cold air came the whiff of frying bacon.
There was a whiff of scent in their neighbourhood; the great green fronds spreading behind him were rudely stirred.
He took no notes, and might have been discussing the weather, now that the first whiffof wonderment as to Winifred's lack of information about her birth-place had passed.
So there was a passing whiff of misunderstanding between these two, and, like every other trivial phase of a strange record, it was destined to bulk large in the imminent hazards threatening one lone girl.
I just thought I'd see how he acted when he got a whiff of that new bread, and would you believe me, he just leaned so hard on his rope that it snapped where it was fastened around the tree.
Now he was ascending the reef, and the night air blew a whiff of tobacco smoke from his pipe to the nostrils of the crouching scouts.
As he drove, Dennison thought of shaving, recalled the whiff of Yardley soap, the rasp of his razor.
You ought to be turning 'em into music so that the people who've got only bricks and mortar to stare at can get a whiff of them.
There was a faint rustle of feminine garments, a fleeting whiff of violets in the air, and Kitty had taken her departure, followed by her husband.
That and a whiff from the servants' quarters made me feel a bit sick.
Waterworth, for it would be very dangerous for you to get even a whiff of this in your condition.
I have never got a whiff of it since that I don't turn fairly sick.
I got an unmistakablewhiff of it when I was talking with Bessie Willing.
I hate to leave you to the wiles of the menagerie, for if I ain't terrible mistook they're out for your blood, and they think they've got a whiff of it.
I shall see myself setting in that wagon in my new togs waiting for that train to blow--I'll see that sickening sight till I draw my last whiff of air.
This was the first faint whiff of the new order that had come to the nostrils of the dear old lady.
As Edie came close to him, he caught a whiff of her cologne-scented clothes, and his anger rose.
An Official Reception means a scuffle in a hall, a scramble on a staircase and a scamper past a whiff of scent.
There was a scent of roses and mignonette in the air, and now and again at unaccountable intervals a whiff of the new made hay from the paddock.
One man had a child with him, a girl of some six or eight years of age, and when he had prepared his pipe and smoked it he permitted her to take a whiff or two.
Probably the majority of the victims take it up as a temporary relief; many begin in early childhood; the mother will give the baby a whiff to stop its crying.
Sure, it's my heart hungering a bit for the bogland and a whiff of the turf smoke.
Only the Whiff was, somehow, sweet and precious; and he kept the packet in a drawer apart where the fossils and catapult and air-gun ammunition could not interfere with it, hiding the key so that Tim and the servants could not find it.
Its whiff may possibly stimulate him into explanation!
He had expected it that day on the mountains when the wavy feeling and the Whiff had come to him.
Neither Wavy feeling, Eyes, nor Whiff obtruded themselves: they left him alone and waited: he never forgot them, but he did not seek them out.
The tissue-paper gleamed dimly pink; the Whiff came out to meet him.
I know one pair of Eyes already; there's only the Whiffand the other Eyes to come.
There was no trace of the Whiff or of the other pair of Eyes.
The puff of the passing world comes to us, like that of a train in the valley; or even as the whiff of a smoker in the lane comes over our wall with a delicate waft, albeit his tobacco is not first-rate.
The scent, which is delightful to those who catch a mere whiff of it in going by, becomes most cloying and even irksome to those who have it all day in their nostrils.
None of these hit him, to any good purpose, because he is ever so far above them; but even the smell of their powder is nasty, as a whiff across his incense.
In spite of all that we both could do, and of all his long preparations, not a whiff of smoke would go near the trees, but all went up as straight as the trees themselves.
You've surprised my little secret, Father, and I dare say it's no real secret at all, but just a passing whiff of fancy.
The one cogent argument for him is the whiff of grape-shot.
Remember, too, that deer are never so frightened at seeing or hearing you as they are at scenting you, for the merest whiff of man-smell will drive them away.
If the bear happens to be feeding, the hunter may easily approach, provided that the wind is right and he keeps quiet; but if the bear hears the slightest sound or catches a single whiff of scent--away he goes!
Now and then a tantalizing whiff of the roast issued from the open windows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whiff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
