We were beginning to feel anxious and hungry, and the tempting whiffs from the large iron pot, where the men were stirring their stew, stung our nostrils in a tantalizing fashion.
Receiving it, he filled the cup with tobacco, and having taken a few whiffs himself, presented it to one after another of the whole band.
First, having taken a few whiffsfrom the pipe, he presented it to them to smoke.
Little thin whiffs of breezes, very slight and searching, flit across, and shiver as they pass from Apennine to plain.
The buildings about were crumbling and neglected, and the smell of the pungent messes the Indians put into their tortillas was mingled with faint whiffs of incense.
Continual whiffs of perfume came from the garden, and the air was now damp with threatening rain or indescribably brilliant as the clouds passed.
While we were seated together outside the tent enjoying a fewwhiffs of our pipes and cigars, after a famous dinner of smoking-hot steaks and frijoles, we saw the camp below was all in commotion.
I took a few whiffs with the rest, and then we learnt from our visiters that they were anxious to engage in a trade.
My dear Petrovitch," he was saying between whiffs of his cigarette, "It is indeed reassuring what you tell me regarding the settled state of the country.
But you said there were stories concerning the house," Lyle remarked, between the whiffs of his cigarette.
He had lighted his pipe, and was smoking placidly, taking long whiffs between his words.
The fewwhiffs of opium which, despite of myself, I had inhaled, had their effect, and produced a series of those magical dreams with which the drug tempts and deceives the novice.
Very few whiffs can be taken from a single pipe, but one is enough to have an effect on a beginner, as I have already described in my own case, but an old hand, like the Ty Kong, can smoke for hours.
He sat in his woollen shirt-sleeves, for the day was hot, and slowly unfolded to me his story between meditative and deliberate whiffs of his pipe.
More often I would sit at his feet, and he, between whiffs at his pipe, would discourse to me of the differences between his Old World and this new one, into which I providentially had been born.
It was grumbled out in short spasmodic sentences between the slow whiffs of his pipe, as he sat by the fire in a little parlour off the hall, with his indefatigable daughter at work at a table near him.
When he had lighted the pipe, and smoked about half-a-dozen whiffs with a great assumption of coolness, he addressed himself to his daughter in an altered and conciliating tone.
The strange animal scent came in whiffs of redoubled intensity through the lines of banging doors.
For those people, prisoners throughout the week, the crowded lines of the almanac open at equal intervals in luminous spaces, in refreshingwhiffs of air.
His moustache pricked me, and whiffs of the scent with which he perfumed it reached me and completed my trouble.
The moon had just risen, the sky was beautifully clear, whiffs of delicious perfumes assailed my nostrils.
The magnificent young warrior took three whiffs at the pipe of peace, and passed it to Brown Bear, who, after doing the same, handed it in his turn to The Bat.
Then he took three whiffs and gravely and silently passed the pipe to the chief of the Shawnee belt bearers, Big Fox.
For the first time in many years in England--such were the whiffs of liberty across the Channel--the power of an unrepresented public came to be known.
But if your appetite is one to peck and mince, the whiffs that breathe upon the place come unwelcome to your nostrils.
Then conversation about horses ended in a political discussion, in which Anna Maria took part with a certain degree of liveliness, and Klaus joined warmly, drawing strong whiffs from his pipe.
So did I,' he rejoined laconically, drawing the first whiffs from his pipe.
We sat in the front row, and at the left end of the row, because we wished to leave the theatre between each act to enjoy a few whiffs of tobacco.
Whiffs from decaying potatoes pursued me on the poop, they mingled with my thoughts, with my food, poisoned my very dreams.
Only whiffs of heavy scent passed like wandering, fragrant souls of that departed multitude of blossoms.
Andy Miller, the new hand, stopped to draw several deep whiffs from his newly lighted pipe before he replied.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whiffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
