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"Puffing" Quotes from Famous Books

... about that," said Maurice, puffing into Johann's face. "When cabinet ministers play spy, small fry like you will not cavil at the occupation. And you are not in their pay?" Johann glared. "I want to know," Maurice went on, "what you know; what you know of Colonel Beauvais, ...

— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath

... them were seated the musicians. The medicine chief took up his position in the center of the circle, near a small fire, with his big pipe in his hands. Gravely filling it with k'neck k'nick, he lighted it at the flame, and began puffing great clouds in the faces of the aspirants, that the Great Spirit might give them strength to bear their tortures manfully. Directly under the aperture in the roof of the lodge was a curious arrangement ...

— Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches - An Autobiography • Edwin Eastman

... host; "'cause they've got the same extinguisher on; and ain't it curious to see 'em puffing and blowing at the old lamp? I get 'most tired of talking common sense and common feeling to the Deacon. You can't get it into him, and it won't stay on him. You might as well try to heap a peck ...

— A Romance of the Republic • Lydia Maria Francis Child

... door was closed, and there was no one in the room but the hairy eggplant shape of the Aurigean, still puffing ...

— The Worshippers • Damon Francis Knight

... replied, puffing luxuriously upon his pipe; "I've changed my mind. All I wanted was new scenes and occupations. I've decided to stay on awhile. But I've been thinking, Jude, you don't want to take Joyce into your shack. Let's build her another up on the sunny slope beyond the Long Meadow on the Hillcrest ...

— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock

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