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"Puffing" Quotes from Famous Books

... you're right," said Eileen Cavendish. She moved idly about the room examining photographs and puffing her cigarette. "But even the War isn't going to make me fall on the neck of a woman I don't like. But I'm talking like a cat. It's not seeing Bill ...

— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

... walked up the lawn puffing at their cigars. The others sat watching, knowing that the opportunity had come for criticism ...

— Vain Fortune • George Moore

... said Pete, puffing meditatively on his black, stunted pipe; "according to my notion it's something ashore. Old Hunch was aboard airly this mornin', and that greaser is a sure sign of trouble. Reminds me of a croaking black raven. I'd like to wring his wry neck for him. He ...

— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt

... thank me! I'd as soon send every one of 'em to jail as not; but I can't stand your puffing and sighing just as if they were all ...

— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale

... curious contrast. Willis, seated on a sort of throne, crowned with a waving plume of feathers, shrouded in a fiery mantle, and surrounded by a crowd of prostrate figures, was quietly puffing ribbons of smoke from the tips of his lips. There he sat, for all the world like a crane in a duck-pond. From time to time the more daring of the worshippers slightly raised their heads to see whether Jupiter was still thundering; but when their eye caught ...

— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien

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