Puffed

Examples

• As she entered and closed the door on herself, he sank down in a chair, and gazed and sighed and puffed portentously. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Karkov, a man of middle height with a gray, heavy, sagging face, puffed eye pouches and a pendulous under-lip called to him in a dyspeptic voice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Mr. Farebrother puffed a few moments in silence, Lydgate not caring to know more about the Garths. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And this, said he, dandling my hands up and down in his, as he puffed at his pipe,--and this is the gentleman what I made! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• To be puffed by ignorance was not only humiliating, but perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the weather-prophet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They ain't Pills, or Hair-Washes, or Invigorating Nervous Essences, to be puffed in that way! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• They puffed for a while in silence, Mr Pancks like a steam-vessel with wind, tide, calm water, and all other sea-going conditions in her favour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so unassuming with it that I felt quite grateful to him for not being puffed up. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You know what a puffed-up man he is, and how easily you can cause his vanity to take the alarm. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She puffed on the cigarette and looked at Maria and Robert Jordan. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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