Puff

out of puff

puff of smoke

to every puff of wind a slave

"The wind we had was only an early puff! You'll see we shall have our full allowance!"

When I went to bed that night I found that I could not get to sleep. At five o'clock I got up and took a hot bath. I climbed back into bed and lighted one of the Chinese-made "Great Wall" cigars my hosts had thoughtfully provided, and sat puffing on the cigar and making notes about the events of the momentous week.

[…] though I care not one straw for the personal puffs of which I myself am so often the subject […]

[…] we critics were not his fellow-guests, but simply deadheads whose business it was to "dress the house" and write puffs.

a sleeve with a puff at the shoulder

Bozzacchio, an acorne. Also a puffe or mushrump full of dust.

Is nothing to be said in praise of the "Emporiums" and "Repositories" and "Divans," which formerly were mere insignificant tailors', toymen's, and tobacconists' shops? Is the transition from the barber's pole to the revolving bust of the perruquier, nothing? — the leap from the bare counter-traversed shop to the carpeted and mirrored saloon of trade, nothing? Are they not, one and all, practical puffs, intended to invest commerce with elegance, and to throw a halo round extravagance?

Here the duke is made the vehicle of the tailor's advertisement, and the prelusive compliments, ostensibly meant for his grace, merge into a covert recommendation of the coat. Several specimens might be given of this species of puff, which is to be met with in almost every paper, and is a favourite form with booksellers, professional men, &c.

He was the eighteenth century king of spin, or, in the language of the day, the "prince of puff".

Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?

Still on the down line, the engine puffed away to the South, and in a few moments had disappeared in the darkness!

By and by comes the ass back again, Puffing and Blowing, from the Chase.

Puffing and panting, we plodded on until within about a mile of the harbor we came upon a sight that brought us all up standing.

It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.

'tis easy for a man to have a great opinion of his own knowledge , and be puff'd up by it

Then came brave Glory puffing by.

The clearing north will puff the clouds away.

I puff the prostitute away.

a bladder puffed with air

the sea puffed up with winds

puffed up with military success

puffed with wonderful skill