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    1. The blonde snapped her fingers again and the cage disappeared in a puff of magician's smoke, allowing the two lovers to embrace for the very first time


    2. He clearly finds the concept of what he calls a big white powder puff of a wedding dress appalling but, until he knows how I feel about it, is trying to suppress his feelings


    3. a puff on his inhaler, took a long gulp of his life restoring tea and


    4. in a puff of smoke


    5. fingers again and the cage disappeared in a puff of magician's


    6. He needed to sit down and have a puff of life’s essential element


    7. I don’t know how long I stared out at a puff of cloud low in the sky


    8. puff of air, as if from the mouth of an exhausted horse


    9. Decide whether you are committed to this relationship or whether you first want to bed a few more of the willing young sluts out there!” With those words she jumped up and stomped out in a huff and a puff, a whiff of her sweet perfume teasing his nostrils


    10. In suggesting such, I by no means have in mind the puff piece of John Kennedy"s time in office, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr: the egregious „One Thousand Days

    11. I let out a puff of air and started walking again


    12. In a quick grab, she snatched it from his fingers and took a tiny puff into her mouth


    13. I let out a puff of air, setting the phone back in its spot and grabbing the graduation photo that sat beside it, with my Gramma hugging my shoulders as I held up my high school diploma in victory


    14. Stanley took another puff on his cigarette, unaware of the small mound rising out of the ground about eight metres behind him


    15. They were; with a puff of air between pursed lips, he blew away the worry


    16. As they crossed a clearing in the wide expanse the music started up with a bang and a puff of smoke


    17. Stan would puff away on his pipe, occasionally pausing to suck in an extra boost, while his dad lit up a John Player


    18. Bear lighted a smoke, took one puff, and flicked it back as he rode off


    19. One of them was idling, with a puff of water vapour and black smoke coming out of the back end intermittently


    20. Bear grabbed the joint from Brownie's hand, stuck it between his lips and lit it, taking a deep puff before handing it around

    21. It has a kernel of reality almost completely hidden by the unnatural puff of mythological imagery


    22. She took another puff of the cigarette and threw the rest


    23. They know the Attorney General who has to defend the proposition, has a limp wrist and wa-la, they obtain a judgment that the proposition is puff and smoke


    24. I hear my father huff and puff over the sound of rushing water


    25. ~ en holjadre salmon baked in puff pastry, then cut into sections


    26. He answered the call fairly quickly and appeared in a purple puff of smoke


    27. it was, after a quick puff he began his careful approach, “Do you


    28. ” he crudely remarked as he took a large puff on his Marlboro


    29. Vic smiled, having gotten what he wanted, blew a large puff in the direction of Jack who coughed in the cloud


    30. ” Revorg cleared his throat and a puff of smoke

    31. puff of smoke and a heap of ashes


    32. His breath by my lips causes me to let out a quiet puff


    33. He took another puff on his cigarette, thought about


    34. It looked as if a simple puff of wind would


    35. recorders would always go up in a puff


    36. that morning puff out of her, and she went slowly back


    37. Rubbing the back of his neck he let out a puff of air


    38. ” He gave a puff of a laugh, “As hard as it all may seem to put your trust in someone who you cannot see, I know that it’s all real


    39. The energies involved make everything we have ever achieved in spell casting or engineering seem as a puff of breath compared to a typhoon


    40. " Bannister exhaled a strong puff of smoke, looking squarely at Russell

    41. As they rode back, a small puff of air stirred around them with the promise of more to come from a low-lying cloud that continued its slow rise up from the distant southern horizon


    42. The concussions caused dust to puff from joints in the wooden walls


    43. As they rode back, a small puff of air stirred around them with the promise of more to come


    44. The small puff turned into a slow steady breeze that brought the heat of the south across their


    45. puff of cigar in Batistuta's face


    46. puff out dust and debris


    47. Yep, and the first thought that hit my mind when I inhaled my first puff was "That's why I used to smoke weed!”


    48. Yep, and the first thought that hit my mind when I inhaled my first puff was


    49. Whether it’s omniscient, omnipresent and all those other ‘Oms’, we don’t know, since we don’t know exactly who was elected (a puff of white smoke from behind closed doors)


    50. Finally, after taking a big puff of his cigarette and blowing the










































    1. The Marchese leaned back and puffed on his cigar


    2. A haughty spirit has caused some Christians to be puffed up and high-minded wanting to


    3. letter to the church at Corinth, Paul said that love is never puffed up


    4. “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up” (1 Corinthians 13:4) NKJV


    5. bowl of puffed rice in the courtyards was a common


    6. "They never give up," she puffed on


    7. On a branch, puffed up against the cold,


    8. except that he puffed and he blew and he managed, with the help of the Speaker, to finish his speech


    9. “Whew,” Heymon puffed his cheeks


    10. except that he puffed and he blew and he managed, with

    11. Red puffed up his feathers; and what of your quarry?


    12. Ged puffed on his pipe for a


    13. Ged puffed on his pipe again, reflectively, and continued


    14. Guskat puffed out his chest and smiled rather


    15. He watches as the bouncer walks towards him, chest puffed out, waddling in the way that only steroidal, over-muscled bruisers can


    16. Allcock pulled out the Meerschaum, lit it and puffed lazily


    17. Johnson puffed several times, a thick cloud of smoke billowing around his face;


    18. " he looked up at her, his eyes red and puffed, "I haven't even gotten a picture, in two years


    19. I puffed out my chest and announced – as pompously as I


    20. Alec puffed out his chest, and attempted to speak in an authoritative voice

    21. Hogan strode out towards the back of the monastery walls and Conradie puffed along next to him, his fat wobbling and rolling as he struggled to keep up with the tall, long legged marine


    22. The slack sails puffed a bit, but still Stenarch gained on her


    23. Deni pushed her braids to her back and puffed her chest out a little further


    24. made it to the door - puffed and out of


    25. Victoria puffed a breath of air out between her teeth as she stood back, watching Sebastian, her arms tucked over her chest


    26. He studied his puffed eyes in the mirror


    27. CSM Domby came along he lit his pipe and puffed on it quite contentedly nothing seemed to bother him and he just took everything in his stride


    28. He was, definitely, the fastest chicken alive, with his giant dagger feet, puffed out chest and tornado wings; he was pure horror


    29. ” Books tossed Amaranthe a bar of soap, then puffed a rubber ball attached to an empty glass bottle


    30. rise, but puffed out into the room, and Mrs

    31. He puffed away in quiet contemplation


    32. Five minutes later found me standing on the roof, flushing water down the chimney as fast as I could, dodging the steam, soot and odd curses that puffed up out of the chimney-pot


    33. He huffed and puffed his way up another steep incline, maybe twenty metres up


    34. “That seems clear then,” a little bird-like man offered, and puffed contemplatively on a battered old briar pipe


    35. She has brown eyes, and her hair was puffed up, and combed out, not overly formal, or tied up in knots or a bun or anything like that


    36. “Sir?” he puffed to a halt in front of me


    37. An oversized crow landed in the clearing and puffed out its chest


    38. Giselle puffed out her feathered chest, and flexed her wings


    39. Vanil rolled her eyes and puffed in a know-it-all attitude


    40. ‘I’m out of condition,’ he puffed, ‘I’m finding this unusually hard

    41. of the puffed millet


    42. Then I sort of pushed on the sides of the wrapper so it puffed up with the foil giving it the appearance of a wrapper with a full chocolate bar inside


    43. Bruce looked over at her, raised his brow and puffed out his chin


    44. This was a full skirt down to the feet, cinched at the tiny waist; fitted bodice with high neck (one could visualise a cameo at the throat); long tight sleeves to the wrists and puffed shoulders


    45. away bashfully, looking out across the wastes almost nostalgically, and as the gale puffed and whipped around his loose brown rag-tunic, Dacian could see the T on


    46. “Finally, that's the end of it,” puffed an exasperated Akito


    47. That is preposterous,” Chofsky said with his chest puffed out and his thumbs looped under his lapels


    48. They puffed out a bit when I told them that


    49. nor puffed up with uncertain hopes, lifting up your hand against the servants of God; 35 For you have not yet escaped the judgment


    50. priesthood to sale every year: 4 Not at all considering the power of God but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his













































    1. The man in black paused for a second, and then stood up again, puffing out his


    2. She rushed up to the cave and burst in huffing and puffing


    3. After some serious puffing and panting, we eventually arranged them around a bench in the departure lounge where she settled like an old mother hen on her eggs


    4. On the track outside, one of them paced up and down, puffing at his cigarette while watching his colleague talking into his mobile


    5. Thirty minutes later Brent was huffing and puffing and not making much progress


    6. He was puffing by the time he got there


    7. Alcock was simply watching impassively the scene before them, puffing his pipe and keeping an eye on the conductor as he monitored the ingress and egress of passengers and luggage on and off his train


    8. He was puffing half a flight into it


    9. What matter were those figments of some computer’s imagination, puffing about their silly tribal pecking orders when he was standing on a world which had outgrown such savagery thousands of years in the past?


    10. puffing out my chest and throwing a look of triumph at

    11. About the last to condense out was the water vapor, and there was plenty of that, so the chimneys had big balloon condensers at the peak looking like a child's drawing of the smoke puffing off the volcano


    12. Does all that moment-by-moment lung action result in mostly huffing and puffing that wears you down, or is it more of a nice-n-easy, in-and-out flow that pumps you up?


    13. whooshing sound, puffing out her cheeks so Eury would understand


    14. He picked up another stone, then let both fall, dust puffing the sand where they landed


    15. puffing circle smokes with his cigar


    16. “Have you got a thing about him?” Fergus asked, puffing out his first exhalation of fag smoke


    17. To keep with the fire-related analogy, the huffing and puffing started in earnest almost as soon as the Presbytery of Aberdeen first sustained the call to Queen’s Cross


    18. expressions and gestures, such as shrugging her shoulders with her arms extended out and the palms of her hands upwards, blowing or puffing out her cheeks to express


    19. A fox was barking across the pond; an engine was puffing down at the Glen station; a blue-jay was screaming madly in the maple grove; there was laughter over on the manse lawn


    20. The philosophers of collective repression, comfortable and tenured, puffing on their pied pipes of illusion, may never intend to go out and do anything themselves to effect their barbaric theories

    21. I pause to breathe, and it only takes me a second to realize the cold air, icy air puffing out of me, and another to know death is here


    22. chest and belly were puffing in and out, up and down, and I


    23. “When is going to have to fight me for her” Paul said revising his chin and puffing out his chest


    24. Then puffing himself up to the highest stature that he could manage, he stormed, “Does Pharaoh send you to challenge my authority? To countermand my orders?” His face was suddenly livid with the anger that his voice projected


    25. Then puffing himself up to the highest stature that he could manage, he


    26. and puffing could have been from the exertion , or his excitement


    27. George could see the old man clearly, puffing away slowly on his pipe, with one


    28. Thulsa reddened with anger, his cheeks puffing out


    29. His younger brother was already running back up the hill, puffing and panting as he wondered why it had to be him who had to replenish the spent arrows


    30. still huffing and puffing and the staff was fussing around my expensive private room while

    31. puffing and dilating, but as I watched the minute hand tick closer and closer to the big 12 I


    32. When the smoke cleared, there puffing on his cigar, was the head of Big Whig


    33. he only squeezed tighter, his nauseous alcohol breath puffing in her


    34. I could feel it; I could listen to it, I felt the weight of his treads after mine, felt the weight of his agitated breath puffing behind my back


    35. The SG sits on the couch and awes the college kids with what he knows about marijuana and hints that it will soon be legal, while puffing on a fat blunt


    36. It was much easier without Violet puffing along constantly complaining


    37. 8x107 mouths are busy puffing on glow wands and guzzling can after can of golden stupi-fuel


    38. Charlie was puffing irritably on a cigarette


    39. The process of puffing the rice subjects


    40. The bullet made a soft puffing noise inside my hip

    41. He remained intent on drinking his inexhaustible rum, puffing at the meerschaum and watching the gillnetter ahead


    42. He was puffing and chewing in turns on a short fat cigar


    43. now stood, puffing his pipe, watching the unconscious body in the


    44. Father bought it down the coast when the war started and it was five or six years old then," she said, puffing heavily


    45. He was puffing and chewing by turns on a long, fat cigar, occasionally


    46. The four shuttle pilots heard him huffing and puffing as he awkwardly passed through the air lock and entered Myra’s cabin


    47. “Well,” said Roland, puffing out his etheric chest, “I


    48. But by the time I came puffing and grunting


    49. He was puffing and chewing in turns on a short


    50. her shoulders and slightly puffing her generous lips into a














































    1. He’d bitch about his feet the whole time but then she’d talk bollocks about how they were going to live in a hot air balloon, raining cream puffs on the general population


    2. She smiles at him, puffs her cigarette


    3. (puffs out his chest)


    4. Dave puffs out his cheeks and looks across at Carol, who is studying the attractions stacked in a wooden leaflet holder; World of Barometers, Cobbler Honey Farm, Tractorland, Gnome From Gnome


    5. in his head came out only in puffs of gibberish


    6. That halloween lantern of a sun hung high above it and puffs of purple cloud leaked in around the edge


    7. ‘One or two puffs is about my limit


    8. He puffs up his chest, flexes his biceps


    9. His hopes that the man would leave upon getting his smoke vanished, as he kept standing there next to him, blowing puffs of smoke into the air


    10. Fires sprang up and died down just as quickly in a random pattern across the campus, puffs of different coloured smoke filled the air

    11. Puffs of steam whispered through the grate—the creature’s breath, visible in the chill air


    12. Slipping an inhaler from her cardigan, she took a couple of puffs


    13. Since he was letting her set the pace, her words came out conversationally rather than in spurts and puffs


    14. She couldn’t even hear him breathing, and only small puffs of fog appeared in the air before his face


    15. Releasing the smoke in two short puffs, she watched them drift as separate clouds drifting up into the rain


    16. We had to go about half a mile through the expanding puffs of black Archie smoke, over the enemy trenches


    17. And again, this time the Biffs peeled off, a pair of them, and smoke puffs indicated pursuit


    18. But then, the world, including Raul, had presumed Truman to be killed in action; what now, that he was resurrected? Portraying himself as blameless had come easily but, would it remain that way after he located Truman and heard what he had to say? Several more thoughtful puffs soothed him


    19. 5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them


    20. He loved theatrics and proceeded to light it in great puffs of smoke until the end gave a satisfying glow

    21. Is that what you were trying to do yesterday?” He puffs out a sarcastic laugh


    22. He puffs a mocking laugh and starts for the door


    23. He paused, and rose up till his head was fifteen meters above the ground, his stance defiant, his wings slowly waving in agitation, and he gave twin puffs of fire and black smoke from his nostrils


    24. Puffs of air mixed between them, Amori with her slightly heavy breathing and Cody with his even ones


    25. Over four hundred elves had already arrived, and more arrived in the center of the lawn in a steady stream of flashes and puffs of air, then quickly walked to the nearest point on the lawn’s perimeter to clear space for new arrivals


    26. You saw the �23s--they go off never over nine thou with a string of white puffs


    27. He paused, and rose up till his head was forty feet above the ground, his stance defiant, his wings slowly waving in agitation, and he gave twin puffs of fire and black smoke from his nostrils


    28. daily puffs) things go hay wire


    29. A couple of sizable puffs on the cigar seemed to calm the room down just a bit


    30. had filled with several puffs of fresh spring air

    31. Richard puffs on an ebony pipe with gold inlay, its bowl glows with embers as you stand at the threshold to your family property line, the mirror finish of his sunglasses grant you surveillance over your shoulder


    32. There is a dark spot in the sky, not cloud cover, its edges jagged floating past the billowing white puffs drifting by, a cut through to night, the glint of starlight in its sheet semi obscured by the brightness of the day


    33. ” The large bean in the center puffs an after dinner cigar


    34. “One heavily sugared tea and a large bowl of Sugar Puffs, wasn't it?”


    35. As the children ran, each one took off in a different and opposite direction, causing the cloud monster to lose patches of its cloud puffs


    36. The longer the children waited to run and spread the cloud monster thin, the more the cloud monster produced more cloud puffs to replace the chunks that it lost


    37. She flung her arms around him, bursting into scattered puffs of mist


    38. and puffs into their cheeks;


    39. She sits at an infinitely high table, smoking an infinitely long glow-tube, and finishing it in just a few puffs


    40. Directions for Fried Bread Puffs Recipe:

    41. The only things I could move were my head and tail, allowing me to smack a few away yet when I breathed fire, only a few puffs of smoke emerged


    42. She wanted still more chocolate, but settled for a handful of cocoa puffs


    43. a bag of Chocolate Puffs


    44. "Why do you ask about working?" she asked after a few puffs on the cigarette


    45. The rickety vehicle chugged out of the narrow gorge of buildings spewing a few puffs of smoke from the tailpipe


    46. I could see small puffs of smoke as each of the enemy soldiers fi red off a round


    47. Her practiced eyes then saw puffs of smoke rise from multiple points on the ground around the city


    48. The puffs then became trails of smoke climbing fast in the sky, heading towards the four approaching condensation trails


    49. I had, you know, a couple of puffs


    50. that was all, they always give me a couple of puffs, and then everybody in the










































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    Synonyms for "puff"

    blow puff drag pull hassock ottoman pouf pouffe powderpuff comfort comforter quilt puff of air whiff gasp heave pant chuff huff blow up puff out puff up draw puffed gust breath wisp blurb puffing exhale commend admire praise congratulate swell distend enlarge

    "puff" definitions

    a short light gust of air


    a light inflated pastry or puff shell


    exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)


    bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together


    a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin


    thick cushion used as a seat


    a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)


    forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth


    smoke and exhale strongly


    suck in or take (air)


    breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted


    make proud or conceited


    praise extravagantly


    speak in a blustering or scornful manner


    to swell or cause to enlarge


    blow hard and loudly


    gathered for protruding fullness