10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUFFILY»
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puffily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
puffily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Louis Untermeyer. Pooh-Bah drew himself up stiflly, but only succeeded in
looking still more like a museum-piece. “Go away, you girls,” he said, more puffily
than ever. “Can't talk to little girls like you. Go away—there's dears.” Even Ko-Ko
had ...
Mike's attentive ear noted that the bright speech was a shade more puffily
delivered this time. He began to feel that this was not such bad fun after all. He
would have liked to be in bed, but, if that was out of the question, this was
certainly the ...
3
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Wearing black ridingboots, gray breeches, and agray tunic, with tiny hands and
feet, puffily fragile offace and body,with a spitting wayof talking through his bad
teeth, he looked comic when Robert Jordan first saw him. But he had more brains
...
4
The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai
In addition to any possible legal ramifications, he also had to consider, as the two
friends said he puffily put it, “my position in the community of scholars.” His career
would be irreparably damaged by even a hint of a scandal involving the theft ...
5
One Damn Thing After Another
Whenever she surveyed her face and body in the privacy of her bathroom, she
approved, grateful that 45 years had not done worse to thicken her midsection
and puffily line her face or bag her under eyes. True, she had vigorously pursued
her ...
6
The Uncommercial Traveller: Easyread Comfort Edition
The fellow-creature wore high boots; some other (and much larger) fellow-
creature's breeches, of a slack-baked doughy colour and a baggy form; a blue
shirt, whereof the skirt, or tail, was puffily tucked into the waist-band of the said
breeches; ...
7
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
He did the rise over by the chalk–pit crest a little puffily—he had long since lost
the Muscular Christian stride of early days; but Caddies was not at his work, and
then, as he skirted the thicket of giant bracken that was beginning to obscure and
...
Herbert George Wells, 1932
8
A Remarkable Case of Burglary
Heavily and puffily. Making a performance of it, a performance designed to cross
the footlights. “So I'll 'ave ter look elsewhere,” he said. “See p'raps about makin' a
nose out of a cove as goes in the 'ouse regular. Get the truth on it out of a gas ...
9
The Life of Napoleon I: Including New Materials from the ...
... He counted on some suchchange inpublic opinion; and it enabled him todefy
with impunitythe beginningsofaParliamentary opposition. TheSenate had been
puffily obsequious, as usual;but theCorps Législatif had mistaken its functions.
10
The Financier: The Critical Edition
The latter he found to be a large, gross-featured, heavy-bodied man of fifty, gray-
eyed, gray-haired, puffily outlined as to countenance, but keen and shrewd, and
with short, fat-fingered hands, which drummed idly on his desk as he talked.
Theodore Dreiser, Roark Mulligan, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUFFILY»
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puffily is used in the context of the following news items.
Can food allergy become a part of our identity?
The night of my girlish dreams ended puffily, with my mother administering emergency antihistamines. The fact that my date had, without telling me, taken a ... «Daily Life, Mar 15»
An Oscar-Fashion Report Card
But her refusal to dress showily is part of her naturalness, which is preferable to the puffily frozen faces of the actresses who have attempted, through surgery, ... «New Yorker, Mar 14»
Harrier by Jonathan Glancey, review
... revolution in Britain that yearns to consume ever more and to make ever less, a nation that reaches puffily for the screen rather than energetically for the sky.”. «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 13»
Water, water everywhere in the BVIs
On the way back, we detoured to nearby Biras Creek, where we watched pelicans scooping up fish and returning to settle puffily into their nests, and giant ... «The Independent, Nov 13»
Nobody's Looking at You
Her outfit on the day of my visit—a short puffily pleated beige cotton skirt worn with a horizontally striped pinkish-beige-and-black jersey top and black ... «New Yorker, Sep 13»
'Unfinished Empire,' by John Darwin
Darwin quotes Prime Minister Harold Wilson asserting puffily in 1965 that “Britain's frontiers are on the Himalayas,” a statement rightly contextualized here as ... «New York Times, Feb 13»
That Week On TV: Danny Baker's Great Album Showdown, BBC4 …
... was one of only two albums ever made where there isn't a duff track; and puffily waved a Bob Seger live album he thought was the best concert LP of all time. «Radio Times, Feb 13»
Restaurant review: Tokyo GoGo
Tempura Vegetables ($6): A smattering of puffily battered vegetables like broccoli, onion and tubers served with grated daikon and a sweet and salty soy dipping ... «Columbus Alive, Jan 13»
Is Popcorn the New Cupcakes?
Emmanuel Eng of Maverick Restaurant experimented with various grains to see which ones would pop as puffily as corn does. Amaranth expanded okay, but ... «Huffington Post, Aug 12»
Mixtape Of The Week: Meek Mill Dreamchasers 2
When he gets contemplative here, he veers toward puffily vague B.O.B.-style inspirational rap a little too far removed from the specific concrete memories of the ... «Stereogum, May 12»
