Example Sentences

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“This here business is something that can be settled without any row, Mr. Hammond—if that’s your name,” said the officer, puffingly.

From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.

Himself stooped puffingly to pick up the segregated sack.

From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)

Lance Darby, a fair-haired, rosy-cheeked lad, who was Chet’s particular chum, was ahead and he came, puffingly, to a stop just before Laura.

From The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize by Morrison, Gertrude W.

"It isn't the things that are on your list that astonish me," he remarked puffingly.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell