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The Austrians, indeed, having captured Schweidnitz and Breslau, defeated Bevern, and in the space of three weeks made themselves masters of a considerable portion of Silesia, were in no small degree puffed up, and had fallen anew to despising Frederick.
"My friend," rejoined Enriquez, perching himself on the back of the sofa, and caressing his knees as he puffed his cigarette meditatively, "you have ask a conundrum. Gif to me an easier one! It is of truth that I make much of these thing to please Urania. But I shall confess all. Behold, I appear to you, my leetle brother, in my camisa my shirt! I blow on myself; I gif myself away."
"Same here," but Miller selected the most comfortable chair in the room and puffed slowly at his cigar, while never taking his eyes from his host. Neither man spoke for fully five minutes, then Whitney pulled up a chair and sat down near his companion. "Have you seen Senator Foster today?" he inquired. "Not to talk to; but I caught a glimpse of him coming here as I entered."
She did not do much else; she was not without a just pride in it, but she was not puffed up by all the sympathy and consolation that had been offered her. She thought of others in the midst of her own troubles, and she said to Lemuel, who had remained working with Jerry under her direction in putting together such things as she felt she must take away with her
Hence it is in literature, that quackery is most easily puffed, and excellence most easily decried. In some degree this argument applies to academies of the fine arts; and it is fully confirmed by all that I have ever heard of that institution which annually disfigures the walls of Somerset House with an acre of spoiled canvas. But a literary tribunal is incomparably more dangerous.
He saw the look of beneficent happiness on the Old Gentleman's face a happier look than even the fuchsias and the ornithoptera amphrisius had ever brought to it and he had not the heart to see it wane. In an hour Stuffy leaned back with a battle won. "Thankee kindly, sir," he puffed like a leaky steam pipe; "thankee kindly for a hearty meal."
"Major," she said, "I think I'd like that cigarette now." He came over and lit one for her. Trigger thanked him and puffed. And she'd almost spilled everything, she was thinking. The paid-up reservation. Every last thing. "I'd like to get it straight," she said. "What you're talking about sounds like it's a mind-search job, Holati." "It's in that class," he said.
"I reckon I'll have to do some washin' myself, though, before I feel satisfied there ain't." "Then you haven't panned out anything yet?" Phoebe caught him up. Stanley's eyes flickered a questioning glance at Baumberger, and Baumberger puffed out his chest and said: "The law won't permit you to despoil this man's property without good reason. We can serve an injunction "
That downtrodden, servile Jonah, from whom he exacted prompt obedience to every passing whim, should be thus translated and so puffed up with audacity as to chase him was proof of the presence of incredible mischief from which the most valorous might with discretion retire; and without pause he galloped free and wild as the blast of a tempest round the paddock time and again, keeping the greatest possible space between himself and the pursuing apparition.
What's brought you over here? I suppose it's about Fred." "Poor Fred!" The girl looked downcast for a moment, then she tossed her head, puffed out some smoke, and exclaimed energetically, "But he's not guilty, Kincher, and we'll get him off, won't we?" "Not merely by saying so," replied Kemp. "But you'd better tell me how it came about that he was arrested for the murder.
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