To be puffed by ignorance was not only humiliating, but perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the weather-prophet.
Farebrother puffed a few moments in silence, Lydgate not caring to know more about the Garths.
For surely all must admit that a man may be puffed and belauded, envied, ridiculed, counted upon as a tool and fallen in love with, or at least selected as a future husband, and yet remain virtually unknown—known merely as a cluster of signs for his neighbors' false suppositions.
Pigg, as he puffed himself up, and looked as important as possible.
" He puffed luxuriously at the long Corona he was smoking.
" He got so puffed up with conceit that he made up a song as he walked in praise of himself, and sang it at the top of his voice, though there was no one to hear it but him.
The hot smell from the pine-needles and from the cushions of wild thyme that padded the spaces between the rocks, and sometimes a smell of pure honey from a clump of warm irises up behind them in the sun, puffed across their faces.
But he admired Anne immensely, and was puffed up with pride over the prospect of driving to White Sands with that slim, upright figure beside him.
"You did just splendidly, Anne," puffed Diana, recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak, for Anne, starry eyed and rapt, had not uttered a word.
Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves MATTHEW was having a bad ten minutes of it.
Our new minister's wife was dressed in blue muslin with lovely puffed sleeves and a hat trimmed with roses.
I've been imagining it all out—the wedding and everything—Diana dressed in snowy garments, with a veil, and looking as beautiful and regal as a queen; and me the bridesmaid, with a lovely dress too, and puffed sleeves, but with a breaking heart hid beneath my smiling face.
I can't cook, as you know, Marilla, and—and—I don't mind going to a picnic without puffed sleeves so much, but I'd feel terribly humiliated if I had to go without a basket.
"But I'd be ever so much gratefuller if—if you'd made just one of them with puffed sleeves.
When I am heavy with heartache I shall console myself that this too shall pass; when I am puffed with success I shall warn myself that this too shall pass.
I was filled with a sense of self-importance, puffed up14) with grad-school grants and deluded15) with degrees and accolades16) assigned to my name.
So the old woman panted and puffed breathlessly as she carried the heavy basket all the way.
In a study published in the journal Metabolism, test subjects who consumed rolled oats 45 minutes before exercising had a significant performance advantage over subjects who had puffed rice or water.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG (1688-1772) Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its ovn, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
The health benefit of physical activity outweighs the harm caused by chemicals and dust puffed out by traffic and industry, according to Cambridge academics.
