" Mr. Davis took two inches of soiled clay pipe from his pocket and puffed thoughtfully.

"Oh, that!" replied Carnacki, puffing vigorously at his pipe.

He followed Uncle John into the tatter's room and smoked one of the newly-discovered cigars while the elder man lay back in an easy chair and silently puffed his pipe.

Heaven forbid!" He puffed steadily at his pipe, and glanced quickly at De Chauxville through the smoke.

He came back lighting a cigarette and contentedly puffed out a great cloud.

Lovaina appeared, puffing furiously.

Between his teeth was a black brier pipe, which he puffed lazily.

He studied me for a while in silence, leisurely puffing at his pipe.

Mr. Burrell puffed away luxuriously as they walked along, stopping now and then at her command, to look into such shop-windows as contained articles adapted to the use of infants, from india-rubber rings and ivory rattles, to baby coats and shoes.

Therefore let us not feed our fancies with pictures of what the next world will be like,pictures, I say, which are but waking dreams of men, intruding into those things which they have not seen, vainly puffed up in their fleshly mindsthat is in their animal and mortal brain.

Charles I. attempted to banish it, and in return the soldiers of Cromwell puffed their smoke contemptuously in his face, as he sat a prisoner in the guard-chamber.

" shouted the woman, as she ran out of the house, throwing about her long arms, (now freed from slavery's chains,) and making sundry other uncouth manifestations of her joy, so characteristic of her race, which caused a policeman to realize the dignity of his station, by actually opening one eye, and puffing diligently at the cloud of tobacco smoke which encircled the other.

" Again, the man puffed savagely at his pipe before replying.

Carroll had lighted a cigarette and was puffing fiercely upon it.

While the ground jarred with occasional tremors and the mountain puffed forth its vaporous threats, he and the surgeon, seated on a rock, gave themselves with complete absorption to the reading.

The boy was coming toward them, coolly puffing a cigar.

A moment later the train bell began ringing, and the Dixie Flier puffed deliberately out of the Cairo station and moved across the Ohio bridge into the South.

" "Your nephew, Craig, knows about it, does he?" Landor puffed anew with a shade of embarrassment.

"I don't care to," the hero responded to the latter's protests, placidly puffing at his cigarette.

From the room beyond came strange soundsa woman's voice; the thrill of a song; cries; the anguish of tears; laughter, harsh and high, as a desperate and deceived woman laughsall this following in such rapid succession that Sid Hahn, puffing laboriously up the four flights of stairs leading to the wardrobe floor, entered the main room unheard.

"What can he accomplish by merely sitting still?" "A great many things may be accomplished by sitting still," said her father, puffing his cigar reflectively.

"Unless I shall pe able to interes' monsieur" Rushford grunted and stared out of the window at the dunes, puffing his cigar meditatively.

MEPHISTOPHELES Your doting love-sick fool, with ease, Merely his lady-love to please, Sun, moon, and stars in sport would puff away.

He seemed mightily puffed up about something; and, not being one of those who can keep their own counsel long, he soon imparted to Althea and me, whom he found sitting by the parlour fire, how his promotion now seemed very near.

It's enough to drive a man mad!" He got out a cigar, lighted it, and stood puffing it nervously, appalled at the vision his own words had conjured up.