They gave one scope for bluffing, and although his antagonists declared his luck was good, he knew his nerve was better.

"She was only bluffing me last night," he said.

Plainly he was bluffing, if horses ever bluffed.

She told herself that he was bluffing, that it was simply the outburst of a disappointed man.

He was "bluffing."

You're bluffing.

Happily for me the most startling of his exploits, that of bending a timid War Committee of the Cabinet to his will in the winter of 1915-1916, and of bluffing into utter submission nearly a hundred thousand rampant munition workers who were eager to "down tools," fulfils all the Dawson conditions of importance.

Jude, apparently bluffing shamelessly, bucked him up to fifty dollars, and then he allowed himself to be called with a pair of tens against a full house.

Quit your bluffing, you don't scare me.

Queenie, she said, was only bluffing.

I'm learning 'the game,' so I know you're bluffing me, Peabody.

Every man knew that, despite his gay adornment, he was not bluffing.

" "Maybe he was only bluffing after all.

"I've dealt myself a mighty queer card, but there's no good bluffing in this game.

But Austria had counted on “bluffing” Russia to keep out, as she had been bluffed in 1908, and when she saw that this time the Russians meant business, she became frightened and sent word that she might be willing to settle the question without fighting.

"I'm not trying to clear myself; but between you and me, don't you think that Pete was merely bluffing, there at the end when you came?"

"Look here, that brute's bluffing you," I would protest.

Why do you keep raising me when you know I'm bluffing?

Even as we went to and fro there, the leaders of the south and east were gathering their resolve, and the hot answer that shattered Gresham's bluffing for ever took shape and waited.

I figure Mark is just bluffing.

"Any man caught bluffing loses the pot," added the Eminent Person, gravely admonitory.

Presently, holding aces up, and being persistently crosslifted by the Eminent One and the Judge, after a one-card draw all around, he became obsessed with the fixed idea that they were both bluffing and afraid to show down.

" "Oh, that will be all right," said Edy, bluffing, "I'll make her a dress by to-night."

With a smile he replied: "Far from bluffing, Sleight, I am throwing my cards on the table.

BLUFFING Francis Wilson, the comedian, says that many years ago when he was a member of a company playing "She Stoops to Conquer," a man without any money, wishing to see the show, stepped up to the box-office in a small town and said: "Pass me in, please.