Which preposition to use with puff

of Occurrences 319%

A puff of dust showed to the right.

at Occurrences 68%

"Delirium tremens, you know!" Beaumaroy puffed at his cigar.

with Occurrences 14%

" The tug took us in charge and puffed with us down the harbour and through the Golden Gate.

on Occurrences 13%

And one very lovely afternoon in May, when the Park from his windows looked like a green forest, and puff on puff of perfumed air fluttered the curtains at his opened windows, he picked up his gloves and stick, put on his hat, and went out to walk in the Park; and when he had walked sufficiently he sat down on a bench in a flowery, bushy nook on the edge of a bridle path.

from Occurrences 13%

Then one day, when the man in the moon was puffing from the encounter, the latter said: "'Now by hard knocks and exercise I have put you on the way of ending your troubles.

in Occurrences 11%

I am willing to sacrifice nearly anything for Art, but when it comes to leaving nineteen dollars' worth of puffs in a dressing room where you can't pick your company, not for little Sabrina.

for Occurrences 11%

She pass'd from the east to the west, and paused In New Burlington-street awhile, To inspire a few puffs for Colburn and Co.

like Occurrences 9%

Jack Vance and Diggory, whose powers of wind and limb had benefited by constant exercise in the football field, were soon at the top; but Mugford, who was not inclined to be athletic, and who had already been pretty nearly pumped in hurrying out of the tunnel; was still slowly dragging himself up the ascent, panting and puffing like a steam-engine, when his comrades reached the summit.

into Occurrences 8%

One of the most unfortunate circumstances in the history of such medicines, is the insinuating and dangerous method, by which they are puffed into notice.

to Occurrences 6%

"If you ain't a card!" He had lighted a cigar, and, leaning toward her, blew out a fragrant puff to her.

over Occurrences 4%

May again struck him; but Cissie Dildine was younger, and her polished black hair lay straight on her pretty head, and was done in big, shining puffs over her ears in a way that Ida May's unruly curls would never have permitted.

out Occurrences 3%

And the autumn wind, cold with the week of equinoctial rain, puffing out of thickets and across ravines, brought, every now and then, the horrible odor of death.

under Occurrences 3%

"Butbut did you see his face, boys, after he heaved the stump up? Ijust pick that stump up, will you?" They went to the misshapen, ragged monster and lifted it, puffing under the weight.

about Occurrences 2%

She is awfully active, and puffs about everywhere like a steam-engine.

behind Occurrences 2%

Mrs. Dodd was puffing behind us.

by Occurrences 2%

In the golden sunrise came the faint, far crack of a rifle, and a stricken woman would throw up her hands on the distant edge of the village; in the noonday heat, men in the trenches heard the shrill sing-song and knew their deaths; or in the gray afterglow of evening, the dirt kicked up in puffs by the winking fires.

through Occurrences 2%

Sharley drew her breath when the sudden four-o'clock whistle smote the air, and a faint, far trail of smoke puffed through the woods, and wound over the barren outline.

inside Occurrences 1%

Sometimes, when a battery close by let go, I could watch the thin, shreddy trail of fine smoke that marked the arched flight of a shrapnel bomb, almost from the very mouth of the gun clear to where it burst out into a fluffy white powder puff inside the enemy's position.

between Occurrences 1%

But the fright and the gloom disappeared in one minute and forever when the door burst open, and a red-faced, white-haired old man, utterly out of breath, bounced into the room, and seizing Reuben by the hand gasped out, puffing between the words like a steam-engine: "Wreck me, if this isn't a hard way to make port.

as Occurrences 1%

Then from one end of the long wall to the other white puffs as of some monster breathing spasmodically.

around Occurrences 1%

Jones came puffing around a corner of the cliff, and soon all three of us with the hounds stood out on the rocky shelf with only a narrow space between us and the crouching lion.

off Occurrences 1%

A cloud of feathers puffed off him.

among Occurrences 1%

It sent an advance wrack scudding gracefully across the ocean to puff among the redwoods, capriciously clinging to some, ignoring others.

amain Occurrences 1%

" The dandelion has been nicknamed the peasant's clock, its flowers opening very early in the morning; while its feathery seed-tufts have long been in requisition as a barometer with children: "Dandelion, with globe of down, The schoolboy's clock in every town, Which the truant puffs amain To conjure lost hours back again.

alongside Occurrences 1%

As I picked up my bag to go ashore, a heavy hand fell on my shoulder and I was asked to wait until we were boarded from the police boat which was puffing alongside.

Which preposition to use with  puff