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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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verb

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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Dictionary Entry

puffing

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.

Origin

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Common Phrases

away puffing. puffingpuffing camepuffing still
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Poetry examples for puffing

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

be greatly improved. How often have I thought of the proposal since

then, and how many thousand bloated and puffing lines have I read, that,

by this process, would have tripped over the tongue excellently.

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