What is "puffs"

Usage examples of "puffs".

Not surprisingly, the pastry chef had already started in on his daily stock of fruit tarts and millefeuilles, his cream puffs and eclairs, his multi tiered gateaux, and his signature swans of choux pastry.

Wind puffs rattled the cotton-woods, dust swirled hi the road stirring grasshoppers up into their crackling, chili-red flights.

It took her head a few moments to clear, and when it did, she saw puffs of smoke and realized that Mogurn was sitting with his pipe, watching her.

They looked like tiny purplish puffs of steel wool, or glitter, nested at the backs of his eyes.

After a few more puffs and bursts of flame, the rat collapsed upon its back and expired, no doubt a great deal astonished to find itself killed by such a minute opponent.

I am to the age of my parents as they sat on that lawn, laughing and blowing dandelion puffs at me, smoking their shared Pall Mall cigarettes and thinking Mrs.

Lily had known without being told that the heartsick and love worn Ginger required this lace- and chintz-rich, uncommonly easeful room with its skirted dressing table and silly tuft of dressing-table chair tucked into the voluminous skirt, and the rows of pretty silver boxes set across the mirrored top to contain her cotton puffs and her eyebrow pencils and her many, many shades of rouge, which blushed from the least to the deepest of reds.

Someone had charmed a bagful of chocolate-raspberry cream puffs from the palace pastry chef.

For Eliste and Zeralenn, there was a small package of books once left by an indifferent scholar in exchange for cream puffs, and never reclaimed.

The standard fell in the dirt and lay with the steppe wind flapping the bright cloth against the ground and raising tiny puffs of dust as it struck.

The others around him threw themselves to the ground and a ripple of fire ran down their suddenly hidden ranks, only puffs of smoke showing where they were.

He strode directly and pugnaciously at one of the little puffs, and it gave way before him and they were out of the circle.

A juicy dropping struck my shoulder, and I could see a rain of falling particles, a noxious precipitation from the thundering flock overhead, raising tiny puffs of dust from the street as the droppings struck.

Over all the islands the trade wind blew white puffs of cumulus and the surf hammered patiently at the black rocks and white beaches.

Then he saw scattered black puffs of antiaircraft bursts over Pearl and was surprised to find what seemed to be target practice taking place on Sunday morning.