"Chuff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr. Maynard, "we'll play something less wearing on the intellect. This is called the motor-car game, and you must all sit in a row. Kingdon, you're the chauffeur, and when chauffeur is mentioned, you must make a 'chuff-chuff' sound like starting the machine. Dick, you're the tire, and when tire is said, you must make a fearful report like an explosion of a bursting tire. Dorothy, you're the number, and when number is mentioned, ...
— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells
... vain, What might I crave more, if I ask again? I think the great gods grieved they had bestowed, This[388] benefit: which lewdly[389] I foreslowed.[390] I wished to be received in, in[391] I get me. To kiss, I kiss;[392] to lie with her, she let me. Why was I blest? why made king to refuse[393] it? Chuff-like had I not gold and could not use it? 50 So in a spring thrives he that told so much,[394] And looks upon the fruits he cannot touch. Hath any rose so from a fresh young maid, As she might straight have ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe
... to revenge. sit, to rest on a seat. reek, vapor. duct, a channel. bier, a carriage for the dead. ducked, plunged under. beer, fermented liquor. chuff, a clown. rest, quietness; ease. chough (chuf), a bird. wrest, to turn; to twist. coin, metal stamped. ring, a circle. coigne, a corner. wring, to twist. cole, a kind of cabbage. rote, repetition. coal, carbon. wrote, did write. find, to discover. strait, a narrow channel. fined, ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey |
