"Huffing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... keeps to his old and wonted method of prefacing; when at the beginning of his book he enters, either with a halter round his neck, submitting himself to his readers' mercy whether he shall be hanged or no, or else, in a huffing manner, he appears with the halter in his hand, and threatens to hang his reader, if he gives him not his good word. This, with the excitement of friends to his undertaking, and some few apologies for the want of time, books, and the like, are the constant and usual shams of all scribblers, ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... he puffed and he huffed, And he puffed and he huffed and he puffed, But with all his huffing, And all his puffing, The ...
— On the Tree Top • Clara Doty Bates |
