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He foolishly tried to drive home from the pub, thinking he could bluff his way through the police roadblock.

forbid Two men were standing near a bluff which overlooked the bay, and after an instant's delay in deciding that an accident had occurred, they ran over an uneven and undulating pasture for a distance of two hundred and fifty paces to the shore.

Our home is now in sight, perched upon the summit of a bluff opposite.

, a bluff gentleman, who told his patients that they were not half as ill as they thought, and must pull themselves together-a prescription which, if there was nothing the matter, answered admirably.

was bluff and brutal, fashioned himself on the traditions of Abernethy, and ruled his patients by sheer terrorism.

The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and they cheered him lustily.

' This was addressed to a bluff old fellow, in a striped waistcoat, who was standing by the bar.

But, as neither of these criminals answered to the name of Oliver, or knew anything about him, Nancy made straight up to the bluff officer in the striped waistcoat; and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded her own dear brother.

It was in vain that we all three talked to him and endeavoured to persuade him; he listened with that gentleness which went so well with his bluff bearing, but was evidently no more shaken by our representations that his place of confinement was.

George comes bluff and martial through it all, and his pledge to be present at the marriage and give away the bride is received with universal favour.

He stands before me again, his bluff hairy face irradiating with a joyful love and pride, for which I can find no description.

That bluff fellow!

I saw her innocently kiss her chosen husband on the cheek, and creep close to his bluff form as if it were her best support.

He didn't even bluff interruption in all his bantering with Al Hunt on the week's edition of Capital Gang .

Let's call Paxon's bluff and see if he stays close to home to nurture Suby or takes another demanding job.

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