puffily

In a dark corner of the laboratory, over a queer incubating burner, he kept a large covered vat full of this reptilian cell-matter; which multiplied and grew puffily and hideously.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Then she noticed how stout Jack had grown—he would soon be almost as plethoric as Herbert Melson, who sat a few feet off, breathing puffily as he leaned his black-gloved hands on his stick.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

Then she noticed how stout Jack had grown—he would soon be almost as plethoric as Herbert Melson, who sat a few feet off, breathing puffily as he leaned his black-gloved hands on his stick.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

Then she noticed how stout Jack had grown—he would soon be almost as plethoric as Herbert Melson, who sat a few feet off, breathing puffily as he leaned his black-gloved hands on his stick.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

At the top of the long, steep hill they had to climb from the smithy hollow to where the Robertson road joined the Wahine road, they paused for a moment, panting, the five bright heads haloed against a puffily clouded sky.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

Yonder comes an ocean-steamer, long, low, and black, with a tri-color flag at the stern, slowly and puffily tugged by a little pilot-boat.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

Fat women who could speak little or no English were here and there puffily dismantling, exchanging the hotel work-uniform for street garments.

Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

In the far distance the steam organ of the roundabout was playing, sweetly and puffily, "My Lily of Laguna."

Mrs. Miniver 1939

Even her hands showed no clear highlights on fingers and wrists, but hung puffily among the folds of her dress.

Death of a Peer Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1940

Wearing black riding boots, gray breeches, and a gray tunic, with tiny hands and feet, puffily fragile of face and body, with a spitting way of talking through his bad teeth, he looked comic when Robert Jordan first saw him.

For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940