put up a bluff

Example Sentences

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And you inconsequently decided to put up a bluff of this kind on the British nation because Esmond might involve in difficulties a girl with whom you are not in love.

From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold

Things and people had made her put up a bluff of being hardened, but there had come, as you know, the newly awakened desire to ‘live straight—like folks who didn’t get 273 caught.’

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Lyford, Philip

Of course she may know something, but I fancy it's what you say; that Merriman is getting her to put up a bluff.

From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Crofts, Freeman Wills

Them guys ain't good fur nuthin but to wear tin stars and put up a bluff.

From Bert Wilson in the Rockies by Duffield, J. W.

"No, I don't know a thing about it, I'll have to put up a bluff!"

From The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure by Edholm, Lizette M.