put up a bluff
Example Sentences
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You should have got a smarter man before you ventured to put up a bluff on me.
From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold
As soon as the crowd thinned out, he asked him if he had that locket, and at first Burt put up a bluff.
From Polly of the Hospital Staff by Dowd, Emma C.
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
"But before people I've put up a bluff of despising it."
From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean
