put up a bluff

Example Sentences

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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

"But before people I've put up a bluff of despising it."

From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean

"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.

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

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.