put up a bluff

Example Sentences

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You can’t put up a bluff on that kind of man.

From The Gold Trail by Bindloss, Harold

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

From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean

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

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

I'm going to put up a bluff, believing that in her panic she will lead me into the lion's den with the idea of van Heerden making one mouthful of me.

From The Green Rust by Wallace, Edgar