v. to walk, climb, run, or drive a long distance or otherwise difficult route, usually out of necessity
> Ex 1: Man, this morning I missed the bus and so I had to huff it all the way to school!
> Ex 2: The waterfall was deep in the jungle, halfway up the mountain where no roads go and so if the tourists wanted to see the waterfall then they had to huff it up the trail.

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Standing in the cold, Jack felt afraid again. Therewere big paw prints in the moonlit snow all aroundthe house. The wolves were here, said Kathleen. Perhaps we should go back inside, said Teddy. No, said Kathleen. We must walk with Jack andAnnie back

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HUFFFF, HUFFFF, HUFFFFF... With each breathfrom the Frost Giant, a blast of cold wind sweptthrough the hollow. Jack trembled. He felt chilled to the bone. HUFFFF,HUFFFF, HUFFFFF.... The giant's breathing grew louder and stronger. Jack squeezed his ey

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Hello again.At the offices of Tip Top Trading things are a bit strange after Tom walked stormed out in a huff after realising that Anna was never going to marry him. 你好,又见面了。Tip Top Trading办公室里的情况变得有点不对劲,汤

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We've got a bunch of poles missing, said my husband *in a huff, as he got in his car to go to a meeting. He had been looking in the storage area above our garage for tents, and all that goes with them. We needed the tents because nine boys had come o

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When a man in Macon, Ga. , came upon a wild dog attacking a young boy, he quickly grabbed the animal and throttled it with his two hands. A reporter saw the incident, congratulated the man and told hi

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学英语单词
Akanthou
all water
alternating-current converter
aminosalicylate
amphipodan
Auterive
avoid curve
ballsiest
Beyond War
chamberers
coal resources exploration
colaprete
commercial activity
condemn sb to exile
copper mica chalcophyllite
diet liver
differential permeability
dignotions
dissolvant
downstages
dredging sump
drumlin
dyslalia
eisfeld
elevator pitch
Emmaste
enantioseparate
enzymic synthesis
extranuclear electron
featheredged coping
fetch a box on the ears
five men shifting defense
formation level
Gaspereau, L.
gelatinous marrow
General Operator's Certificate
genus Polygala
goalkickings
graphite particles
gross savings
high gain operational amplifier
honorary trusts
hookeria nipponensis(besch.)broth
hoolian
input/output device controller
intrinsic inpedance
ionic acidity
iron halogenide
Izki
jean laffites
Koehn L.
laundered money
Louis the Quarreller
Lugg, River
lumbar punctures
marine microbial ecology
melanogogues
mining radiation hazard
misconstructions
non-rebreathers
oil discharging by gravity flow
owambo
partition capacitance
pellet receiver
plate mo(u)lding
precision measuring microscope
protein rich
provision of law
quad word
reduced join
reevoking
remember doing sth
right balanced functor
roleau
round wood screw
Saint Michael and Saint George
sematophyllum demissum
sepsis nitens
shareholding equity
soft-center steel mouldboard
Sokoke
solid-head buttress dam
solutionist
spice plaster
strychnine sulfate
subbottom depth recorder
surface texture
tec tek
teep
temporarily surplus fund
the mother and father of
trachoma bodles
tripod landing gear
unpassible
use of water
volokh
Weller, Thomas Huckle
Wingom
woven mattress
X/Open
yamin
zero-order hold