Then came the little drummers, and those who write without giving their names-that is to say, whose grease is imposed on people for blacking; then there were the executioners, and the Puffers of bad wares.
"The Sand-Hills of Jutland"
Hans Christian Andersen
The approbation of Paris is indispensable, and the publishers of the capital, assisted by their paid corps of Puffers and detractors, are sufficiently powerful to prevent that potent public, to whom all affect to defer, from judging for itself.
"Recollections of Europe"
J. Fenimore Cooper
I can hear the Puffers!
"The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City"
Laura Lee Hope