Every cloud from a ripe puffball consists of thousands of spores started on the wings of the wind for an unknown journey.
"Seed Dispersal"
William J. Beal
Bill's idea was to share with those districts the honor of his commissary-generalship; but Captain Wells crushed the plan like a dried puffball.
"Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories"
John Fox, Jr.
As he set foot on O'Connell bridge a puffball of smoke plumed up from the parapet.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce