wind-bag

Example Sentences

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You were brave with the old princess and the lad her son, but with a knight you are a wind-bag.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

This unexpected response rather pricks the wind-bag of the man's zeal.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

The book had great success, but of what Mr. Carlyle calls the "wind-bag" nature.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

Is the inscription incomplete if we do not chisel beneath it, "A wind-bag pricked by Death"?

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William

The first two, I was glad to find, were hardly necessary, as anything in the shape of the British, or, worse still, the Irish wind-bag, did not appear to exist amongst the members.

From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry)