wind-bag
Example Sentences
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Another wind-bag encircling the bottom of the air-chamber serves as a rudder, and lateral fins or wings give stability to the balloon about its longer axis.
From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch
A Norwegian witch once boasted of sinking a vessel by opening a wind-bag she possessed.
From A History of Nursery Rhymes by Percy B. Green
By my soul, Nick, you are the maddest wind-bag I have ever heard.
From The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson
This babble of cruelty is veriest wind-bag humanity, and, logically, has not a leg to stand upon.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
They gape round him while he twangs and screeches, the wind-bag!
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
