wind-bag

Example Sentences

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It's gold," Peters yelled in answer—"gold, you old wind-bag!

From Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush by Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton)

A schooner is a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with at least two masts and four sails—mainsail, foresail, jib, and the staysail generally called a wind-bag.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry

Thus, in time, he had acquired a reputation for being unreliable and a wind-bag, with the result that skippers were chary of engaging him.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon

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 Rotch, A. Lawrence

And that old wind-bag sat near us and watched us—watched me.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James